Shipping companies are now weighing up the risks of using the short-cut route to Europe via the Suez canal.
Those campers chose to stay behind overnight while others were led out by vehicle caravan through an emergency route cut through fallen trees, Jordan said.
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Thirty-three miners have been trapped 2, 300 feet underground since a rockslide cut off their exit route on August 5.
He said the route would cut car journeys and also confirmed that the project would allow for tourist trains at Tweedbank station.
The route would cut journey times to about 50 minutes, with work due to begin in 2015 if the plan is approved.
Campaigners, including Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and Transport 2000, claimed the route will cut through the legally protected countryside and affect the ancient woodland and a nature reserve.
The new route will cut journey times to Paris by 20 minutes to two hours and 15 minutes, and to Brussels by 25 minutes to one hour and 51 minutes.
Large parts of the Highlands and north-east Scotland have been cut off, with the main route - the A9 - shut in several places.
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It took St Helens until the 17th minute to open their account, with Cayless powering over after Sean Long's cut-out pass gave him a route to the line.
Such as sell your route data to advertisers and cut deals with the stop lights to get you there a bit faster? (if it knows that no one is coming, why wait?).
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Mr Clegg said a route in central Sheffield would have cut through a 4, 000 home community housing development, the state-of-the-art Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham and a stretch of ancient woodland.
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The planned new 250mph rail route between London and Birmingham aims to cut the journey time to 49 minutes.
Train journey times between Leeds and Manchester are to be cut under plans to electrify the North TransPennine Express rail route.
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Some drivers even diverted from the carefully planned route to take gravel roads and a barely-cut road still under construction.
The old-school breakfast joint sprang up in Route 66's heyday, and waitresses still deliver thick-cut French toast and plate-defying omelettes - along with free doughnut holes and Milk Duds - near the fabled road's starting point.
At present, lorries use the city as a short cut from junction 18 of the M4 - along London Road and Cleveland Bridge - en route to the south coast.
Sessions' jogging route usually took her down Gainesville's main street to a small dirt trail that cut through the woods.
U.S. and British airstrikes have cut off the Taliban air supply routes to the north, leaving the Taliban only a long circular route through western Afghanistan to supply the north, Abdullah said.
Syracuse couldn't keep the Fighting Irish down any longer than that, though, as the Orange saw their 15-point lead cut to three points by halftime, then fell behind early in the second half and never recovered en route to a 79-68 loss to the Irish.
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