In Chile in 2024, several hundred demonstrators burned tires and blocked coastal highways and railway tracks to protest the early closure of the fishing season, a move partly driven by overfishing tied to fishmeal.
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Ian Urbina,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Oct. 2026
The red dye also allows a road inspector to detect whether a trucker is evading taxes by using the fuel on highways.
As the hundreds of thousands of people made their way down the narrow roads following the politician, a few rerouted into the industry event, still carrying big flags and with faces lit up with hope.
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
7 Oct. 2026
The landscape was inspired by the inland town of Ioulida, a hilltop village with cascading residential dwellings and winding paths (no car-worthy roads), and a church perched at the precipice.
Bikes are not allowed to on freeways or expressways, and cyclists cannot pass through tolls unless the signs nearby dictate otherwise.
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Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
31 Aug. 2026
The firm noted that major bridges like the Donghai Bridge and the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, as well as regional expressways, have reopened with standard speed limits restored.
Instead of wide postwar boulevards, roads would become slower and leaner, transforming Long Beach into a top-five global cycling city, said former city traffic engineer Paul Van Dyk.
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Barbara Kingsley-Wilson,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Sep. 2026
Visitors often still liken the city’s walkable streets and historic architecture to European boulevards.
The massive project funded from 13 federal, state and local agencies, gives a glimpse of what’s to come for Long Beach thoroughfares.
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Barbara Kingsley-Wilson,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Sep. 2026
Two years later, Wong became one of the key leaders of the city’s Umbrella Movement protests that rallied thousands of predominantly young people to the streets to call for greater democracy by blocking major thoroughfares for 79 straight days.
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