Intrawest Corporation of Vancouver, the resort company that bought the mountain two years ago and changed the name of the area from Vernon Valley/Great Gorge to Mountain Creek, plans to build a shopping village and about 1,400 condominiums and town houses straddling Route 94.
The MSR project "envisions an economic cooperation area stretching from the Western Pacific to the Baltic Sea as a sort of maritime highway buttressed by Chinese-supported infrastructure and port facilities in states straddling maritime routes along which China's trade and natural resources flow" (Singh 2014, p. 133).
The community, which straddles Delaware Route 9 a few miles east of Dover, has been in limbo since June 20 when the Mayor and Town Board resigned, citing the high cost of liability insurance and fears of lawsuits that could hold them personally liable unless insured.
The HS2 plans have proved controversial with ministers facing the prospect of a Commons rebellion by MPs whose constituencies straddle the route.
When researchers scrutinized flight data for four major airlines along routes between Honolulu and three airports on the U.S. mainland (Los Angeles, shown in image; Seattle-Tacoma; and San Francisco) from 1995 to 2013, they found that takeoff-to-touchdown flight times were substantially influenced by the speed of high-altitude winds in a broad area straddling the air routes.
Turkey's old enemy Greece, as well as Austria and other EU states straddling the Balkan migrant route, face similar pressures, as Erdoğan knows very well.
Tim Hess, for example, a 65-year-old semi-retired rancher with 5,000 acres straddling the line's route, said that that an early map of the pipeline had it snaking diagonally across a sandy, erosion-prone part of his ranch that was planted in the 1960s and '70s with rows of scrubby trees aimed at holding the soil in place.
Most of the 8.55 mile route straddles the New York Connecticut state line, and part of the route is physically located in Connecticut.
The northern half of the route straddles the New York Connecticut state line, and two portions of the route are physically located in Connecticut.
Its appeal was location; it straddled the land route to India.
