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Ireland's eleven new tollroads

According to Celtic myth the River Boyne was formed when BoAnn, the beautiful young wife of the leader of the local Clan Nectain, angered the gods by... The river was also the scene of the climactic Battle of the Boyne, 1690, when King William of Orange defeated the "popish" James II, ending for the last time the Catholic threat to the British monarchy. A 35m (110ft) high obelisk to William used to stand at the site but this memorial to protestantism was dynamited by IRA militants in the 1920s.

Eighty years after the obelisk fell the Boyne battlefield site is dominated by a 95m (312ft) high reinforced concrete A-frame tower supporting an asymmetrical cablestay bridge for a new tolled MORE

Wacko mayors of London and New York

The world's two greatest cities, New York and London are both currently run by wackos - men of great intelligence and ability but with a definite crazy streak. London's Mayor Ken Livingstone is a juvenile anti-American on foreign policy issues. He absorbs the most hysterical and paranoid lines about George Bush, for example, and parrots them like some silly troubled adolescent... Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York is... a different kind of nut. MORE

Penn Pike & I-95 interchange at last

The feds are fronting most of the $650m for connecting the Pennsylvania Turnpike with I-95 at Bristol PA at the far eastern end of the Turnpike. The long overdue project involves (1) relocation of the eastern barrier plaza of the Turnpike westward (2) an interchange routing I-95 directly onto the far eastern portion...MORE

Dartford Crossing back to UK government

The logo of the Dartford River Crossing Limited (DRCL) with its jolly three shipping flags is no more. With the transfer of operations of the Thames River toll crossing to a new concessionaire the nautical logo of DRCL is being replaced by the roady logo of the UK Highways Agency... MORE

Dallas North going norther

The Dallas North Tollway is going further north. Design work is under way by PB on a 3km (2mi) 2x3-lane extension from the present terminus of the pike at TX-121 in Plano to US-380 in Frisco. The $40m project... MORE

Truckway and bridge proposed Niagara River

Problems at the Niagara River crossings have spurred a proposed $250m 15km-long (9mi) investor-built toll truckway providing a highgrade connection between Ontario's Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) and New York state's I-190, which is a spur off the New York State Thruway. The Harriet Tubman Truckway (HTT)...MORE

L'il Ogden pike doing OK

Twenty months after it opened the owners of a small tollroad in South Weber City Utah are happy with their project. Bruce Stevens, VP at the Adams Avenue (AA) Parkway says they are now running 1,300 vehicles a day, about six times the volume when they opened. And the volume is edging up week by...MORE