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Pork Barrel spending?

Norwegian politicians invest more money in roads in regions overrepresented in the Parliament because the expected political return is higher. And that is why Norwegian roads always have been, currently are and forever will be, a patchwork of high-standard and sub-standard roads.

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Saving Norway’s crumbling infrastructure

The Norwegian government intends to spend some 320,000,000 NOK ($45,000,000,000) on transport infrastructure over the next 10 years.Will Norway be able to save its crumbling infrastructure without a disaster like the Minnesota bridge collapse?

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D-Day for Norway’s Transport Infrastructure

Norway’s transport infrastructure is way behind much of Europe, but today Norway’s government is presenting it’s development plans for the Norwegian transport infrastructure for 2010 to 2019 (Nasjonal Transportplan 2010-2019).

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