And the folly of paying track-mile subsidies led to the construction of an artificially tortuous route that maximized pork at the cost of operating efficiency.
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The multi-million pound 35-mile track project is due to be completed by 2015.
Earlier Eagle Mountain made a winning return when breaking the mile track record in in the Nayef Joel Stakes.
At the Miramar Speed Circuit in San Diego, grown men zip around a quarter mile track in miniature racing carts.
The new 15-mile track allows trains to run all the way from the west of Scotland through Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh, via Airdrie and Bathgate.
Within a few laps, he is circling the third-of-a-mile track in less than 20 seconds, for an average speed of more than 60 miles per hour.
The Helston Railway Preservation Company (HRPC) has a mile of track running through the estate.
The 2km (1.25 mile) track was restored by the 130 volunteers, who cleared vegetation and repaired the original track foundations.
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Even by 2025, when California's population is likely to have grown from today's 38m to 46m or so, the number of people within the coastal strip is unlikely to exceed 85, 000 per mile of track.
It's even possible to track exactly how much per mile the car costs you to maintain.
Most experts agree that an open oval such as the mile-long track at Churchill Downs would present problems for riderless horses.
Much of the work is expected to be carried out at night, with a so-called factory train laying a mile of new track and cables every night once construction is underway.
We climbed a half mile up a dirt track, past stray dogs and chickens, and waded into a cornfield.
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Put it this way: the Shinkansen plying the Tokaido route have access to some 180, 000 potential passengers per mile of high-speed track.
Cecil has indicated he would love to see the two best horses in the world face each other, although Black Caviar's trainer, Peter Moody, remains cautious about exposing his mare over Frankel's preferred distance of a mile on the undulating Goodwood track.
Fortunately, most of the time spent walking the Milford Track--a four-day, 33.5-mile walk on New Zealand's South Island--involves more marveling than worrying about the surroundings.
The National Weather Service warned that a mile-wide tornado reported by spotters had shifted its track and was moving "right at the city of Cleburne, " a community of about 15, 000 people in north Texas.
After a few months planning the event, I met the Lamborghini staff at Nardo Prototipo: a four-lane, 7.8-mile-long (12.6 km) circular track in southern Italy, where Ferrari , Maserati and other exotic carmakers test their vehicles.
Get this: In the history of track and field, only three high school milers have broken four minutes in the mile.
If an Olympic track coach hears a report that an unknown runner had broken the world record for the mile by two seconds, he might be skeptical or wonder if the runner was on drugs.
Getting there means a 100-mile detour through the mountains, first on the Edgerton Highway, then a rough gravel track for the last 60 miles.
With just over a mile to go, Earhardt, followed by veteran driver Mark Martin, went low on the track.
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