路線

My advice is to adopt a new line

The President took a hard line

Passengers must take the footbridge to cross the railroad tracks

May I have a bus route map

The rail-line was carried under the Tsugaru Strait to Hokkaido

Can I change the route

If a high hill stood between A and B, it was important to decide whether the line should climb over it, pierce it with a tunnel, or make a detour to avoid it

It then became necessary to settle the best route for the line to follow; and that was determined, in the first place, by the shape of the land it had to cross

In other words, the merits, etc. of making detours are the consideration of the attitudes of the landowners whose property the line would cross, the convenience of other towns and villages, as well as connection with other railway lines

Even after being approved, difficulties might arise in the actual construction of the line

A piece of railway in use today is therefore the product of a long series of decisions reached on many different grounds, at different times

The latter will continue to develop along their own paths according to the needs of their own speakers