Furet wrote: » CBM - concrete bound material (used in road pavement construction). The CBM is the grey material beneath the two asphalt layers.
BluntGuy wrote: » S3 - Single-Carriageway - Commonly in a 2+1 configuration of sorts
murphaph wrote: » RTA Road Traffic Accident, fallen out of favour against RTI Road raffic Incident
The idea of Trans-European Networks (TEN in the EU jargon) emerged by the end of the 1980s in conjunction with the proposed Single Market. It made little sense to talk of a big market, with freedom of movement within it for goods, persons and services, unless the various regions and national networks making up that market were properly linked by modern and efficient infrastructure. The construction of Trans-European Networks is also an important element for economic growth and the creation of employment The Treaty establishing the European Union provides a sound legal basis for the TENs. Under the terms of Chapter XV of the Treaty (Articles 154, 155 and 156), the European Union must aim to promote the development of Trans -European Networks as a key element for the creation of the Internal Market and the reinforcement of Economic and Social Cohesion. This development includes the interconnection and interoperability of national networks as well as access to such networks.
The Trans-European Transport Networks are a planned set of road, rail, air and water transport networks designed to serve the entire continent of Europe. The TEN-T networks are part of a wider system of Trans-European Networks (TENs), including a telecommunications network (eTEN) and a proposed energy network (TEN-E or Ten-Energy). The European Commission adopted the first action plans on trans-European networks (transport, energy and telecommunications) in 1990. The transport network is known as TEN-T. TEN-T envisages coordinated improvements to primary roads, railways, inland waterways, airports, seaports, inland ports and traffic management systems, so as to provide integrated and intermodal long-distance high-speed routes for the movement of people and freight throughout Europe. A decision to adopt TEN-T was made by the European Parliament and Council in July 1996, and as a result of this, the EU works to promote the networks by a combination of leadership, coordination, issuance of guidelines, and the funding of aspects of development through a series of projects. These projects are technically and financially managed by the Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TEN-T EA), which was established exactly for this purpose by the European Commission in October 2006.
they play an important role in long-distance traffic they bypass the main urban centres on the routes identified by the network they provide interconnection with other modes of transport they link landlocked and peripheral regions to central regions...
Furet wrote: » Spacetweek's Irish Motorway Info website: http://www.ideasforcheapstuff.com/inex/roads/index.html Wesley Johnston's Northern Ireland Roads site: www.wesleyjohnston.com/roads
Marinity wrote: » Is it dead? I can't browse it
Jayuu wrote: » Looked at both of them yesterday so don't think so! A little updating may be necessary for Spacetweek's site to include the new motorways that have come on stream but that's it.
spacetweek wrote: » Eh?? What have I left out? Can't spot anything...
FYI, the links in #1 don't work after the upgrade.
