Widening and deepen– ing it adequately would be a long and costly operation, so much so that some Western an alysts believe that it would be cheaper to build a second and parallel canal.
Detractors of his proposals, including a third airport, a parallel canal, a third bridge over the Bosphorus and a second tunnel - for cars, south of Marmaray - say they illustrate Mr Erdogan's "pharaonic" ambitions.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway had opened the previous year, and proved a remarkable success in abstracting traffic from the parallel canal, and indicated that longer distances, not merely feeders to a harbour or from a colliery, could be dealt with, and everywhere business people were considering where a railway might advantageously be built next.
After crossing NY 250, NY 31F becomes East Church Street and begins to parallel the canal as both exit the village.
NY 5 continues to parallel the canal, and in some instances again, the Thruway, through Amsterdam, becoming Amsterdam Road all the way to Scotia, where it crosses the canal into Schenectady as Mohawk Avenue, turning into State Street upon entering the city limits.
I-70 continues to parallel the canal and rail trail at a distance until its diamond interchange with MD 56 (Big Pool Road) at Big Pool, where the freeway curves away from the Potomac River and passes to the south of Stone Quarry Ridge and Boyd Mountain.
A solution is to cut over to the Hurrah Trail, which doesn't allow motorized craft and parallels the canal for two miles, starting near the Suwannee Canal Recreation Area's put-in point.
In 2014, Egypt announced plans to ease congestion by digging another canal parallel to the present one; canal tolls provide much needed foreign exchange for Egypt.
Along this stretch, the freeway closely parallels the canal, which emerges from under the freeway just north of Mulberry Street.
"This giant project will be the creation of a new Suez canal parallel to the current channel," said Mohab Mamish, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, in a televised speech.
