to a less accessible location). ¶ 8. In contrast, we have not allowed compensation for losses that occur when traffic is only routed away from a business, as the owner of a business does not have a property right in the flow of traffic to the business. See Howe v. State Highway Bd., 128 Vt. 278, 283, 187 A.2d 342, 345 (1963) (“Benefits attached to the currents of public travel are not vested rights and so diversion of traffic does not furnish a ground for compensation.”); see also Spear v. State Highway Bd., 122 Vt. 406, 408, 175 A.2d 511, 513 (1961) (stating that when a highway relocation project has resulted in the loss of business, “the legislature has never attempted to provide compensation____Our statute relates business loss to property taken, not to highway rel 91 (Neb. 1964) (<HOLDING>); accord State v. Ensley, 164 N.E.2d 342, 349
holding that a landowner who lost a strip of property to a highway widening project could not recover losses caused by concurrent placement of a median strip because when less than the entire property is taken compensation for damage to the remainder can be awarded only if such damage is caused by the taking and cjonstruction of the median not the taking caused the alleged damage holding that property owner still has relief in the form of the return of his property though condemnation was complete and a highway was constructed across the property holding that general losses must be sufficiently disaggregated from losses caused by the initial abuser when determining those losses caused by the continuing traffic of the images holding that a landowner whose property was taken in a highway widening project could recover only for the lost land and not for losses caused by traffic islands constructed as part of the same project holding that loss of access resulting from a median strip constructed as part of a highway widening project was a proper consideration because any factor that has a present quantifiable effect on the market value of the property is proper as an element of damages