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4 stories match “roads”

1. Politics · Public works

   The Towns That Voted to Fix Their Roads Before Building New Ones

   …spent on a new road, or on widening an old one, until fewer than 8 percent of the district’s roads are rated poor or very poor in the province’s annual condition survey. Certified safety works are exempt, and…

   Tiago Mendes · Oct 13, 2026 · 14 min read

2. Politics · Transit

   Redrawing a Bus Map Without Losing a Single Rider

   …committee took up the plan in December, the debate divided less along party lines than along roads. Members from Asterby wanted the frequent network built as drafted, arguing that a bus nobody can use to reach…

   Julien Moreau · Mar 12, 2026 · 7 min read

3. Science · Biodiversity

   Who Checks on the Seeds?

   …longer exist. Peas grown in the same walled garden for two centuries. Wild oats gathered from roadsides that have since been paved. In its funding applications the repository describes all this as insurance. On…

   Ilona Varga · Oct 11, 2026 · 14 min read

4. Ideas · Reading

   The Case for Footnotes

   …page 41, where somebody had underlined Tarrant’s confident claim that sea fog in the outer roads “comes in on the flood and goes out on the ebb” and written beside it, in soft pencil: Wrong. Ebb, not flood.…

   Agata Kowalczyk · Dec 3, 2025 · 14 min read