The phrase "the route was changed" is a perfectly acceptable and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a route that has been altered, either intentionally or unintentionally, from its original form. For example, "The original route was blocked by construction, so the route was changed to go around the city instead."
When the route was changed, however, the land became surplus.
Shortly after, because of dangerous snow, the route was changed and a new one made up the west side of the col.
It was started by Ralph Lee, who bowed out after the 1985 parade, when the route was changed to accommodate the growing crowds.
Less than an hour before the start ofSaturday's stage, race officials could be seen scurrying around team buses bearing maps and bits of paper; that was how late the route was changed, with the exclusion of the long, dragging ascent to Sestriere, which climbs over 2000m and would not have looked out of place on a Christmas card.
Somehow the route was changed halfway through so that instead of all meeting at the same point, me and Kev went past Benno's front door to pick him up.
The route was changed when the more direct route between these cities (via Delta, Utah) was paved.
This route was sabotaged in 1991 for blatantly political reasons: the deputy prime minister, Michael Heseltine, directed that the route be changed to enter London through the Thames estuary to the east, rather than from the south, in order to aid his plans for the regeneration of east London.
In Experiment 1, configurations of the routes were changed with such variables as the number of bends, the number of embedding planes, and the number of planes with respect to the body posture.
Although the protests in San Francisco were not as disruptive as in London and Paris, the torch's sole North American visit was a disappointment to thousands of spectators after the relay route was changed at the last minute.
At three months, if patients were still without response, the administration route was changed from PO to subcutaneous (SC) maintaining the MTX dose.
Claims by an MP that the 2012 Olympic marathon route was changed because organisers are ashamed of London's East End have been branded "ludicrous".
