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Parkway (disambiguation) (118 words) |
 | A parkway is a general designation of a type of limited-access highway in the US. |
 | Parkway is the name of a neighborhood in Oakland, California. |
 | Parkway is a popular name for Railway stations, such as Bristol Parkway railway station. |
| Parkway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (519 words) |
 | In the 1920s, the parkway system around New York City grew extensively under the direction of master builder Robert Moses, who saw parkways as a active means to promote automobile use and to transfer population from crowded urban areas onto undeveloped areas on Long Island. |
 | In the 1930s, the concept of the parkway was extended to the federal government, which constructed several national parkways designed for recreational driving and to commemorate historic routes. |
 | A recurring bit of humor about the name parkway has had some fun poked at it, as it is ironic that one would park on a driveway, and instead drive on a parkway. |