Clay County's rural location and lack of major four-lane highway connections continues to hamper development and recruitment of businesses.

This difficulty is further magnified by the lack of a major highway on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River connecting Gatineau to Montreal, the metropolis of the province ; most travellers from Gatineau to Montreal first cross over to Ottawa, and use Ontario highways to access Montreal.

Contributing factors to highway crashes may be related to the driver ( such as driver error, illness or fatigue ), the vehicle ( brake, steering, or throttle failures ) or the road itself ( lack of sight distance, poor roadside clear zones, etc .).

There, the dense forestry and lack of development ends, and the highway begins to parallel some industrial development in the southern part of the city.

Because of lower traffic counts at the north and south ends of the highway and lack of construction money, tollway officials built the road with four lanes from North Avenue ( Illinois Route 64 ) to the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway ( Interstate 88 ) on the north end, and around I-55 on the south end.

Some businesses in the town were already affected by the new highway due to a sharp decline in traffic, a lack of customers and had to closed down.

Mtwara is a southern region of Tanzania which has been underdeveloped for a long time: development is constrained by the lack of highway and energy infrastructures.

Panzerdivision, whose mission was to proceed by secondary roads via Monaville ( just northwest of Bastogne ) to seize a key highway and capture, among other objectives, fuel dumps — for the lack of which the overall German counter-offensive faltered and failed.

An improved highway from Columbus to Athens is particularly desired, due to the lack of arterial highways in southeastern Ohio.

In August 2008, residents of Puerto Escondido blocked the highway to the municipal seat of San Pedro Mixtepec to protest the lack of money for infrastructure in the town.

With just four M18 tank destroyers of the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion to assist, the paratroopers attacked units of the 2nd Panzer Division, whose mission was to proceed by secondary roads via Monaville ( just northwest of Bastogne ) to seize a key highway and capture, among other objectives, fuel dumps — for the lack of which the overall German counter-offensive faltered and failed.

Similarly, while it has tourist potential it is a bit too far off the main tourist routes and the poor state of the main highway and the lack of regular air services discourage visitors.

Faced with a change in consumer shopping patterns, the consolidation of the department store industry, the existence of too many malls fragmenting the greater Los Angeles retail marketplace, lack of highway access and competition from the neighboring Nordstrom-anchored South Bay Galleria that opened in 1985, Del Amo began to suffer.

The lack of mixed use urban activation along the downtown Richmond riverfront and surrounding the highway in general has been linked to the expressway.

However, the lack of funding forced the Quebec government to build only a Super-2 highway, while Laframboise wanted a 4-lane traditional Autoroute to facilitated a triangular corridor formed by Montreal, Gatineau and the Mont-Tremblant ski resort in the Laurentians.

Congress defined it to " provide a highway system which, in conjunction with the Interstate System and other Federal-aid highways in the Appalachian region, will open up an area or areas where commerce and communication have been inhibited by lack of adequate access ".

Despite its short length and lack of interchanges, the highway is six lanes wide between MD 177 and MD 710, a reminder of the route's planned importance.

The area, together with its neighboring Valiasr Ave, is suffering from severe traffic congestion due to rapid commercialization and lack of direct highway access.

While once thriving in such a small community, industry in Honeoye has shrunk significantly from five manufacturing plants to two in the past 20 years or so, mainly due to the lack of rail access or a major highway.

This can be attributed to a lower cost of living, lack of employment and educational opportunities in the area, lifestyle factors and the development of strong transport links like the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway and Cityrail's Newcastle and Central Coast railway line.

The maintenance and modernisation of the Slovenian railway network has been neglected due to the lack of financial assets, creating bottlenecks.

Angered by the British opportunism, de Lesseps sent a letter to the British government remarking on the British lack of remorse a few years earlier when forced workers died in similar conditions building the British railway in Egypt.

Hellfire Pass in the Tenasserim Hills was a particularly difficult section of the line to build due to it being the largest rock cutting on the railway, coupled with its general remoteness and the lack of proper construction tools during building.

The railway company had been reluctant to open a station in the area due to a perceived lack of demand, and so a compromise was reached with the construction of the halt.

The growth and settlement of Pope County were greatly retarded for many years by the lack of railway and shipping facilities, which obliged the settlers to go long distances, into adjoining counties, to market their products.

The lack of daylight on the station's platforms compares unfavourably with the glazed trainshed roofs of more traditional Victorian railway stations, but the use of the space above as a parcels depot did release the maximum possible space at ground level for platforms and passenger facilities.

Being geographically the largest, and the most central of the four main post-grouping railway companies, the LMS shared numerous boundaries with both the LNER and GWR, although its overlap with the Southern Railway was limited due to the general lack of direct routes through London.

It was the largest rock cutting on the railway, coupled with its general remoteness and the lack of proper construction tools during building.

During this period the railway gradually deteriorated through lack of adequate maintenance.

Yet due to lack of funding exacerbated by the collapse of the internal coffee trade, the railway fell sixty miles short of its goal.

From 2000-2011, there were no active railway expansion projects in the MARTA system due to lack of additional sales-tax funding, the need to spend its limited capital budget on refurbishing its older rolling stock, replacing the fare-collection system, repairing the tracks and their electrical systems, and other long-term maintenance, repair, and operations requirements.

Owing to the lack of a mainline railway the ore was transferred to a wharf at Gunness ( or Gunhouse ), initially by cart then by a narrow gauge railway, for distribution by barge or mainline rail from Keadby.

The German director imported two large steam-driven blast furnaces of the latest design from Britain and set up a railway with 15 miles of track and a locomotive from Manchester to deliver the ore. Production began in 1880 but had to be stopped soon after due to a lack of charcoal.

A miniature railway runs half the length of the park along the river but, due to the lack of any turning space, the return journey is made in reverse.

Various kinds of rack railway were developed to overcome the lack of friction of conventional locomotives on steep gradients.

Chinese troop movement was severely handicapped by the lack of sufficient motorized vehicles and adequate railway lines.

Improvement was limited during the 19th century, initially due to the lack of traffic and funding, then the transfer of traffic from road to the parallel railway which opened in stages between 1857 and 1888 between Newcastle and Wallangarra.

The gas reservoirs had just been charged prior to leaving Larbert and this, plus the lack of available water, meant it was not until the morning of the next day that the fire was extinguished despite the best efforts of railway staff and the Carlisle fire brigade.

There were other proposals to deploy batteries to bombard London, Paris, Antwerp and other cities but these were not implemented due to the poor state of the German railway network and a lack of ammunition.

In 1907 owing to a lack of support at their Godinton Road ground ( which being beyond the railway bridge was a fair distance from the town and their previous base in the Newtown area ), the club suffering from heavy debts was unable to fulfill its fixtures and ceased playing mid-season.

By the time Bishop John Lonsdale died in 1867 the lack of a railway was one of the main reasons that his successor Bishop Selwyn gave for the decision to sell the castle and thus sever the long association of Eccleshall with the Bishop of Lichfield.

Although lack of capital prevented the construction of a branch from the main line to the navigation at Halesworth and another along the north bank of the river towards Southwold harbour, the railway still had an effect on the navigation, use of which declined until the Commissioners advertised that they were no longer deriving any income from it in 1884, and would therefore cease to maintain it.