Sentence examples for significant thoroughfare from inspiring English sources

But a much more significant thoroughfare also existed here: the underground railroad.

Once a mighty waterway used to transport coal and other commodities to developing towns along a route from Phillipsburg to Jersey City, the 102-mile Morris Canal, betweenetween 1825 and 1831, petered out as a significant thoroughfare in the 1880s, a victim of the railroad boom.

The lines were important thoroughfares for the transport of coal in the area, including Mosley Common Colliery.

During the Roman era Volders acted as an important station along the thoroughfare connecting the Italian peninsula with the North.

The festival underwent yet another significant layout change this year, where the main thoroughfare around the Coliseum was augmented by spidery routes in-between and behind the stages.

The area is served by small shopping strips along Quentin Road and Avenue S. For more significant shopping, there is Flatbush Avenue — a wide, busy thoroughfare lined with large and diverse stores, including groceries, electronics outlets and drugstores.

The neighborhood's boisterous thoroughfare is Atlantic Avenue; it carries a significant amount of traffic and is home to the Brooklyn House of Detention, whose future has been known to generate cacophonous debate.

Berlin's Unter den Linden, a primary thoroughfare and ensemble of historic architecture and nationally significant cultural institutions, lay in ruins at the close of the Second World War.

Essentially it's an infrastructural acknowledgement that this busy thoroughfare carves a disruptive and dangerous swath through significant wildlife habitat.

The police said they had not been called to the health club for any significant incidents before, and business owners on Merrick Road, a major thoroughfare on Long Island, said the area was quiet.

Both countries are a significant source of refugees in Europe, while Sudan is also a major migration thoroughfare for people moving between east Africa and the Libyan coast, the springboard for most people-smuggling missions to Italy.