"Jammu-Srinagar highway opened for one-way traffic" from INDIA TODAY

"The 300-km Jammu-Srinagar Highway, the only road link to Kashmir valley, was reopened for one-way traffic on Sunday, a day after it was closed due to snowfall near Jawahar Tunnel in Qazigund."

"Fule spill creates huge traffic jam" from South China Morning Post

"INNER MONGOLIA - About 1,000 vehicles are caught in a 10kilometre traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet highway in Xinghe county, Xinhuanet.com reports. The traffic started to back up yesterday after an oil tanker that was rammed from behind by a car leaked eight tonnes of diesel fuel. Police are searching for the driver of the car, which sped off after the accident."

"Four die in expressway crash" from South China Morning Post

"Four people were killed when a van rear-ended another yesterday on the Guilin-Liuzhou Expressway in Yongfu county, China National Radio reports. Three people in one van died at the scene and the fourth died later."

"Why does the street sweeper focus on one part of town? from The World Newspaper

"It's better to have a preventative approach with the leaves than to be reactive, he added."

"The cost varies from year to year and is built into the budget for traffic safety and supplies as best it can be at $17,000, he said."

"Surveillance system keeps road traffic in check" from The Enginner

"A collaboration effort between European academics and industry partners has led to the development of an automated and robust traffic surveillance system that could make road travel across Europe safer."

"When finished by the end of next year, the Metok highway will be a key piece of infrastructure that doubles as an important channel for the People's Liberation Army to defend the border near India, said Anthony Wong Dong, president of the International Military Association, an independent group in Macau." from South China Morning Post

"Bangladesh: China to Fund Sonadia Port Construction" from Dredging Today

"China is baking construction of a new deep sea port at Sonadia, near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, and a project to build a new highway from the port of Chittagong to Kunming, in China."

"Crackdown on highways fraud" from South China Morning Post

"The Ministry of Transport yesterday announced measures to tackle illegal spending on infrastructure projects amid concerns hundreds of billions of yuan are owed to banks for highways projects."


"The fact that 200 billion yuan is owed to banks by Guandgong expressway projects despite the many toll stations collecting fees was partly due to corruption and inefficiency, Zheng said.

Many expressways are built in remote parts of the province where there is not enough traffic to recover the costs through collected tolls, he said. "Such expressways should  never have been built in the first place," he said."