A highway tunnel near Banihal Pass makes the Vale of Kashmir accessible to traffic from the south, even in winter.
The bridge opening made the island finally accessible to vehicular traffic.
Governor Patrick says the secure area "may get smaller... but that area is not going to be accessible for normal traffic".
Only since the last half of the 20th century have all the country's villages become accessible to wheeled traffic and linked to the national electricity grid.
In time for the old master auctions at Sotheby's next week, several purveyors of older art have made themselves accessible to foot traffic, some with thematic exhibitions, others with highlights from their stock.
"I think the residents are dying for retail over here," Mr. Benaim said, noting empty commercial spaces accessible to foot traffic on Vernon Boulevard and Jackson Avenue, two of the neighborhood's main thoroughfares.
A railroad across the Sierra Madre from the city of Chihuahua to Los Mochis on the Pacific bisects the Tarahumara country, and roads have made numerous villages of this tribe accessible to truck traffic.
The port city is accessible to ocean traffic on the Musi River and has considerable trade with ports on the Malay Peninsula and in Thailand and China as well as other Indonesian ports.
Such sites are also accessible to vehicular traffic with its attendant pollution, to livestock that drink and urinate, dung and muddy the water, and to people who visit to picnic or wash or fish or dispose of rubbish.
Accessible to northbound traffic only.
