The business of publishing road atlases and maps, previously dominated in North America by players like Rand McNally and AAA, was a data-scarcity-driven business (real-time position and road condition information was too expensive to collect and deliver to the point of use).
Achieving a temporary ceasefire, even a partial and fragile one, is a necessary though insufficient condition for the road map to proceed.
Under one scheme, road stewards were surveying the condition of roads and had identified nearly 90 potholes which needed to be fixed quickly.
That novel approach has good intentions but also raises privacy concerns: While insurance companies generally do not offer coverage for extensive screenings, and Biophysical guarantees confidentiality, no one wants to be denied coverage years down the road for a "preexisting condition" based on an out-of-range or perhaps ambiguous biomarker result, especially if they remain asymptomatic.
Following extensive engineering work, Dumfries and Galloway Council judged the road was in a good enough condition to reopen.
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Mr Crace's road novel is vivid on its technologically regressive condition, although sketchy on the details of what went wrong.
Although it has reopened, some parts of the road surface were reported to be in a poor condition, BBC Travel said.
He had been in a critical condition in hospital since the shooting at the Beauclair Drive and Woolton Road junction in Wavertree.
Most of the properties in the area, which lies between Back Rockfield Road, Walton Breck Road, Sleepers Hill and Saker Street, are small terraced houses in poor condition with high vacancy rates.
Mr Phillips, who had a rare brain condition which made him unsteady on his feet, had been seen walking in the road, causing traffic to dodge him.
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