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  Strand Underpass - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Strand Underpass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
thumbThe Strand Underpass (sometimes incorrectly called the Kingsway Underpass) is a vehicle tunnel in central London connecting Waterloo Bridge to Kingsway near Holborn.
Underground, the new underpass is constructed in a concrete box within the former tram tunnel: the road surface however is at the original track level.
At the southern end of Kingsway the road rises to the surface on a new floor supported by metal pillars.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Strand-Underpass.html   (220 words)

  
 sandiego.citysearch.com > Sports & Recreation
Swimming, sunbathing and shell-seeking are big at Silver Strand State Beach, a narrow, sandy strip located along a 7-mile isthmus that connects Coronado and Imperial Beach.
The beach and bayside nature preserve, which can be reached by an underpass, are regulated by the California State Parks system.
The Silver Strand has a great bike path stretching almost 10 miles to Coronado, which is also popular with inline skaters.
entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile/91217?p=1   (388 words)

  
 Weave
Each strand is broken into two or three segments by cross-strands.
An implied underpass is the trough of a strand located directly beneath the bridge of a cross-strand.
The Square slides to any space on the strand on which it is located.
www.chessvariants.com /other.dir/weave.html   (1831 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page : S/ST/STR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Strand is: The municipality Strand in Norway.A village, Strand, in the municipality of Wûnseradiel, the Netherlands A beach or shore (from which come other meanings)The Strand, a famous road in London, England.The Strand Magazine, a British popular monthly founded in the 1890s (named for the above..
Stranded wire is composed of a bundle of small-gauge wires wrapped in a single piece of insulation to make a larger conductor.
Stranded wire has a larger cross section than one small filament, producing less electrical resistance, but is more flexible than a single, thick strand.
wikien.info /browse.php?title=S/ST/STR   (11039 words)

  
 Thisweek Online
The 0.3-mile long first phase would be constructed on the south edge of the Knox Lumber, Patio Town and a portion of the Apple Valley Ready Mix properties west of Interstate 35W.
Todd Strand, president of Patio Town, while saying he opposed the road alignment since it will end the business at its current location, was also concerned about the timeline for which the business would be relocated.
Strand said the opening of its new Brooklyn Park location was a two-year process.
www.thisweek-online.com /2003/april/11csah5extend.html   (386 words)

  
 Subterranea Britannica: Sites:
The construction was completed on schedule and the new Strand underpass opened to road traffic on 21st January 1964.
When visited by members of Subterranea Britannica in 1996, the remaining section of the subway including Holborn Station was found to be in good condition with the twin tram tracks intact throughout.
Strand Station was demolished during the construction of the Strand Underpass although traces of it are still visible beneath the up ramp.
www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/sites/k/kingsway_tram_subway/index4.shtml   (747 words)

  
 JUNE 8, 1999
The need for the Peach Avenue Underpass is because of the increasing numbers and lengths of trains causing delays to local traffic and the availability for emergency vehicles uninterrupted access to the north part of the city.
There are annual fees for disposal of underpass seepage, which are estimated at $20,000.
The potential risk there is that the amount of water that accumulates in that underpass could be greater than what was in that model.
ci.marshfield.wi.us /minutes/Archives/2000/000516.htm   (1133 words)

  
 CMI Transit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The bridge is on the same level and alignment as the original section of Grafton Road which it replaces.
Constructed from precast concrete panels, the chambers were installed below The Strand and at the Stanley Street entrance to the Domain.
Columns at the beginning and end of the underpass ease the transition (into and out of the short tunnel) for motorists, avoiding sudden changes in light and allowing their vision to adjust.
cmi.transit.govt.nz /html/ggp/ggpActivities.htm   (894 words)

  
 Underpass - ABC News: Some See Image of Virgin Mary at Overpass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Work on the underpass, along with that for a companion project, the new parking garage shown in the background, is scheduled for completion later this
The reason for the underpass went by just a few minutes before the Former Mayor Don Etter, who began the underpass project, unveiled the plaque for the
The Strand Underpass (sometimes incorrectly called the Kingsway Underpass) is a vehicle tunnel in central
wcolo.com /wcl/underpass.htm   (215 words)

  
 The Coronado Inn - Beaches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An underpass provides access to the bayside beach and picnic area, and Loews Coronado Bay Resort.
Tidelands Park itself is a 22-acre playground with a fitness course, extensive children's playgrounds, ball fields, picnic tables, restrooms and free public parking.
Farther south, at Glorietta Bay on Strand Way, is a boat-launch ramp, park and playground and small sandy beach.
www.coronadoinn.com /beaches.html   (883 words)

  
 Underpass - Krog Street Underpass, Atlanta, GA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Shibuya Underpass Society is down that way.
EVALUATION OF A WILDLIFE UNDERPASS ON VERMONT STATE HIGHWAY 289 IN A divided concrete underpass was installed under the highway to accommodate The underpass was located along the stream to connect wetland habitat that
The new underpass at the intersection of Independence Boulevard and Albemarle Road opened Wednesday.
www.publiccall.com /pc/underpass.html   (172 words)

  
 City of Saint Peter, Minnesota: Current City Council Minutes
Consent Agenda - A motion was made by Brinker, seconded by Strand, to remove consideration of the termination of Patricia Rosenow from the consent agenda.
Upon roll call, Councilmembers Strand, Pfeifer, Kvamme, Gover, Douglas and Mayor Hawbaker voting aye, Councilmember Brinker abstaining, the Resolution was declared passed and adopted.
Councilmember Strand voiced his reasons for proposing the increased wages and indicated that although it might be difficult for Councilmembers to discuss establishing their own wage, he felt most people would not object to the Council receiving cost-of-living adjustments.
www.ci.st-peter.mn.us /city/minutes.php3   (8632 words)

  
 ABD - Congestion Charging
In 2001, two vital routes along Endell St. and Monmouth St., to the Strand and Trafalgar Sq have been severed; short cuts vital to access within central areas have forced traffic to use the major roads such as High Holborn, Shaftesbury Avenue, The Strand and Kingsway.
The Strand has already been doctored with a full length central paved area and a bus lane reducing traffic to an available single lane crawl in each direction.
The road sign directing drivers into the city via an underpass into Broad Street has been covered up, and strangers to the city are now directed to a longer route.
www.abd.org.uk /congestion_charging.htm   (1524 words)

  
 Helderberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The programme, due for completion by mid-December, represents an investment in infrastructure by Heartland Properties, which is responsible for the redevelopment of AECI land between Somerset West and Strand.
It follows the R12-million investment by Heartland in the AECI Centenary bridge, which opened last year and crosses the R44 Stellenbosch-Strand road to link the retail and commercial Triangle with the industrial Interchange area.
"Another is construction of an additional left slip from the R44 underpass to the N2 turnoff." She says that within The Triangle, the spine road from McDonald's circle to the Toys'R'Us circle will be widened to a four-lane section with a median.
www.news24.com /Regional_Papers/Components/Category_Article_Text_Template/0,2430,303_1707563~E,00.html   (384 words)

  
 Cumbria Online - The English Lake District and Cumbria's favourite website
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Sgt Paul Jenner at the Strand Road underpass where the youths congregate, brandishing an £80 fixed penalty notice for disorder
Officers says the members of the gang have been involved in throwing stones at moving vehicles, attacking innocent passers-by and banging on doors and windows of houses.
Their anti-social behaviour has resulted in one 85-year-old woman moving out of her home temporarily and a man being kicked and punched as he made his way through an underpass.
www.cumbria-online.co.uk /viewarticle.asp?id=190870   (517 words)

  
 Turtle Prion Gene
The beta strand underpass regions also proves to be very stable, though few residues of helix A per se are fixed.
However, turtle prion strongly supports an earlier concept that the invariant structural core of the prion protein is based primarily on packing at the underpass region and spatially adjacent domains.
A paradoxical aspect of the prion protein is the evolution and function of the second loop (between alpha helix B and C).
www.mad-cow.org /00/mar00_turtle.html   (6698 words)

  
 DSI Europe > Seismic Upgrading   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A new column was installed at the end of the pier cap beam to support an additional 3.6 m long concrete bolster, which increased flexural capacity.
Post-tensioned strand tendons placed in parallel, on each side of the pier cap beam, connected new concrete to the existing box girders.
A large steel bracket, attached to the bridge web at the tendon fixed end, allowed for uniform distribution of prestressing forces to the entire structure.
www.dywidag-systems.com /docs/europe.php?content=Cahuenga   (91 words)

  
 The City of Coronado Official Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With a large grass-filled park, restrooms, playground equipment, and a small beach area, the Glorietta Bay Beach can provide hours of fun, and a relaxing time for all individuals.
An underpass allows access to bayside beach and picnic area and Loews Coronado Bay Resort.
Overnight RV camping is available at $14 a night; $12 for seniors; $1 per dog.
www.coronado.ca.us /beachesbays.asp   (129 words)

  
 House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 14 Jul 1998 (pt 7)
We are keen to see aggressive bull bars off the road, but we must ensure that any action we take deals effectively with the complexities involved.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what has been the total cost for each of the past 10 years of the Strand Underpass in respect of (a) capital costs and (b) maintenance works.
The City of Westminster is entirely responsible for the Strand Underpass.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo980714/text/80714w07.htm   (1049 words)

  
 City and County of Swansea - Leisure and Tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There were also a generous variety of pubs and cafes where the reporters and prints, old hacks and old soaks, taught young Thomas the ways of the world.
Before the river was diverted, the Strand was a busy waterfront full of pubs and warehouses, some of which remain.
Further along, the Strand turn left into the Green Dragon Lane - one of the few cobbled streets left in Swansea - past Hwyrnos, where the internationally famous Welsh Feast takes place, thence back into Wind Street.
www.swansea.gov.uk /index.cfm?articleid=382   (321 words)

  
 Tucson Weekly : arts : Unfamiliar Road
Stephen Farley is best known around Tucson for two very urban projects--one, his tile mural on the concrete canyons of downtown's Broadway underpass, and two, his campaign to knock some sense about public transportation into this car-crazy town.
The success of the Broadway underpass helped him win public art commissions out of state.
And his subsequent travels have allowed him to venture out into open country, far from the madding crowds and cars of the city.
www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/arts/Content?oid=oid:46240   (1210 words)

  
 Friends of the Florida Panther Refuge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His home range is from the Catherine Island area on private land to the north of the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, east near the town of Sunniland on State Road 29, and south of Janes's Scenic Dive in Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve.
He uses the wildlife underpass crossing under I75, between the Florida Panther Refuge and Fakahatchee Strand.
Florida Panther #75 (above with kitten) is a female panther born June 1998 in Bear Island and weighs 70 pounds.
www.floridapanther.org /posse-sample-update.htm   (636 words)

  
 On Campus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
James Oles, assistant art professor at Wellesly College and Mexico city-based curator, presents "Billboards on Adobe Walls: Photographs of Mexican Architecture." Oles will give a slide lecture on works of foreign and Mexican photographers.
The concept of such collaboration is reflected in their art exhibit, "Warriors and Dreamers," which is currently showing at the Joseph Gross Gallery.
The gallery is directly across the underpass from Architecture and is next to the Art building, on the southeast corner of Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.
wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/90/11/02_1_m.html   (305 words)

  
 ELSNET-list archive
How to get there: Please note that this is not our usual place in the Strand.
The venue at 150 Stamford Street is close to the traffic roundabout at the south end of Waterloo Bridge and the main entrance to Waterloo Station (Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern, British Rail).
Take the underpass in the direction of The National Theatre and exit to Stamford Street where indicated.
www.elsnet.org /xevents/14Nov2002-14u33.26.html   (285 words)

  
 The MidWeek News | Local   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
“There was major street flooding, ponding, railroad underpass flooding, many basement backups” and some sanitary backups.
The water exploded from 7.5 million gallons to 55 million gallons in the flash flood.
Streetlights give an erie tone to the rushing waters near the Annie Glidden Road railroad underpass.
www.midweeknews.com /local/articles/060204-rain.html   (539 words)

  
 Loews Coronado Bay Resort | Hotel Review | San Diego | Frommers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This luxury resort on the Silver Strand opened in 1991, situated on a secluded 15-acre peninsula, well removed from San Diego and even downtown Coronado, 5 miles away.
It's perfect for those who prefer a self-contained resort in a get-away-from-it-all location, and is surprisingly successful in appealing to business travelers, convention groups, vacationing families, and couples.
A private pedestrian underpass leads to nearby Silver Strand Beach.
www.frommers.com /destinations/sandiego/H31311.html   (306 words)

  
 Coronado Visitor Center - California
Silver Strand State Beach is located 4.5 miles south of the village of Coronado.
Overnight RV camping is available on a first-come, first-served basis at Silver Strand.
RVs must be self-contained with a closed water system, running water and a toilet.
www.coronadovisitorcenter.com /coronado-recreation.html   (1954 words)

  
 PH: London Tunnel meet
Was thinking of organising a bash but I did not fancy the width restrictions on the Rotherhide!
Anyway from what I can tell, the corker is actually the Strand underpass northbound form waterloo bridge!
Along to Waterloo and finish off with the strand underpass followed by Parklane underpass!
www.pistonheads.com /gassing/topic.asp?f=13&h=&t=156100   (597 words)

  
 Parks and picnic spots | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Silver Strand State Beach: Located 4.5 miles south of Coronado along the Silver Strand.
An underpass allows access to a bayside beach and picnic area.
Glorietta Bay Park: Located south of the Municipal Pool on Strand Way.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050515/news_lz1x15picnic.html   (1069 words)

  
 La Plante Productions - Widows
Harry Rawlins had been masterminding raids and robberies for almost twenty years.
The hijack of a security van in the Strand Underpass would bring the gang thousands — but the job went disastrously and fatally wrong..
Harry always said that if anything ever happened to him Dolly would be all right: Joe and Terry would take over, the team would look after everyone.
www.laplanteproductions.com /books/book_titles/novels_of_television_series/widows.phtml   (261 words)

  
 Coronado Cays Lifestyles - Boating & Fishing
There are fire rings on the beach and a long dog run at the north end.
Silver Strand State Beach is located 4.5 miles south of Coronado Village along the Silver Strand.
The beach includes fire rings, lifeguards, restrooms, and showers.
www.coronadocays.com /beaches.htm   (136 words)

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