Motorists are being warned to avoid the main motorway link from London to Heathrow Airport, after it was closed to repair cracks in its structure.

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"It became clear that the time necessary to repair it would be too long a period to deny our customers a direct link to lower Manhattan, " Mr. Prendergast said.

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Verizon said Wednesday that it planned to offer telephone service to those residents though Verizon Voice Link, a wireless technology that will connect to their home telephones, rather than repair the underground cables.

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