Hundreds of thousands of people took advantage of the opportunity ; new crossing points were opened in the Berlin Wall and along the border with West Germany.

The East German authorities argued that it was meant to prevent spies and agents of West Germany from crossing into the East.

After the initial opening of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, Potsdamer Platz became one of the earliest locations where the Wall was " breached " to create a new border crossing between East and West Berlin.

* 06: 48 UT Vostok 1 crosses the equator at about 170 ° West, traveling in a south east direction and begins crossing the South Pacific.

According to Pliny the Elder and his citation by Gaius Julius Solinus, the sea voyage time from Atlantis crossing the Gorgades to the islands of the Ladies of the West ( Hesperides ) is around 40 days.

10, 000 slaves poured into the port yearly, crossing the Atlantic from West Africa under conditions so foul that an estimated one-third died in transit.

With the prevailing wind direction in the Northern Hemisphere being from the West, this cold, dry air sweeps east, and southward across the eastern half of the United States, before crossing over the Gulf Stream to reach Bermuda ( hence Bermudians usually obtain a two-or-three day warning of the approach of bad weather by watching the weather reports of the Atlantic Seaboard ).

Salisbury railway station serves the city, and is the crossing point between the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line, making it a regional interchange.

Salisbury railway station is the crossing point of the West of England Main Line, from London Waterloo to Exeter, and the Wessex Main Line from Bristol to Southampton.

Route 18 crosses into Ocean Township, crossing under County Route 17 ( West Bangs Avenue ), and there are exits for Route 66 and Asbury Avenue, Route 66, Deal Road in Ocean Township, West Park Avenue in Ocean Township, and enters Eatontown.

In the portion of Jefferson Parish on the Westbank of the Mississippi River (" West Jefferson "), large-scale suburban development commenced with the completion, in 1958, of the Greater New Orleans Bridge crossing the Mississippi River at downtown New Orleans.

Upon leaving Kinnelon, the route enters West Milford in Passaic County at the crossing of the Pequannock River.

Route 44 enters Greenwich Township upon crossing the marshy Repaupo Creek and becomes a local road called West Broad Street.

The route intersects CR 667 in the center of Paulsboro before crossing the Mantua Creek on a lift bridge and entering wetlands within West Deptford Township.

At the intersection with College Boulevard, the route forms the border between Woodbury Heights to the east and West Deptford Township to the west, crossing over the New Jersey Turnpike without an interchange.

In Shiloh, Route 49 meets County Route 620 ( Roadstown Road ) and County Route 753 ( East Avenue / West Avenue ) in the center of town and heads southeast, crossing County Route 695 ( Maple Avenue / Randolph Road ).

Between 1945 and 1982 Lauenburg served as West German inner German border crossing for cars travelling along Bundesstraße 5 between the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany ( till 1949, thereafter the East German Democratic Republic, or West Berlin and the British zone of occupation ( till 1949 ) and thereafter the West German Federal Republic of Germany.

Hartford was incorporated in 1900 and as a result, the old original town of Hartford, about one and a half miles west and named for a creek crossing belonging to the Hart family, is now generally referred to as " Old Town " or " West Hartford ".

West Terre Haute is the last community in Indiana encountered travelling westbound on US 40 before crossing into Illinois.

Arriving at Oxford by ferry crossing the Tred Avon River. Oxford is located at 38 ° 41 ' 12 " North, 76 ° 10 ' 15 " West ( 38. 686776 ,-76. 170842 ) on the south bank of the Tred Avon river, near its mouth, where it empties into the Choptank.

According to the West 7th / Fort Road foundation, St. Paul annexed the West Side, and was incorporated for two reasons: " to aid law enforcement -- criminals could escape St. Paul authorities by crossing to the West Side and Dakota County -- and to eliminate the Wabasha Street Bridge tolls which were inhibiting development on the West Side ..." The current City of West St. Paul split from the western half of South St. Paul ( thus the name West St. Paul was reused ), and was incorporated in 1889, just south of the city of St. Paul.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

what is new and compelling is that the West is now but one of several powerful civilizations, or `` systems '', and that one or more of the others may pose a mortal danger to the West.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.

The wizard who fashioned West Germany's astonishing industrial rebirth is the soul of free enterprise.

He is dedicated to building the nation's strength and, as are all West Germans, to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive East Germany.

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

The West Berlin crisis is being played up artificially because it is needed by the United States to justify its arms drive ''.

The `` West Berlin '' crisis is really an East Berlin crisis.

They are less vocal now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating.

West Berlin morale is low and, in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Tramlink serves seven National Rail stations and has one interchange with the London Underground, at Wimbledon station for the District Line, and one with London Overground, at West Croydon for the East London Line ; one of the factors leading to its creation was that the area around Croydon has no Underground service.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

It marked the end, after Joseph Stalin's death, of a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between East and West was seriously interrupted.

A massive interchange near the Naval Weapons Station Earle is then encountered with exits for Industrial Way West, County Route 547 ( Wyckoff Road ), New Jersey Route 36, Hope Road, the Garden State Parkway, the Tinton Falls interchange ( Exit 105 ), and County Route 38 ( Wayside Road ).

Past this interchange, Route 28 becomes West Westfield Avenue and crosses into Roselle Park, where it continues through a mix of residences and commercial establishments, where it crosses over the Raritan Valley Line and intersects with County Route 617 ( Faitoute Avenue / Gordon Street ) before heading into the downtown area of Roselle Park.

Plans were put forward in 1974 and again in 2004 for a West Hampstead interchange, to connect the three West Hampstead stations in one complex, but plans were put on hold in 2007 owing to uncertainty over the North London Line rail franchise.

West of the interchange with County Route 508 in Kearny, Route 7 is the Belleville Turnpike, a historic road created in 1759.

North of Interstate 80, the road rejoins the route of the Newark-Pompton Turnpike and becomes a six-lane freeway, featuring a cloverleaf interchange with West Belt Road that provides access to the Wayne Route 23 Transit Center.

Route 52 comes to an end at an intersection with U. S. Route 9 ( New Road ), where the road continues northwest as West Laurel Drive, which heads through a residential neighborhood to an interchange with the Garden State Parkway.

The new interchange will allow motorists to more easily enter I-75 North from Moraine and also allow Moraine ’ s neighbor city, West Carrollton, to enter I-75 S without having to first enter the City of Moraine and then execute a U-turn.

Route 113 ( Uwchlan Avenue ) runs from the southwest, near Downingtown, East Caln Township and an interchange with US 30 to the northeast, near Chester Springs in West Pikeland Township.

Route 309 follows the Cross Valley Expressway from the junction of I-81 and PA-115 to the West Side communities and also has an interchange with River Street in the township.

The railway has a long-term objective to extend the line in both directions south to the West Yorkshire village of Addingham and north towards the North Yorkshire market town of Skipton ( where the E & BSR could one day interchange with services on the Airedale Line ).

Tamworth Station is a high and low level station and serves as an interchange between the West Coast Mainline and the Cross Country Route.

The western terminus of U. S. Highway 10 is in the town of West Fargo, North Dakota, at its interchange with Interstate 94.

Right after West Essex Park ends, Route 159 comes to another interchange, where it leaves Bloomfield Avenue and Route 506 and turns to the north along Oak Road.

Passengers with only one ticket can interchange at Kowloon Tong Station ( Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line ), then interchange at Hung Hom ( for West Rail Line ) or Mong Kok ( for Tsuen Wan Line ).

The station became the interchange between East Rail, West Rail and later, the proposed Sha Tin to Central Link.

Clapham Junction station opened on 2 March 1863, a joint venture of the L & SWR, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ) and the West London Extension Railway ( WLER ) as an interchange station for their lines.

New platforms were built at West Ham for interchange with the adjacent Underground station.