Road infrastructures

Ukraine

Should Ukraine take Chinese cash for its huge roads upgrade project?

As talks with the International Monetary Fund stall, is it a good idea for China to fill Ukraine's funding vacuum?

30/09/2021

World

Spain wants to turn all public highways into toll paying roads by 2024

The government in Madrid says every driver should pay for their own usage of the motorways, as opposed to relying on public money for their upkeep. Under the new plans, drivers would have pay to use all of Spain's motorways, as well as other national and regional roads.

10/05/2021

Climate

‘Gas is over’: EU bank chief calls for end to fossil fuel investment

But critics have said that the European Investment Bank needs to get its house in order first.

22/01/2021

Earth News

Recycled roads will be made out of old tyres and building waste

1 billion scrap tyres are produced globally every year. Now researchers are blending them together to make roads.

03/08/2020

World

Parts of Genoa bridge lacked maintenance for 25 years — prosecutor

On the anniversary of the Genoa bridge collapse, an expert has told Euronews that maintaining similar older, longer bridges is "not easy" and expensive.

14/08/2019

Czech Republic

Road Trip Day 43 Brno: Czech transport infrastructure 'way behind'

The lack of a decent road system is hampering economic development, according to the people Euronews spoke to on the latest day of its road trip ahead of the European elections. Since 2000, the Czechs have built only 300km of new highways.

15/05/2019

Smart Regions

How Greece turned a deadly road into one of the safest in the country

In partnership with the European Commission

Discover how one of the most dangerous road sections in Greece became one of the safest highways in the country. The construction of the three new tunnels between Thessaloniki and Athens, the so-called Tempi Tunnels, included 25 km of motorway, 11 km of tunnels and the largest road tunnel

18/04/2019

Romania

Here's why a Romanian businessman built the world's shortest highway

The world's shortest highway isn't in Australia, as the internet would tell you but in Romania, near the city of Suceava. A businessman in northeastern Romania has built the world's shortest highway — measuring 1 metre — in protest against the lack of road infrastructure in the region

15/03/2019

Europe

The Brief: time change, EU-US warming ties, and sanctions extension

In this edition: we look at how proposed seasonal time change could cause chaos for airlines, the EU gets its diplomatic relations boost.

05/03/2019

Italy

Genoa bridge demolition begins

Four months after the collapse that cost 43 lives and disrupted an entire region's cross-border transport, Italian engineers prepare to destroy and rebuild.

16/12/2018

Turkey

Pavement collapses in Turkey, swallowing two women

In Turkey, two women disappeared in a cloud of dirt after the sidewalk on which they were walking collapsed.

26/10/2018

Italy

Major bridge in central Italy closed over safety fears

The bridge was inspected following the deaths of 43 people when an earthquake brought down the Morandi bridge in Genoa in August.

20/09/2018

Italy

Arthritic Autostradas: Italy's motorway network under fire

A cash cow for investors but too often a choked nightmare for users...and potentially dangerous warn critics after the Bologna bridge tragedy.

12/09/2018

Italy

Families evacuated after Genoa bridge collapse move into new flats

The regional governor of Liguria handed keys to some of the families who have still been unable to retrieve their belongings from their damaged houses.

20/08/2018

United Kingdom

This drone can fill in potholes with 3-D printed materials

Potholes are a costly problem for authorities and drivers. Could this be the solution?

04/07/2018

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Road collapses in southwest China

A road in southwest China's Sichuan Province partially collapsed on Sunday, sending its retaining walls to the ground.

01/07/2018