The terminal itself became a sort of grand pedestrian thoroughfare from one building to another.
The geographic location of Fosterville positioned the neighborhood to be a grand thoroughfare to the many entrances of Mill Creek Park such as Old Furnace Road.
Everyone expected it to emerge as some kind of grand thoroughfare, but it had only a few five-story apartment houses.
Even the aristocratic avenue Foch, the widest, grandest thoroughfare in Paris, lined with handsome white stone facades, seemed windswept and bleak.
The old, steep Tverskaya Street, that grand thoroughfare, had been renamed Gorky Street, for the writer who had championed the Revolution.
Such was the grand thoroughfare of Typee.
Line 1 runs underneath Chang'an Avenue, the city's grand east-west thoroughfare, right through the heart of Beijing with stops on either side of Tiananmen Square.
The grand thoroughfare, anchored at each end by a large square, had a symmetrical pattern of streets on both its flanks.
To intellectuals of the time, and later, the buildings lining these grand thoroughfares were repressive in another way.
Although new restaurants, chefs and menus are springing up all over town, three notable entries are on or near the Champs-elysees, the city's grand thoroughfare.