An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in Romania

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The one-metre stunt resonated among Romanians fed up with the state of their roads

An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in north-eastern Romania to protest about his country’s poor highway infrastructure. Image caption

Pressure groups argue that poor roads cost Romania’s economy billions of euros a year

In 2018, Romania opened just 58km of motorways. “More people die each year than those who died in the 1989 revolution,” says Mr Mandachi, who arranged a car crash scene next to his motorway, with an ambulance and a funeral car, highlighting Romania’s deadly roads.

Source: www.bbc.com