Meaning of Parkway | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place name:
2. A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
3. A path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.
   dated
4. A railway station built on the edge of a town, typically with a large car park to function as a park and ride interchange.
   Australia, British
5. A neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, named after two roads with Parkway in their name.
6. A scenic freeway.
   US
7. A village in Franklin County, Missouri, United States.
8. A divided highway with a landscaped median.
   US
9. A suburb of Wainuiomata, Wellington region, New Zealand, presumably named after a road in the area.
10. A tree lawn.
11. A hamlet in Ledbury parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO7135).
12. A northern suburb (housing estate) in Haverhill, West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL6646).

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Examples

“This street, transferred to the West Side park system in 1879, was extended and changed into a parkway passing through that pretty and well-improved urban space, Union Park”

“Where the boundary roads are the only roads, the whole strip is properly called a parkway; and this name is retained even when the space between the boundary roads is reduced to lowest terms and becomes nothing more than a shaded green ribbon, devoted perhaps to the separate use of the otherwise dangerous electric cars. In other words, parkways, like parks, may be absolutely formal or strikingly picturesque, according to circumstances.”

“This would give eight trees at each street intersection, which would finally grow into groups, over-arching and emphasizing these intersections, the blocks between these groups to be planted with smaller and more ornamental trees and forming, as it were, a section of a parkway.”

“In the case of offensive advertising in the neighborhood of a parkway, it is evident that such advertising is displayed to attract the attention of the people that frequent a public pleasure-ground.”

“As this scheme cannot be carried out without further legislation, application will have to be made to the General Court for authority to construct a way which will serve the purposes of a parkway and for ordinary travel.”

“A parkway, so far as it can be discriminated from a boulevard, includes more breadth of turf or planted ground and includes, usually, narrow passages of natural scenery of varying width, giving it a somewhat park-like character”

“Thus a parkway might vary in width from 100 to 1000 feet. An average width of 300 feet should provide a pleasing setting for the roadway in addition to a bridle path and hiking trail.”

“This highway, which is virtually a parkway and designed primarily for pleasure traffic, begins at Wilmington and extends northward along the Brandywine Creek to its junction with Valley Creek […]”

“Mr. Moses: Of course, the word "parkways" would have to be defined, as it has been to some extent by the courts, but what we intended by scenic highway is a highway like Storm King. That is not a parkway, but is a scenic highway […]”

“A parkway is a combined park and road. Strictly speaking, it is a road through a park and is indistinguishable from the park areas which it traverses.”

“Natchez Trace is a parkway. It is not a freeway nor a throughway nor a speedway”

“As they cruised, she remembered the old saw: Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?”

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