The original thoroughfare, flanked by rows of columns and shops, was about 73 feet ( 22 meters ) wide ( roughly the equivalent of a present-day six lane motorway ), but buildings have extended onto the streets over the centuries, and the modern lanes replacing the ancient grid are now quite narrow.

To this end, they laid out a plat and street grid that became the basis of Berkeley's modern street plan.

A proposed variant of grid energy storage is called Vehicle-to-Grid energy storage system, where modern electric vehicles that are plugged into the energy grid can release the stored electrical energy in their batteries back into the grid when needed.

He performed pioneering work in the field of surveying and map-making and was involved in the work that led to the first modern plan-form map, though his plan for London on a grid system was rejected in favour of rebuilding along the existing routes.

Matter compilers receive their raw materials from the Feed, a system analogous to the electrical grid of modern society.

* The ordnance survey serves as the basis for the grid system used in the modern maps of Israel and Palestine.

Against the backdrop of the rapidly urbanizing United States of the 1910s and 1920s, one house from the artificial grid of modern, planned America takes flight in the dream of a woman who has feasted on Welsh rarebit.

These were generally characterised by a grid of streets and a planned water-supply ; and many modern European towns of originally Roman foundation still retain part of the original street-grid.

The city of Kyoto was developed as a planned city in 794 as a new imperial capital ( then called Heian-kyō ), built on a grid layout modeled after the Tang dynasty capital of Chang ' an ( modern day Xi ' an ), and remained the capital for over a millennium.

In modern times, Sapporo was built from 1868, following an American grid plan, and is today the fifth-largest city in Japan.

These were generally characterised by a grid of streets and a planned water-supply ; and many modern European towns of originally Roman foundation still retain part of the original street-grid.

It was a step towards modern trends in distributed processing and grid computing.

The grid layout planning of the cities with roads at exact right angles is a modern system that was implemented in the cities of this particular civilization.

Hay Bright also conveys that, despite having been critical toward the electric transmission grid and its pitfalls ( a nuclear power plant was once proposed for Cape Rosier ), the Nearings built a new house with normal modern conveniences, including grid electricity, next to the original Cape Rosier house.

Light's design for Adelaide is noted as one of the last great planned metropolises ; the city's grid layout, with alternating wide and narrow streets, interspaced with five public squares, has made it an ideal modern city, able to cope with traffic, and the Adelaide Parklands that surround it provide a " city in a park " feel.

The new Alley Theatre became “ the most modern, elastic theatre house in the world for the dramatic arts ” thanks to Yale University professor George Izenour ’ s first-of-its-kind light grid, adjustable walls and analogue recorder.

On the modern map of Manhattan the Delancey farm is represented in the grid of streets from Division Street north to Houston Street.

The new energy-efficient design includes modern lighting and a combined heat and power plant to reduce the hotel's reliance on the national electricity grid by approximately 50 %, as well as programmes to reuse, recycle and turn some waste into biofuel for use at an English power plant.

The original village has now been incorporated into the modern ' grid square ' of Loughton.

Between 1926 and 1929 a grid pattern of new avenues and streets intersected by diagonals radiating from a center, and square urban lots between them, established the framework for the modern city center.

According to modern pueblo people, this road represents the connection to the shipapu, the place of emergence of the ancestors or a dimensional doorway.

Two different routes to Apulia diverged at this point, one ( Via Aurelia Aeclanensis ) leading through the modern Ariano to Herdoniae, the other ( the Via Appia of the Empire ) passing the Lacus Ampsanctus and going on to Aquilonia and Venusia ; while the road from Aeclanum to Abellinum ( mod.

The long road from Bandar-Abbas in southern Iran to highway 1 in southern Afghanistan is carried out by state-owned Border Roads Organisation ( BRO ), the mission statement of which states that the BRO is India's " most reputed, multifaceted, transnational, modern construction organization committed to meeting the strategic needs of the armed forces.

Egnatia Odos ( modern road ) | A2 ( Egnatia Odos ) motorway.

Egnatia Odos ( modern road ) | A2 ( Egnatia Odos ) motorway.

Mabura Road south of LindenIn the early 1970s a two-lane road with modern geometry and surfaced with laterite was built between Linden and Rockstone.

Transportation in Lebanon varies greatly in quality from the ultra modern Beirut International Airport to poor road conditions in many parts of the country.

The explanation for overtaking on the left, although road traffic in Britain overtakes on the right, is that, unlike modern " comb " escalators, where the end of the moving stairway is at right angles to the direction of travel, older " shunt " escalators ended with a diagonal so that the stairway finished sooner for the right foot than for the left.

Common graves of the archaic Esquiline necropolis have been found near the north-west corner of the modern Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, that is, outside the Esquiline gate of antiquity and north of the via Tiburtina vetus ; most probably the horti Maecenatiani extended north from this gate and road on both sides of the ager.

These in turn in some cases became highways – with attendant problems all over New Zealand ( but especially in the more mountainous regions ), as the geography and contours of a slow-speed road laid out in the first half of the 20th century usually do not conform to safety and comfort criteria of modern motor vehicles.

Between the two ends of the range, the only passes worth mentioning are the Col de la Perche, between the valley of the Têt and the valley of the Segre, the Port d ' Envalira, the highest mountain pass in the Pyrenees and one of the highest points of the European road network, and the Col de Somport or Port de Canfranc, where there were old Roman roads, but apparently, no modern highways.

Related words in a few modern Indo-European languages are Russian doroga ( way, road ), Polish droga ( way, road ), Czech dráha ( way, track ), Serbo-Croatian draga ( path through a valley ), and Norwegian dialect drog ( trail of animals ; valley ).

Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill, it guarded the Stanegate, the Roman road from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth.

Jung's idea of religion as a practical road to individuation has been quite popular, and is still treated in modern textbooks on the psychology of religion, though his ideas have also been criticized.

The 1896 Summer Olympics saw the birth of the modern marathon and the event led to the growth of road running competitions through annual events such as the Boston Marathon ( first held in 1897 ) and the Lake Biwa Marathon and Fukuoka Marathons, which were established in the 1940s.

It can be translated as a term of endearment: for as the leader of Leopold's expedition, he commonly worked with the labourers breaking rocks with which they built the first modern road along the Congo River.

Amish farmers, who reject tractors and most other modern technology for religious reasons, commonly use teams of six or eight mules to pull plows, diskers, and other farm equipment, though they use horses for pulling buggies on the road.

# A more modern variation, where the trains tend to run along their own right-of-way and are often separated from road traffic.

This site is recognised by modern convention as the centre of London for the purpose of indicating distances by road in favour of other previous measurement points ( such as St Paul's Cathedral which remains as the root of the English and Welsh part of the Great Britain road numbering scheme ).

Charing Cross is marked on modern maps as a road junction, though it was previously also a postal address denoting the stretch of road between Great Scotland Yard and Trafalgar Square.

By the middle of the 18th century, France had the most modern and extensive road network in the world.

The hill ( which was then unnamed ) is on the main road toward Canandaigua from Palmyra to Manchester ( modern State Route 21 ) and was only a few miles from Joseph Smith's home.