Officials put the cost at 144 billion yuan ($24 billion); cheap perhaps compared with the 400-billion-yuan line from Beijing to Shenzhen, but it traverses such a vast stretch of barely inhabited terrain that land and rehousing costs are negligible.Officials have given the project the ponderous name of the Lanxin Railway Second Double-Tracked Line.
Saltwater fish don't swim through the Panama Canal because it traverses Lago Gatún, a freshwater lake.
Looking down from an airplane as it traverses the flyover states, you would be hard pressed to know whether you were crossing South Dakota or Goias, Mato Grosso or the corn belt.Perhaps Australia and Canada might say the same.
THE mighty Colorado river, which traverses America's parched south-west before (these days) petering out on the way to the Gulf of California, has inspired great engineering minds to devise ways of harnessing its waters, and fine legal minds to construct rules governing its use.
The harvest is a fraction of what it was a few years ago when water flowed in the Juma River, which traverses the village.
But like many other countries it is worried about "freedom of navigation": a huge chunk of global trade traverses the sea.
An electrical wave traverses the heart each time it beats, co-ordinating the contraction and relaxation of the chambers that pump blood around the body.
As Adam traverses history, he sees material progress combined with spiritual decline.Even if you can show how miserable the past was, the belief in progress is about the future.
The bus takes about six hours, a car less (with the added bonus that the road route traverses the beautiful Drina valley).
But it is concerned about the "freedom of navigation"; a huge chunk of global trade traverses the sea.
"Under state ownership it would still be a commuting backwater," says Bob Holland, managing director of Arriva trains, the company that owns Chiltern.The line traverses a favoured spot.
