Neighbourhoods are often sundered by motorways, canals and railway tracks.
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"My mum doesn't drive on motorways," was the immediate response.
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Kier also operated the Highways England smart motorways program with Carillion.
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Mobile-phone reception is often poor and there are no motorways.
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In Mini Motorways, the city's traffic problems are in your hands.
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Across the region, motorways closed, and roofs and telephone lines collapsed.
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They have been blockading motorways across Greece for over three weeks.
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It also has a concessions business, which serves airports, railways and motorways.
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Hundreds of older drivers turn the wrong way into motorways every year.
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Yet in Europe motorways, railway lines and waterways criss-cross the continent.
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Most of this is "cohesion" funding for poorer countries (think motorways in Poland).
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He will announce proposals to eliminate regulations that keep driverless cars off motorways.
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The car punches through traffic, Zone 1 opening out into motorways and flyovers.
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TomTom has 70 on motorways and major roads in Europe and North America.
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The contract refers to ceding the management of the motorways, not their ownership.
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Store footfall fell 47 percent that day as protesters blocked motorways, sparking major logjams.
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These are often used to build, for example, motorways, bridges or sewage treatment plants.
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Bolivia has a $10bn Chinese credit line to spend on motorways and hydroelectric dams.
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One of San Juan's major motorways, Espreso Las Americas, was forced to close down.
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In what he called a "citizens' revolution", he invested in schools, hospitals and motorways.
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The British firm also worked alongside Carillion on the Highways England smart motorways program.
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Checkpoints will be installed on motorways, toll booths, and at airports and train stations.
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When I first came here, transport was inconvenient, with no motorways or asphalt roads.
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Others have died in fires in refugee camps or been hit by lorries on motorways.
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For tourists, motorways and chain-run service stations have long since taken over that role.
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Tailbacks on motorways in Kent in 2015 were caused by problems in Calais, not Dover.
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Farmers, who have been sporadically blocking motorways for days, have threatened to escalate their action.
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The Hymer brand is a familiar sight on European motorways during the summer holiday season.
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Most autonomous systems are being designed for motorways, for manoeuvres such as accelerating and braking.
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Checkpoints on motorways, toll booths, train stations, and airports are also expected to be introduced.
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They point to government resistance to introducing a speed limit on all of German motorways.
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The dispute could lead to the loss of Atlantia's lucrative concession to run Italy's motorways.
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They point to government resistance to introducing a speed limit on all of German motorways.
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Plans for a new line were mooted in 1971, but the government invested in motorways instead.
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The university is conveniently close to a couple of motorways, and ten minutes from the airport.
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As mayor of Mexico City from 2000 to 2005, he focused on motorways and local pensions.
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Autostrade, which operates 3,000 kilometers of motorways in Italy, accounts for 66 percent of Atlantia's revenues.
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That prompted sometimes violent protests which continued this week with the blocking of motorways in Catalonia.
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Germany's state governments are responsible for everything from schools and motorways to crime and some welfare provision.
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Old-style gangs worry about shipping drugs along motorways and across borders, both areas of federal responsibility.
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Affordable driverless cars that can handle both city driving and motorways safely are a long way off.
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The next decade will still see new railways, ports and motorways being built, often with Chinese money.
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Different modes of transport will be introduced to make this happen, including new motorways and train lines.
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Because the races were on television here about 259 o'clock in the morning, the motorways were empty.
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Essentials drying up, travellers stranded, motorways gridlocked: these things bring down governments and undermine faith in democratic politics.
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Its main concession, BCR — comprised of 12 motorways covering 1,014 km of toll roads — will end in 2035.
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There were long tailbacks on motorways, and in southern Baden-Wuerttemberg buses and local trains stayed in depots.
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AROUND FIVE in the morning is the most lethal time on China's motorways, says a transport-industry veteran.
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Their investment in a radial network of high-speed trains and motorways was seen in Catalonia as favouring Madrid.
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There is talk of stockpiling food and medical supplies and requisitioning parking space for lorries along motorways in Kent.
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"Smart motorways", which were first deployed in 2006, use the hard shoulder as an extra lane at busy times.
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Firms' stocks of unsold goods are starting to shrink, and the number of lorries on motorways has stopped falling.
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Built by the Romans, this road was the only link between London and Edinburgh before modern motorways took over.
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The Chancellor George Osborne has promised to introduce legislation that will allow autonomous vehicles on British motorways by 2020.
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India's Supreme Court banned the sale of alcohol within 500 metres of motorways, a shock to the country's hospitality industry.
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As the bus made its way from motorways to rural roads, grim posters championing a "no repeal" vote were unavoidable.
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The country has long devoted a large share of its GDP to maintaining its decaying avenues, motorways, tunnels and bridges.
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Taiwan's National Freeway Bureau requested Wednesday Niantic make game-play off limits on the country's highways, motorways and rest stops.
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The demonstrations were largely rural or at a small-town level with demonstrators blocking roads, motorways, roundabouts and fuel depots.
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Watch as Daugherty obsessively mouths off facts and statistics about such juicy topics as the state of the county's motorways.
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But they are decrepit, and unlike the South's many sleek motorways, the North's roads are dire: just 3% are paved.
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In Germany, where motorists expect to drive powerful cars on motorways with no speed limits, any restrictions will be unpopular.
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""From the makers of Mini Metro, Mini Motorways is a game about drawing the roads that drive a growing city.
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These proceeds in turn were committed to new motorways and other new infrastructure in the Illawarra region south of Sydney.
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The extreme measures, announced on Saturday, prompted residents to flee the city in their droves via rail stations and motorways.
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In many of the largest economies, such as China, Japan, France and India, the majority of the motorways have tolls.
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On Friday, Atlantia reported a 4 percent rise in full-year revenues, helped by higher traffic on its motorways and airports.
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Under government plans, two motorways and an airport in the south of England will be used as car parks if needed.
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Brisa operates 1,628 km of highway in Portugal in a network of 17 motorways, 6 complementary routes and 6 national roads.
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The caterer, which runs restaurants and coffee shops along motorways and in airports around the world, confirmed its guidance for 2019.
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Japan's second-ranked carmaker by vehicle sales said its ProPilot can drive a vehicle on single-lane motorways and navigate congestion.
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If you can't get enough of Mini Metro, its sequel Mini Motorways on Apple Arcade applies the same premise to roads.
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Infrastructure would be a top priority, he added, with motorways set to connect Romania to the capitals of all neighboring states.
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Ghosn said driverless cars are already a reality as the first models offering single-lane, autonomous driving on motorways already exist.
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The government has plans to turn two motorways and an airport in the south of England into lorry parks if needed.
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There are already two motorways, the G21989 and the G24, that lead to Yanqing (visitors to the Great Wall often use them).
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Vinci has been expanding into faster-growing and more profitable concessions such as airports and motorways, as well as in energy engineering.
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But sophisticated systems for hands-free driving on motorways, and for automated parking, are already available on a number of manufacturers' models.
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They also had to deal with fast-shifting control of cities and major motorways that were their pathway out of the country.
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ITALIAN TAX POLICE SAY ARRESTS OF ATLANTIA'S UNITS OFFICIALS MADE IN PROBE ON ALLEGED FALSE REPORTS ON SAFETY OF SEVERAL MOTORWAYS VIADUCTS
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"After the completion of these projects, the total length of (new) motorways will reach 2,000 km," Sharif's office said in a statement.
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It includes the construction of motorways, railways and power plants, and will also make inroads into sectors such as communication and education.
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There have been 49 collisions at the junction — where two motorways and three main roads join together — over the past two years.
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"Abertis plans to sell several minority stakes in motorways in France, Britain and Colombia," said the source, who is familiar with Abertis strategy.
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EVERY winter, northern Europeans bound for ski holidays zip insouciantly through the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany on motorways that are free of charge.
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By the end of August thousands of refugees were squeezing on to westbound trains in Hungary and trudging along Austrian motorways towards Munich.
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By value, these contracts are dwarfed by those won by big construction companies, such as Carillion, for building hospitals, motorways and the like.
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PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The battle over how and where Europeans charge their electric cars is expanding from the continent's cities to its motorways.
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Service delivery protests take many forms—roads, even motorways, can be blocked for hours, sometimes by burning tyres; buildings can become targets, too.
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"Mini Motorways" is a new game from the creators of "Mini Metro" allowing you to design your own highway maps across a city.
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"Surrounded by 50 billion lorries, motorways and BMWs, he realizes that it doesn't matter how many electric cars we acquire," Malena tells us.
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Atlantia said on Thursday tolls on motorways managed by its Autostrade per l'Italia unit are to rise by 210 percent as of Jan.
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LONDON (Reuters) - At least four people died when several vehicles including a truck crashed on one of Britain's main motorways on Saturday, police said.
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"Senegal has launched big projects, whether it's the regional train, motorways but also electricity projects, construction of a university, health and agriculture," Ba said.
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Cabs formed blockades at the entrance to motorways as other protesters said they would drive slowly through the capital all day, creating massive jams.
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Driving on motorways is much easier to automate than city travel, as everyone is going in the same direction at high but regular speeds.
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The 5-Star Movement, one of two parties in Italy's governing coalition, has threatened to revoke Atlantia's licence to run motorways around the country.
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Across Portugal, the fires have destroyed hundreds of homes, shut major motorways for hours and caused damage worth over 200 million euros ($225.58 million).
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The previous government, which lost the latest general election this summer, takes credit for mega energy projects, shiny airports and new motorways and seaports.
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It is intended to evoke the hours spent on motorways seeking out parties in fields, the location only disclosed shortly before the gathering began.
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Legal rules govern air quality standards and the air quality around Heathrow is known to be low given the airport's proximity to two motorways.
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Mini Metro was a game about connecting train lines across a city, and the follow-up Mini Motorways does the same thing for roads.
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Like its predecessor, Mini Motorways can be both soothing and stressful; soothing when your careful plans work out, and stressful when everything goes wrong.
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Its shares were up 3.8 percent after it hiked its dividend and forecast higher revenue for 2017 and more traffic on its French motorways.
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Germany's 16 state governments run everything from schools and police forces to motorways and health systems; their leaders are big figures in their own right.
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The company, which runs restaurants and coffee shops along motorways and in airports around the world, generates around half of its sales in North America.
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Protests continued throughout Wednesday, with the country's high-speed rail network suffering delays, while motorways throughout Catalonia and many of Barcelona's main thoroughfares remain closed.
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Using motorways and trains, city gangs have expanded their reach far and wide, beyond the commuter belt, from Devon and Gloucestershire to Humberside and Scotland.
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Michigan is to work with Britain on the development of rules for self-driving cars and technology for smart motorways, the Financial Times reported Monday.
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It ramped up a campaign to rename stadiums and motorways after Alexander the Great and his father Philip of Macedon, and erected statues to them.
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The EBRD's 15-year loan, including a three-year grace period, will be paid to the regions' motorways companies, Bosnia's Finance Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda said.
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In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Carlo Bertazzo said the priority was to share with the government a program aimed at upgrading the motorways.
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You have a few other ways to control the flow of traffic — including bridges, motorways, and traffic lights — but eventually things will get very busy.
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On motorways, often a truck will abruptly swerve out into the fast lane to overtake another truck, its size operating as a kind of authority.
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There were no malls, no motorways, no skyscrapers, no billboards; the only hoardings were pictures of "martyrs" who gave up their lives to defend the revolution.
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Polish General Director for National Roads and Motorways signed contracts worth 42 billion zlotys ($10.6 billion) co-financed by the European Union's budget for 2014-2020.
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To counter signs of weakness in its construction business, the company has been expanding into faster growing and more profitable concessions such as airports and motorways.
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Di Maio reiterated that the government is aiming at nationalizing toll motorways, which are currently managed by Autostrade per l'Italia, controlled by Milan-listed Atlantia (ATL.MI).
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MI will raise prices at its restaurants in U.S. airports and motorways to offset rising labour costs and boost profitability, CEO Gianmario Tondato said on Thursday.
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The expansion of the UK's motorways and the new Heathrow runway show that cleaning up our air isn't a priority of the British government, she says.
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Refuelling conventional petrol and diesel cars on motorways has long been the domain of the oil companies, which typically have their own networks of filling stations.
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Motorways sales fell 2.9 percent to 438.7 millions euros; other channels rose 16 percent to 110.9 millions boosted by the acquisition of restaurant chain Le CroBag.
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British traffic engineers employ a similar concept on "smart motorways" which use variable speed limits to keep everyone moving smoothly, even if it's at a slower pace.
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Thousands of farmers have been blockading motorways across the country for three weeks over reforms, which call on them to pay higher social security contributions and taxes.
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Go to where unloved tower-blocks loom over empty streets, where the roar of motorways echoes in patches of woodland, where the somewheres mingle with the anywheres.
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Under the government's plans, known as Operation Brock, Manston airport some 20 miles (32 km)to the north and parts of two motorways could become lorry parks.
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The Italian caterer said on Thursday it had signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with bakery chain Panera Bread to develop outlets in U.S. airports and motorways.
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More than 700 firefighters and 90 aircraft were mobilised to tackle the fires in the Gard, some of which caused sections of motorways to be temporarily closed.
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On Monday Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, leader of the ruling coalition's anti-establishment 5 Star Movement, said the "only solution" was to nationalize Autostrade's motorways.
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However funding could be a central problem in Germany, as well as in Europe and beyond, particularly along motorways which do not fall under any particular municipality.
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The Spanish motorway operator and Brookfield Brazil Motorways Holding currently own 69.26 percent of Arteris through Participes, in which they hold 51 percent and 49 percent respectively.
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Atlantia, which operates Rome's two airports and around 5,000 km of toll motorways, has long been trying to lure its Spanish rival to the negotiating table, sources said.
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Motorways, train stations and streets in downtown Auckland and Wellington were eerily silent on Thursday morning as people stayed indoors, while office towers and shopping arcades were shuttered.
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Atlantia is waiting for a reply from the Italian government over proposals it has made to modernise the motorways it runs, the group's chief executive said on Friday.
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Finance minister George Osborne announced plans in March to test vehicles on motorways and said the government would bring forward proposals to remove regulatory barriers to the technology.
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His government has been quick to blame Autostrade per l'Italia, the private sector company in charge of the country's motorways, accusing it of failing to adequately maintain the bridge.
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Catalonia pays more into the central kitty than it gets back, but its transport systems have been neglected while Madrid has spiffy metro lines and a surfeit of motorways.
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The crowd scenes have been continental, not national: refugees trudging along motorways, pro- and anti-migration demonstrations, the anti-establishment gilets jaunes protests and, most recently, environmentalist school strikes.
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Many of them congregate by motorways or along the rail line that goes though the Channel Tunnel, attempting to hide in the back of trucks or stowaway on trains.
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The government is building lorry parks along motorways and also plans to use an airport in southern England to cope with any tailbacks at ports on the English Channel.
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The first of these is called "Traffic Jam Assist" which will help the driver with "steering, braking and acceleration in heavily congested traffic situations on motorways," according to Ford.
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I was told that all the autonomous driving will initially be limited to England's major motorways; everywhere else, the steering must still be done manually, including within London proper.
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Atlantia, which operates Rome's two airports and around 5,000 km of toll motorways, has long been trying to lure its Spanish rival to the negotiating table, the sources said.
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The Commission, the EU's executive, said it had approved in April an 8.5 billion euro investment plan for Italian motorways, including in the Genoa region, under EU state aid rules.
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The result would be huge delays at Dover and other ports, with queues of trucks backing up for many miles on motorways, just-in-time production massively disrupted, and more.
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AMCL's rating reflects Fitch's view that support would be forthcoming from Associated Motorways Private Limited (AMW), which owns 90% of AMCL, given the finance company's strategic importance to the parent.
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The group currently operates Rome's airports through Aeroporti di Roma unit and manages 5,000 km (3,107 miles) of motorways in Italy and Latin America through its division Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI).
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LONDON — Driverless cars will begin trials on local roads in the UK this year, motorways the next, and could be widely used by 2020, if Chancellor George Osborne has his way.
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French catering group Elior expects bids for its Areas unit, which focuses on catering in railways and motorways, by the end of January, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters.
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To counter a slump in French construction, Vinci has expanded into faster growing and more profitable concessions such as airports, notably abroad and in motorways as well as in energy engineering.
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In July, Nissan launched a suite of semi-autonomous driving functions in one of its Japanese minivan models which enables the vehicle to drive on single lane motorways and navigate congestion.
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In 2015 the Highways Agency, which manages motorways, was converted into a free-standing company owned by the state (renamed Highways England), meaning it has secure funding for the foreseeable future.
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Separately, France's Vinci, which holds stakes in two major Greek toll motorways and operates one of the world's longest multi-span cable-stayed bridges, is considering participating in new concession projects.
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Atlantia, which runs more than 5,000 kms in toll motorways, said the total equity value for the whole of its Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) unit was 14.8 billion euros ($16 billion).
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Autogrill, which runs food outlets at some of the world's busiest airports and motorways, tweaked its guidance for 24.1 earnings on Thursday due to subdued business in Europe.
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PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - French transport minister Elisabeth Borne said she would meet with motorways operators on Monday to discuss ways to help consumers' spending power, as anti-government protests continue.
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Abbasi's government is spending billions of dollars on upgrading Pakistan's transport infrastructure and ending energy blackouts, with freshly paved motorways as well as dams and power plants popping up across the country.
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Greek farmers have been intermittently blocking roads into Bulgaria and motorways across Greece for about five weeks, protesting pension reforms that will triple their social security contributions over the next four years.
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Finance minister George Osborne will announce plans on Wednesday to test vehicles on motorways and say the government will bring forward proposals to remove regulatory barriers to the technology, the Treasury said.
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Aston Martin is even considering flying in car components if there are snarl-ups on motorways to and from Dover, prompting many, including Bentley, to consider other ports to help avoid delays.
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Farmers who have been blocking motorways across the country on and off for days in protest at planned to cut tax breaks for farming as well as pensions remained defiant on Wednesday.
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The government is building lorry parks along motorways and also plans to use an airport in the south of England to cope with any tail-backs at ports on the English Channel.
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Castellucci also said that the group, which operates Rome's two airports and around 5,000 kms of toll motorways, would not put at risk its dividend policy for the sake of a deal.
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"For Ferrovial, this would be an unconventional investment, so this highlights Ferrovial's difficulties in finding good investment opportunities in its traditional segments of motorways and airport infrastructure, in our view," Haitong said.
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Giancarlo Giorgetti, undersecretary in the prime minister's office and a leading member of the League party, said the plan would include motorways, bridges and viaducts but also public buildings such as schools.
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Adriana Herrera, a children's rights expert at Colombia's inspector general's office, said growing numbers of teenage girls from Colombia and Venezuela were working as prostitutes along motorways in parts of the country.
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The government has already moved to strip Autostrade of its concessions after a viaduct on one of its motorways collapsed in the port city of Genoa two weeks ago, killing 43 people.
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The city's piped cooking gas, its glitzy metro sprinkled with avant-garde art, its elevated motorways and its skyscrapers of public housing were examples of modernity in the neglected and volatile continent.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Eight people died when two lorries and a minibus collided on one of Britain's main motorways early on Saturday at the start of a busy bank holiday weekend, police said.
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Sharif's government is spending billions of dollars on upgrading Pakistan's transport infrastructure and ending energy blackouts, with freshly-paved motorways as well as dams and power plants popping up across the country.
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The strike began as a protest against rising petrol prices, but thousands of Brazilians have supported the drivers by taking to the streets and blocking motorways to air a wide range of grievances.
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Before Euro Garages arrived, there had long been plenty of retail forecourts on motorways, allowing travellers to fill up their cars and buy a stale sandwich and cold coffee at the same time.
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Britain imports around 60 percent of its food by the beginning of November - just the time that delays caused by a no-deal Brexit could be clogging up ports and motorways, Rycroft said.
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It survived a fierce price war among new market entrants to boost its market share in Germany to more than 90 percent, making its bright green coaches a common sight on German motorways.
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Motorways and freeways are the low-hanging fruit of autonomous driving; everyone is moving in one direction at the same relative speed, and there are no pesky pedestrians to get in the way.
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They'll do raised cycle tracks when speeds don't go above 2200 kph (153 mph), and then on highways or motorways, it will be an adjacent pathway, again with that trademark red, but completely separated.
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From Romania to Poland, Belgium and Estonia, pig farmers demanding compensation and stricter controls on wild boar have variously obstructed government vets, blocked motorways with tractors and threatened to dump animal dung on parliament.
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The trucks did not travel in platoon for the entire journey — only on motorways when traffic conditions were "normal" — and each vehicle, even those following the lead truck, had a human driver on hand.
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The company, which has a market value of around 6.2 billion euros, has been a prolific buyer of infrastructure businesses, bidding for anything from motorways and airports in countries including Britain, Germany and Italy.
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The government has already moved to revoke the concession from Autostrade, controlled by infrastructure group Atlantia , after a viaduct on one of its motorways collapsed in the port city of Genoa, killing 43 people.
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Large chunks of his new book, "Connectography" (an apparent portmanteau of "connective cartography"), describe the infrastructure that knits the world together: container ships twice the length of an aircraft-carrier, motorways traversing entire continents.
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Vinci has expanded into faster growing and more profitable concessions such as foreign airports and motorways, as well as engineering deals in the energy sector, to counter weakness in its domestic French construction business.
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MILAN, March 12 (Reuters) - Italy's Autogrill, which operates restaurants at airports, motorways and rail stations, said on Thursday it was cancelling its annual dividend because the spreading coronavirus outbreak made its outlook too unpredictable.
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Petrol station operators also said they would start to close down, with pumps on motorways shutting from Wednesday evening, because it had become impossible to guarantee health and safety standards and keep businesses going.
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Beijing's cash is building motorways and power plants to alleviate Pakistan's energy shortages, but Karachiites hope it could also modernize their city at a time when traffic appears to be spiraling out of control.
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Extra revenues from greater traffic volumes on motorways will mean lower tolls with a mechanism of premiums and penalties to boost efficiency, Il Messaggero said, citing a reform drawn up by the sector's regulator.
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Thousands of French protesters hit out at higher fuel taxes and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies in demonstrations across motorways on Saturday, sparking major logjams and several accidents, including a fatality at one road blockade.
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Kremlin politics and the six-lane motorways of Moscow may feel a world away in the Nenets Autonomous Region, 1,000 miles (1,570 km) northeast of the capital, where temperatures can drop to -40 degrees Celsius.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said it will begin trialing driverless cars on motorways for the first time in 2017, as it moves toward its goal of allowing autonomous cars to take to the streets by 2020.
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Under a thick, black cloud at 3pm, the lights flickered on in São Paulo's skyscrapers; on the motorways brake lights started to glow in the city's bumper-to-bumper traffic, and many Paulistanos were worried.
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Vinci has been expanding into faster-growing and more profitable concessions such as airports and motorways, as well as engineering projects for the energy industry, in order to counter weakness elsewhere in the construction sector.
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Albert Cobo, mayor for much of the 2000s, pursued the building of motorways by razing black neighbourhoods, sowing the seeds for the race riots in 23 which marked, for many, the beginning of Detroit's decline.
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To counter weakness in its domestic French construction business, Vinci has expanded into faster growing and more profitable concessions such as at foreign airports and motorways, as well as engineering deals in the energy sector.
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ROME (Reuters) - The Italian state will have to take over the country's motorways if companies who have concessions are not able to do the job properly, deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio said on Thursday.
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Under a deal with the government, Tank & Rast, owned by a consortium led by insurer Allianz, will equip its roughly 400 service stations along German motorways with fast charging stations by the end of 2017.
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A room-filling sculpture of a Liverpool highway overpass, and a hallway illuminated by sallow yellow lamps used to illuminate British motorways, transform the galleries of PS1 into memory palaces of his northern English childhood.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Firefighters backed by over a dozen aircraft battled forest blazes raging in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia since Thursday, cutting motorways and forcing the evacuation of several villages, regional authorities said on Friday.
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Vinci, which added London's Gatwick airport to its portfolio last year after buying a majority stake, has been focusing on concessions in this field and in motorways, as well as engineering projects in the energy sector.
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The man who left the Socialist Party after three decades in 2009 to pursue a tougher brand of socialism wants to nationalize key sectors like airports and motorways, create a public banking giant and legalize cannabis.
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Galliford's chief executive said it was no longer chasing such large, fixed-price contracts and was instead bidding for public sector work with so-called framework agreements in areas such as water, motorways, defense and airports.
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The man who left the Socialist Party after three decades in 2009 to pursue a tougher brand of socialism wants to nationalise key sectors like airports and motorways, create a public banking giant and legalise cannabis.
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Its former presidential candidate, Norbert Hofer, called for "higher tax on motorways for foreigners," and a regional politician, Gottfried Waldhäusl, promoted "freedom of choice" with a picture of a cup of coffee beside a burning cigarette.
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The company, whose green and red trucks are a fixture on British motorways, had delayed its interim results for months causing shares to be suspended last August following the uncovering of mistakes in its 2018 accounts.
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PARIS/MILAN, Jan 11 (Reuters) - French catering group Elior expects bids for its Areas unit, which focuses on catering in railways and motorways, by the end of January, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters.
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The group, which is controlled by the Benetton family, said revenue at its food outlets in airports around the world rose 5.1% on a like-for-like basis while the ones along motorways were almost flat.
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The Italian government is pressing ahead with measures to make it easier and less costly to revoke concessions to operate motorways, even though one party in the ruling coalition opposes this, top officials said on Tuesday.
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Seven people were killed and nearly 200 wounded after a police bid to disperse protesters in Islamabad failed on Saturday, spurring demonstrators wielding sticks and iron rods to block key roads and motorways in other cities.
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MILAN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Italy will review concessions on the management of water, television and telecom, besides that for Autostrade per l'Italia to manage part of its motorways, the deputy prime minister told the newspaper Il Corriere.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands of French protesters hit out at higher fuel taxes and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies in demonstrations across motorways on Saturday, sparking major logjams and several accidents, including a fatality at one road blockade.
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Atlantia's concession to operate around 3,000 km of motorways, about half the Italian network, has been under threat from Salvini's coalition partner 5-Star since a bridge it operated in Italy collapsed last year, killing 43 people.
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Media websites featured pictures and video of the havoc: a light airplane was overturned in Stans, wind tore scaffolding from a construction site near Lucerne, and tractor-trailers were blown onto their sides on some major motorways.
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Senegal's economy has boomed since Sall came to power in 2012, propelled by construction of a new airport, motorways and an extension of the electricity grid that has won applause from international donors and the local elite.
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SARAJEVO, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A Bosnian regional motorways company Autoceste FBiH invited bids on Thursday for the construction of two sections of a pan-European north-south highway worth a total of 235 million euros ($269 million).
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Farmers, who face a tripling of social security payments under the current pension plan, have been blockading motorways across Greece for the past three weeks and have threatened to descend on Athens with their tractors on Friday.
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And then there is Glasgow's love of motorways and the destruction and chaos attendant with the building of even more roads in the city, at the same time that other countries are abandoning them and reclaiming land.
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Revoking the concession would be a complicated and expensive process but remains a powerful potential threat that has allowed Rome to step up pressure on Atlantia, which relies on motorways for a third of its core earnings.
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London and Brussels hope to conclude a Brexit agreement by the end of the year, but carmakers are worried that failure to reach a deal could lead to snarl-ups on motorways and at ports, disrupting trade.
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"Expanding the country's road infrastructure and building modern motorways is a key requirement for the integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its economy with the region and strengthening links with western Europe," the EBRD said in a statement.
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Atlantia's concession to operate around 53,000 km of motorways, about half the Italian network, has been under threat from Salvini's coalition partner 5-Star Movement since a bridge it operated in Italy collapsed last year, killing 43 people.
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The group — which manages Rome's airports, a series of motorways in Italy and several roads in Latin America — was also hit hard by the collapse of a bridge in Genoa operated by its motorway unit Autostrade per l'Italia.
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Matthew Robb of Parthenon-EY, a consultancy, thinks that governments should be talking to industry bodies about the potential for mass redundancies and identifying trigger points, such as the installation of sensors on motorways, that might prompt retraining.
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To further support Thailand 4.0 and the economic corridor in particular, a number of public-private partnership scheme infrastructure projects including high-speed and dual-track railways, upgrading intercity motorways, international airports and deep-seaports have been launched.
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The group -- which manages Rome's airports, a series of motorways in Italy and several roads in Latin America -- was also hit hard by the collapse of a bridge in Genoa operated by its motorway unit Autostrade per l'Italia.
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Italy's toll road operators will not be allowed to increase tariffs as planned this year following a request by the government to freeze increases on most of the country's motorways, sources at the Transport Ministry said on Saturday.
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The study showed that areas of suburban sprawl with about 18 homes per hectare - such as poorly designed neighborhoods near motorways, where driving is the only option - had the greatest rates of obesity and lowest rates of exercise.
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The Italian caterer's U.S. unit HMSHost has completed the sale of all the 23 travel centres it operated on Canadian motorways, the company said on Sunday, adding the value of the transaction for HMSHost amounted to $190 million.
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Officials expect a huge uptick in trade between the two countries once Pakistan's Arabian Sea port of Gwadar is functional and motorways are finished to allow goods to cross the Himalayas to and from China's western Xinjiang province.
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But the sweeping cuts have triggered outrage among groups including lawyers and farmers, who have blocked motorways with their tractors for the past two weeks and were planning to shift their protests to central Athens on Feb. 12.
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On Monday, Greek authorities urged residents of a coastal region west of Athens to abandon their homes as another wildfire burned ferociously, closing one of Greece's busiest motorways, halting trains and sending plumes of smoke over the capital.
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Italian regional court Tar has annulled the decree with which Italy had suspended the toll increase triggered in 2014-2018 period by SAT, one of the Italian motorways managed by Autostrade per l'Italia, the ruling showed on Thursday.
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Earlier this year, it launched a consultation on changes to insurance rules and motoring regulations to allow driverless cars to be used by 2020 and said it would allow such vehicles to be tested on motorways from next year.
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But near the borders of Austria or Switzerland they must pull over to buy stickers so that they can drive on the Alpine motorways—even as Austrian and Swiss cars zoom in the opposite direction onto Germany's free Autobahn.
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EDINBURGH, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Eight people died and another four were injured when two lorries and a minibus collided on one of Britain's main north-south motorways early on Saturday at the start of a busy bank holiday weekend.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Vinci handed investors a 8.93 percent dividend hike and struck a confident note over its prospects for 2019 despite anti-government "yellow vests" protests that hit traffic on its French motorways in the final quarter of 2018.
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Officials expect a huge uptick in trade between the two nations once Pakistan's Arabian Sea port of Gwadar is functional and work on motorways is finished allowing goods to cross the Himalayas to and from China's western Xinjiang province.
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The scheme was blocked by a massive urban protest, an eruption of the cumulative anguish felt by many locals about runaway development in which dozens of skyscrapers rose and more than 90 other shopping malls sprouted between looping motorways.
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Jaguar Land Rover, maker of Range Rover 4x4s and sportier luxury saloons, will drive the initial models on a new 41-mile (66 km) test route on motorways and urban roads near its headquarters and plants in central England.
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Britain announced plans in March to test cars on motorways and launched a consultation on Monday to change insurance and motoring rules as it pursues plans to allow the public to use driverless cars on the streets by 2020.
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Anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating alleged price agreements regarding road construction projects in the provinces of Carinthia and Styria as well as renovation works on motorways and federal roads between 2008 and 13, daily Der Standard reported on Friday.
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Spanish infrastructure firm Ferrovial on Wednesday posted a 7.4 percent fall in core profit from a year ago, hit by a depreciation in the British pound and falling activity in its building business that offset solid traffic on its motorways.
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Earlier this year, Nissan launched a minivan in Japan which can self-drive on single-lane motorways and navigate congestion, while this month it launched its new gasoline-electric hybrid powertrain in its Note subcompact car for the Japanese market.
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OHL, which builds everything from motorways and gas pipelines to hospitals and hotels, posted a 2153 percent drop in first-half net profit to 3 million euros ($3.4 million), and while its working capital improved, it remained in the red.
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Osborne will also propose spending £15 million ($21.6 million) to create a "connected corridor" from London to Dover to help vehicles communicate wirelessly, and trials of "truck platooning" — automated trucks moving closely to each other on motorways to save space.
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Farmers blocked motorways with their tractors for a fourth week on Tuesday, obstructing traffic at a few crossings on the country's northern borders with Bulgaria and Turkey and were due to shift their action to central Athens on Feb. 12.
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Last week, the firm's boss Ralf Speth warned that the wrong Brexit deal could cost tens of thousands of car jobs and risks production at the firm, especially if there are delays at ports and on motorways due to customs checks.
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ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government will draw up new rules for the concession of the nation's motorways, obliging the company running the toll highways to reinvest most of their profits in renovating the network, Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said on Tuesday.
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Despite Sall's popularity, some Senegalese question whether a high-speed train, new motorways and a swanky conference center will benefit average citizens in the former French colony of 15 million people where the average income is less than $200 a month.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Autogrill, which runs restaurants and bars at airports, motorways and railways around the world, is looking at possible acquisitions in related sectors in the next few years, when it will have 22018 billion euros for M&A.
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Kinneir and Calvert's work at Gatwick Airport impressed Sir Colin Anderson, who was at that time the newly-appointed chair of Britain's Ministry of Transport Advisory Committee on Traffic Signs for Motorways—a thoroughly bureaucratic name for a really innovative group.
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BARCELONA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Demonstrators blocked a train station and several motorways in Spain's Catalonia region on Tuesday, a second day of protests over Monday's jailing of nine separatists by the supreme court over their role in a failed secession bid.
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MILAN, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A decision by Fitch Ratings on Wednesday to downgrade Italian infrastructure group Atlantia and its motorways unit Autostrade to "junk" could lead to an early repayment request on 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) of debt, Atlantia said.
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MILAN, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Leading members of Italy's ruling 21-Star Movement have called for Atlantia's motorways unit to be stripped of its concession following the deadly 20.8965 collapse of a bridge it operated in the northern city of Genoa.
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The Milan-based group — which runs food outlets at some of the busiest airports and motorways in the world — said earnings per share (EPS) would grow 20 percent on average between 2016-19, up from a previous estimate of 15 percent.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy published a report on Tuesday into road operator Autostrade per l'Italia's role in last month's deadly bridge collapse, laying out evidence that Rome is expected to use to strip the company of its concessions to run Italian motorways.
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Other programs will seek to strengthen ties between Paris and the surrounding countryside whose fields feed the city, create groups of residents trained to respond in emergencies and lead community events, and transform the Paris ring road and the motorways leading to it.
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The government will launch a plan next month aimed at making Italy's infrastructure safe, Giancarlo Giorgetti, undersecretary in the prime minister's office, said in a newspaper interview, saying it would include motorways, bridges and viaducts but also public buildings such as schools.
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Bucci said the new viaduct would be finished in 12-16 months and added that only companies not involved in the management of motorways could take part in the project, as was already hinted at in a decree recently issued by the government.
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MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - Three managers at Autostrade per l'Italia, and three former managers, were found guilty of manslaughter on Friday over the deaths of 40 people in a 2013 accident on one of the company's motorways, while CEO Giovanni Castellucci was acquitted.
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Ahead of the show, farmers had blocked French motorways to protest both against negotiations between the European Union and Mercosur, a South American trade bloc, that could see more beef imported to France, and against French plans to cut subsidies to disadvantaged farms.
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MADRID, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The Spanish government may to have to take over several bankrupt toll roads, the minister for public works said on Monday, adding that the state's chances of reaching a rescue deal involving the motorways' bank lenders was slim.
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Farmers who have been blocking motorways across the country sporadically for days in protest at plans to cut tax breaks for farming as well as pensions said they would escalate action and bring the country to a standstill unless Tsipras backed down.
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SARAJEVO, June 20 (Reuters) - Bosnian state motorways firm Autoceste FBiH has awarded a 99 million euro ($111.9 million) contract to build part of a pan-European north-south highway to China State Construction Engineering Corp and a consortium including Azerbaijan's Azvirt MMC.
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Urged on by China's president, Xi Jinping, Beijing wants to cap its population at 23 million by 2020, and clear out gritty neighborhoods that do not fit its aspirations to become a spick-and-span capital of monuments, malls and broad motorways.
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The company, which runs food outlets at airports and on motorways, said last year it expected sales to rise on average by 5 to 13 percent a year in the 2016-2019 period net of currency moves and asset sales or acquisitions.
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Atlantia's shares remain 14% below the level seen on the eve of the Genoa bridge collapse, due to concerns over the future of the concession for Autostrade to operate 3,000 km of motorways in Italy, which generates a third of its core profit.
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Temer said in a television interview that protests by truck drivers still parked on motorways should be resolved by Wednesday, though his government still has to deliver on its pledge to cut the price of diesel by 0.46 real ($0.12) per liter.
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Two years ago, an estimated 90,000 Spanish fans traveled to Lisbon for the final — many of them in caravans that clogged the motorways — and while few expected a repeat of that number, the Spanish presence in the city center here was impossible to miss.
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SARAJEVO, July 17 (Reuters) - Five companies, joint ventures and consortia from China, Turkey, Austria and Azerbaijan have submitted bids for the construction of a 100 million euros ($114.66 million) section of a north-to-south highway in Bosnia, a motorways company said on Monday.
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The British automotive industry fears that a disorderly exit from the EU, its biggest export market, could see the imposition of tariffs of up to 10% on finished models and border delays which could snarl up ports and motorways, ruining just-in-time production.
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However, a source close to ACS - whose chairman Florentino Perez also heads Real Madrid soccer club - has told Reuters that its bid has the backing of the Spanish government, which may be reluctant to see Abertis's politically sensitive motorways concessions in Spain fall into foreign hands.
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The group, which operates restaurants and coffee shops along motorways and in airports, reported a negative free cash flow of 104 million euros ($115 million) in the first half of the year, hit by payments for early retirements in Italy and a high level of investments.
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MILAN, June 4 (Reuters) - Italy's Autogrill, which runs restaurants and bars at airports and motorways around the world, expects to grow revenues on average by between 13-5 percent a year in 2018-2021 to reach 5.3 billion euros ($6 billion) at the end of the period.
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"Today it is still largely unclear who will make the necessary investment in the charging infrastructure in cities, housing and along the motorways in the short term, and how these can refinance themselves in the medium and long term," said Jens Haas, managing director automotive at AlixPartners.
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One source close to the matter told Reuters on Thursday that Italy's biggest motorway operator, Autostrade per l'Italia, part of infrastructure group Atlantia, was open to discuss with both petrol station operators and food providers about fixed costs they pay to run their outlets on motorways.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Wedged between a plush new hotel, a series of motorways and the Olympic athletes' village in Rio de Janeiro, a scattering of newly-built whitewashed houses now mark the area that was once the thriving fishing community of Vila Autodromo.
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Italy's government failed to agree on Saturday on a law that would make it easier and less costly to revoke concessions to operate motorways, a sign of division among the ruling parties on how to handle the aftermath of a fatal road bridge collapse last year.
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The group, which manages bar and restaurants on Italian motorways as well as at some of the busiest airports in the world, said on Thursday revenue increased to 1.241 billion euros ($1.35 billion) in the period thanks to a solid growth of its airport business in North America.
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Eiffage, which built the Millau Viaduct in France and took part in the construction of the Sydney Opera House, generates roughly 85 percent of its revenue from contracting operations - which include construction and public works - and the rest from concessions in mainly motorways but also prisons and hospitals.
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The disruption was compounded by the worst flooding in at least 30 years as the Seine river broke its banks in the center of Paris, forcing the closure of a commuter train line and a halt to barge transport on top of massive traffic jams on inundated motorways.
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The Milan-based group - which operates restaurants at airports, motorways and rail stations - said on March 12 that the virus had reduced its revenue by 25 million-30 million euros ($27.5-33 million) from the beginning of the year to the end of the first week of March.
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BERLIN, Dec 19 (Reuters) - CTS Eventim and Kapsch which were due to operate a road toll on German motorways — had it not been blocked by a EU court decision — through a joint venture, will seek damages of around 560 million euros ($622.78 million) from the German state, CTS said.
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Britain is due to leave the world's largest free trade bloc on March 29, but there are concerns over what happens if lawmakers reject May's withdrawal agreement with the European Union in a key vote next month, including possible snarl-ups at ports and motorways that would hit trade.
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For example, by 20403, around a quarter of the truck fleet would need to be electric (compared to less than 1% in the Sustainable Development Scenario), which would require a large number of motorways to be equipped with electrified overhead (catenary) lines, since batteries alone struggle to support long-haul journeys.
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The Milan-based group - which operates restaurants at airports, motorways, rail stations and shopping centres - said on March 12 that the coronavirus outbreak had reduced its revenue by 25 million-13 million euros ($27.5-33 million) from the beginning of the year to the end of the first week of March.
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Construction lobby group Seopan last year estimated that the cost of a nationalisation could be around 5.5 billion euros ($5.84 billion) The Spanish government has been trying to keep the roads open and already appealed one court ruling that would have caused two motorways backed by Abertis, Sacyr and ACS to be liquidated and closed.
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The statement by a local committee of the 5 Star Movement — which has since been taken down from the website, although a cached version and a PDF version can still be found online — was made in opposition to the "Gronda di Genova," a proposed infrastructure project for motorways in Genoa that included improvements to the collapsed bridge.
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"I think the railways and motorways are going to take a long time to get off the ground, because the railways need subsidies for a start," says Glen Searle, an associate professor in planning at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland, who formerly worked in planning policy for the New South Wales government.
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At least Greeks are starting to see improvements in long neglected infrastructure, largely funded by the EU. The government has opened two motorways this year, including a link to Patras, a major ferry port for trade with Italy and the rest of the EU. This completed a project that had been stalled for years and replaced one of Greece's most dangerous roads.
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