A long-standing campaign, Norwich in 90, to upgrade the region's patchy rail infrastructure and cut journey times has finally won the government's support.
The paradox of Boris Johnson, not for the first time, unfairly blaming poor cycling for a spate of deaths which could more realistically be tied to the patchy bike infrastructure he oversaw, is that London's mayor is otherwise arguably the best cycling champion in British politics.
The core of the fighting is taking place in the northern Unity and Upper Nile states, regions with barely functional roads and patchy telecommunication infrastructure.
Output has now dropped to its lowest level for 50 years and the industry is much smaller than it was in 1994, when the ANC first came to power and mining still represented 9% of GDP.There are many reasons for this, including the country's shoddy infrastructure and patchy electricity.
Public services are patchy but improving, as is infrastructure.
Montenegro was one of the poorer relations of the former Yugoslavia and has been a nation only since 2006, when it declared independence from Serbia; service and infrastructure can be patchy, particularly away from the coast.
Efforts to attract private investment for infrastructure have had only patchy success.
Although gas can be carted around in liquid form, that is expensive and the infrastructure required is still patchy; for the most part, gas is shifted through pipelines, and tends to be used close to where it originates.
At present, patchy or nonexistent collection and recycling infrastructure in many parts of the world means that most plastic trash simply does not get to the companies that might be able to make use of it.
The number should rise, he hopes, to 10m by the end of the year.Too far from farm to forkThe biggest impediment may be lousy infrastructure: crumbling roads and patchy supplies of electricity and water.
