Recent examples have included Stansted Airport, Heathrow's fifth terminal, Manchester Airport's second runway and the east London river crossing.
Still, Mr Maroun has not given up, and has managed to force the question of the new river crossing on to the state ballot this November.
Currently run by Severn River Crossing Plc, the bridge will return to public ownership when the firm has collected a fixed sum of money from tolls, expected to be around 2017.
Severn River Crossing Plc has been asked to comment.
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In fact, just upstream from where the Detroit River International Crossing is to be built, stands the Ambassador Bridge completed in 1929.
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The extension would not interfere with the other major river-crossing project that has been championed since the demise of the ARC project: Amtrak's Gateway project, which would add new tunnels to connect the northeast corridor lines in New Jersey to Penn Station in Manhattan.
This new International Bridge is more than just a new and better means of crossing a river.
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It wanders around, takes you down dead ends, makes you climb precipices and tells you that there is just no way you're crossing that river without getting wet and possibly drowning.
Yet many managers and boards continue to pay close attention to it without fully understanding the caveats the equivalent of someone who cannot swim feeling confident of crossing a river having been told that it is, on average, four feet deep, says Jaidev Iyer of the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
The number of migrants crossing the Evros river into Orestiada has soared this year.
U.S. convoys crossing the Sava River are rolling through some of Bosnia's most hotly contested lands, now firmly under the control of NATO Implementation Force troops.
So maybe the first thing the Rangers have to do to coax Parise into crossing the Hudson River is send him and his team home for the summer.
The process for seeking approval from federal agencies is so disjointed and slow that pushing a line over a national park or river might as well be crossing the Styx.
According to Mapquest it is about an hour and a half each way, but it involves crossing the Hudson River either at the George Washington Bridge or the Tappan Zee.
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Thousands of Russian fans, wearing national emblems and carrying national flags to commemorate Russia Day, a national holiday, were crossing the Vistula River in an organized march when several groups confronted each other near a bridge in central Warsaw.
Ann Pewter, 74, from Tavistock, Devon, died at the King Harry Ferry crossing point on the River Fal on 20 March.
The recent returnees are understood to have taken a considerable risk in the crossing of the Mereb river which forms the border at that point.
With this plan firmly in mind, Hooker called back the Union troops when they advanced to some high ground after having gained a tactical surprise with an easy crossing of the Rappahannock River.
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At the triangle where the borders of Israel, Syria and Jordan meet along the Yarmouk River, a lone jeep is seen crossing uninterrupted from Jordan into Syria.
The Dartford Crossing links the M25 across the River Thames and carries about 150, 000 vehicles a day.
Local resident U Than Htun said the boat was crossing the mouth of the Sittwe River on its way to Sittwe, the state capital some 27km (17 miles) away by sea, when it sank.
An hour outside Mandalay, a bumpy road ends at a ferry crossing over a tributary of the Irrawaddy River.
Cormac Burke from the Ulster Museum said the place along the river where they were discovered is a well known crossing point and the Bann was a well known thoroughfare.
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At the Ishasha border crossing, Melchisedek said they had to swim through a river to cross over into Uganda since it was impossible to use the guarded border.
Crossing downtown Seoul is the Cheonggye stream -- a river that was covered by a road until it was unearthed in 2005 and transformed into one of the city center's most popular urban oases and worth a stroll in the evening.
The country house was in a town near the Piave River, a trip the doctor could make in three days, by crossing the lagoon by gondola to Portegrandi and then continuing in a carriage.
The dramatic Hollyford Track starts in the midst of lowland forest, crossing mountain streams and passing pretty waterfalls as it follows the broad Hollyford River valley all the way to the sea at Martins Bay.
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