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The city of Yekaterinburg in Russia has a pothole problem, made worse by the empty promises of politicians to fix it. Local blog Ura.ru teamed up with Voskhod ad agency to shame them into action:

We associated road holes with the images of certain politicians. In the night, on three potholes in city center, we drew faces of the governor, the mayor and the vice-mayor. The news about caricatures became a sensation. With this intense PR the politicians were no longer able to sit idle. The holes were fixed.

More here

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Behold the extent of the major A5 Derry to Aughnacloy, county Tyrone road upgrade (in red on the map above). Nice isn’t it? You’re paying for nearly half of it.

The Irish Republic’s Department of Transport has told the BBC it has already spent £19m on the project.

The 55-mile long road from Derry to Aughnacloy will be improved into a high-quality dual-carriageway.It will create a key cross border business route linking Dublin to the north west.

The total cost will be £850m. Of this, £400m has been promised by the Irish government.

All comments in the spirit of cross-border harmony please.

Irish government has already spent £19m on A5 road upgrade (BBC News NI)

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A brilliant new road safety initiative from Preventable in Canada.

Before drivers approach the image, they pass a “School Zone” sign, crosswalk, an extended curb and a sign by Preventable that reads, “You’re probably not expecting kids to run out on the road.” The figure begins to take shape from about 50 feet away and appears in 3D for another 40 feet until the driver is about 10 feet away, when the image recedes into a “blob” on the street.

Get on it, Gaybo.

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