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Crews uncover slew of historical artifacts in construction of Britain’s Crossrail commuter line
While tunneling for the 13-mile underground section of Britain’s 73-mile, $23 billion Crossrail commuter line, crews uncovered about 2,000 years-worth of historical artifacts, according to a report from our sister site, Equipment World. The crews found the artifacts about 16 to 20 feet below ground. “This site is a rare, perhaps unprecedented opportunity,” Nick Elsden, […]
August 21, 2013
Roadbuilding
Margaret Thatcher Privatizes the Buses
And so the Iron Lady, the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, leaves the stage, dying following a stroke. Stories about her are legendary. Some of the best ones are true, but many of them are embellished or just plain apocryphal. One refers to failure and its link to having to use public transport. Which […]
April 10, 2013
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