The slow lane: India’s road-building efforts hit bumps
India’s rutted, potholed roads are the bane of many a traveller, not to mention its entire logistics systems. In a country where many reforms are highly contentious and controversial, Indians are...
View ArticlePoland’s fast road to growth (and Berlin)
Electronic highway billboards usually confine their information to grim news about traffic jams and road temperatures, but on Thursday those on the road leading out of Warsaw had an altogether happier...
View ArticleColombia builds roads, $20bn’s worth
Last year, Antonio Navarro Wolff, former leader of the M-19 guerrilla movement turned Colombian politician, told Luis Fernando Andrade, the current head Colombia’s new national infrastructure agency,...
View ArticleThink potholes in NY are bad? You haven’t been to Hungary
I read the news today, Oh boy 200 hundred holes in roads in Hungary, Unlike Blackburn, these holes are not so small, They’ve had to map them all, Enough to drive Generali up the wall. (Apologies to...
View ArticleMumbai’s potholes: going nowhere
For four months every year, from June to September, it rains in Mumbai. The downpours don’t come as a surprise. It’s called the monsoon. And yet every year, just as predictably, potholes are battered...
View ArticleIndia: 3 big reasons why the elections don’t matter
All questions in India today seem to have the same answer. Everything, it seems, depends on the results of the upcoming general election. So it’s refreshing to find someone saying that – in some ways –...
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