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Highway plan sparks fear for Beirut heritage
A new highway touted as a way to ease Beirut's notorious traffic has angered residents and activists who say it will destroy rare old houses that survived Lebanon's 15-year civil war.
08 June 2013
3,500km of roads to be repaired in Kazakhstan in 2013
2,000km of roads will become fully operable before the end of the construction season.
31 May 2013
Kazakhstan to spend over $23 billion on 60 transport projects
61 transport and infrastructure projects worth over $23 billion are planned to be implemented in Kazakhstan by the end of 2014.
26 April 2013
A woman dragged under car in Almaty
A scary video appeared on Facebook: a woman was dragged down the road under a car’s trunk in Kazakhstan.
19 April 2013
Foreign experts to check quality of Kazakhstan roads
Kazakhstan Ministry of Transport and Communications insists on hiring foreign companies to check and accept Kazakhstan roads into service.
10 April 2013
First Kazakhstan autobahn to get toll in 1 month
First Kazakhstan 6-lane autobahn Astana-Borovoye will become a toll road starting from May 1, 2013.
04 April 2013
Load on Almaty main roads exceeded 10-fold
Almaty administration has reported that normal load on the city's main roads is exceeded 10-fold or more.
02 April 2013
Kazakhstan ranked 117th by road and 29th by railway quality
Experts have evaluated the quality of roads in Kazakhstan at 2.7 points out of 7, but its railroads have been evaluated quite high.
25 March 2013
Bus smashes into KamAZ truck in southern Kazakhstan; 5 dead, 26 injured
The driver of the MAN bus, driving from Almaty to Shymkent, lost control over the bus and crashed into a KamAZ truck loaded with rails that was parked at the road side.
20 March 2013
Partially collapsed bridge in Kyzylorda oblast closed
The bridge over the railroad at kilometer 1,642 of Shymkent-Samara highway partially collapsed at night of March 16 after 2 square meters of its beams gave in.
18 March 2013
Reconstruction of Almaty-Kapshagai road to start in 2013
The Kazakhstan Ministry promised to start reconstruction of Kapshagai road this year: Almaty Akim.
25 February 2013
Nazarbayev signs $95 million loan from Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank is loaning Kazakhstan $95 million for reconstruction of a road section and construction of a new section of Western Europe-Western China transport corridor.
11 February 2013
Alternative routes to unload Eastern Bypass Road in Almaty
Police officers have been placed in very overloaded street to ensure non-stop movement of the traffic.
10 February 2013
Ethno villages to spring around Astana city
Ethnic villages will be built in the residential areas adjusted to Astana city within the radius of 30-50 kilometers before the EXPO-2017.
01 February 2013
Kazakhstan introduces its first toll road
Serik Akhmetov has visited the first 224km-long toll road in Kazakhstan: Astana-Schuchinsk route.
25 December 2012
800km of Western Europe-Western China road to be launched in 2013
Kazakhstan Transport and Communications Minister talked about road construction plans for 2013.
20 December 2012
Nazarbayev checked on construction of road junctions in Almaty
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev checked on the course of construction of the road junction at the crossing of Sain-Mustafin streets in Almaty.
19 November 2012
Almaty ring road will have a toll
It will cost the drivers 6-12 tenge per kilometer to drive on the Big Almaty Ring Motorway, depending on the car type: expert.
13 November 2012
150 trucks, 90 Chinese-made, fined for overload near Almaty in 5 days
Trucks were checked for overload in Almaty and Almaty oblast on October 17-23.
01 November 2012