Tag: highways

Ontario Auditor General Finds Vaccine Waste, Poor Planning, and Overpriced Auto Insurance

Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk released her annual report Nov. 30 on 15 key areas of the province’s public sector programs. Highway Priorities The report found the Ford government ignored advice given by experts about highways in the province—deciding to stop work on six highways that had been approved for funding—in favour of building four…


African Nations Mend and Make Do as China Tightens Belt and Road

NAIROBI—Deep in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, members of the National Youth Service tirelessly swing machetes to clear dense shrubs obscuring railway tracks more than a century old. It’s a distinctly low-tech phase for the Chinese communist regime’s Belt and Road drive in Africa to create the trade highways of the future. There’s not enough money…


Orange County Transportation Budget to Drive Road Improvements

The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) on June 14 approved a $1.3 billion budget that aims to improve the California county’s roadways. Some of the funds budgeted for the 2021-22 fiscal year will go toward capital investment projects, including freeway improvement projects on interstates 405 and 5, as well as state routes 55, 57, and 91. “OCTA continues to lead freeway…