The legal and physical corridor of land within which a road, railway, canal or pipeline is built and operated, and the priority rules that govern who or what may proceed first at a shared crossing point. Acquiring right of way, whether by purchase, grant or eminent domain, is often the largest cost and the largest political obstacle in building new transport infrastructure. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ConcernThe legal corridor a transport route occupies, and the priority rules for shared crossing points. 1 FAQs
What is right of way in transport?
Right of way is the legal and physical corridor a road, railway, canal or pipeline is built and operated within, plus the priority rules for who proceeds first at a shared crossing.
Right of way is both the legal and physical corridor of land within which a road, railway, canal or pipeline is built and operated, and the priority rules that decide who or what may proceed first at a shared crossing point. Acquiring that corridor, whether by purchase, grant or eminent domain, is often the largest cost and the largest political obstacle in building new transport infrastructure.
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Built on right of way granted by the Pacific Railway Act land grants
Acquiring the Canal Zone corridor was the project's largest cost and political obstacle
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Right-of-way (Transportation)
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Rights-of-way in the physical sense include controlled-access highways, railroads, canals, hiking paths, bridle paths for horses, bicycle paths, the routes taken by high-voltage lines (also known as wayleave), utility tunnels, or simply the paved or unpaved local roads used by different types of traffic.
Right of way (Wikipedia)
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A right of way (also right-of-way) is a specific route that people, animals, vehicles, watercraft, or utility lines travel, or the legal status that gives them the right to do so.
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