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On 22 December 2024, the central portion of the Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira Bridge [], crossing the Tocantins River as part of the BR-226 and BR-010 highway and connecting the municipalities of Estreito, Maranhão, and Aguiarnópolis, Tocantins, Brazil, collapsed, killing at least 13 people and leaving at least four others missing.
The National Department of Transport Infrastructure said the central span of the 533-meter (0.3-mile) bridge, linking the cities of Estreito in Maranhao state and Aguiarnopolis in Tocantins state ...
The BR-116 highway is described as the road with the most deaths in Brazil.With an extensive road network and a busy flow of heavy trucks, especially in granite-producing regions in northern Minas Gerais, serious crashes are frequent, including during the intense end-of-year season.
The Brazilian Highway System (Portuguese: Sistema Nacional de Rodovias) is a network of trunk roads administered by the Ministry of Transport of Brazil. It is constructed, managed and maintained by the National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT), a federal agency linked to the Ministry of Infrastructure, and the public works departments of state governments.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after months of hedging on the issue, has committed his government to finishing a road through a pristine part of the Amazon rainforest, a move ...
The controversy over the construction of BR-319 has been going on for years. In 2022, a permit to pave the highway was issued by former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, whose administration ...
The 2018 Brazil truck drivers' strike, also called the diesel crisis, was a strike of self-employed truck drivers [6] [7] that began on 21 May 2018. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The protesters demanded a decrease of the price of diesel , exemption from certain tolls, [ 11 ] as well as a legal and tax reform related to truck driving.
Police arrested the former director of Brazil’s Federal Highway Police and conducted several raids Wednesday as part of an investigation into possible political interference in last year’s ...