A new roadway bisecting the site — Thomas M. Armstrong Boulevard, named for the company's founder — awaits future traffic.
But over-optimistic forecasts of future traffic and an unwillingness to offer attractive rates of return meant the programme stalled.
What seems clear, though, is that the carriers' current land grab is a panic response to projections made by the FCC for future traffic growth.
To them, it is a blight, a source of future traffic congestion and worse: a beachhead for Muslim expansion in Brooklyn and a beacon for anti-Semitism.
Next-generation systems that can handle this future traffic jam are being developed by many companies, including Ciena in Linthicum, Md., and Infinera in Sunnyvale, Calif.
The company said that £55 million of the sale price was conditional on future traffic and "the buyer's future capital structure".
However, the outlook for future economic conditions in the UK remains uncertain and, as a consequence, the future traffic, revenue performance and ongoing compliance with debt covenants of the M6 Toll will be subject to economic factors outside its control".
Inside the Big Dig, formally the Central Artery-Tunnel Project, the First Nighters will be able to cross future traffic lanes and see a part of the construction that is safe to tour.
In the future, traffic is expected to grow enormously worldwide, particularly in developing Asian countries.
It takes in past and current traffic volume to predict future traffic volumes.
