Poor radar and lack of resources make it an ideal transit point.

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Brazil is said to have become an important transit point for cocaine shipments from Bolivia, Peru and Colombia on route towards Europe and Africa.

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The attorney general also cited the U.S. border with Canada as a "transit point" for suspected terrorists and said the administration will increase its surveillance there.

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She praises it for offering a transit point for Soviet Jews when other countries held back for fear of attracting the unwelcome attention of pro-Palestinian groups.

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Cape Town has become a destination and a transit point.

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Johannesburg resident Masego Maponyane said the city's new lease of life meant that visitors were no longer treating it as simply a transit point on the way to other destinations.

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Since the 1980s, when Rio became a transit point for cocaine heading to Europe, the Brazilian state has given over the monopoly of violence in these areas to drug gangs and militias.

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Manhattan is a major transit point for telecommunications.

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Lebanon is one of a few countries not signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), making it an easy transit point for wildlife smugglers, and it has few domestic animal-protection laws.

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Opponents point out that unlike areas in other countries, mass transit is only economic viable in areas with sufficient density and that on a large scale, massive public transit programs have no chance of becoming self-sufficient.

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