Parkway

Many parkways originally intended for scenic, recreational driving have evolved into major urban and commuter routes.

[5] Other parkways, such as Park Presidio Boulevard in San Francisco, California,[6] were designed to serve larger volumes of traffic.

During the early 20th century, the meaning of the word was expanded to include limited-access highways designed for recreational driving of automobiles, with landscaping.

These parkways originally provided scenic routes without very slow or commercial vehicles, at grade intersections, or pedestrian traffic.

But their success led to more development, expanding a city's boundaries, eventually limiting the parkway's recreational driving use.

The Arroyo Seco Parkway between Downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena, California, is an example of lost pastoral aesthetics.

In the 1930s, as part of the New Deal, the U.S. federal government constructed National Parkways designed for recreational driving and to commemorate historic trails and routes.

An example is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built Blue Ridge Parkway in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia.

The Arroyo Seco Parkway from Pasadena to Los Angeles, built in 1940, was the first segment of the vast Southern California freeway system.

In the New York metropolitan area, contemporary parkways are predominantly limited-access highways or freeways restricted to non-commercial traffic, excluding trucks and tractor-trailers.

The Parkway West (I-376) runs through the Fort Pitt Tunnel and links Downtown to Pittsburgh International Airport, southbound I-79, Imperial, Pennsylvania, and westbound US 22/US 30.

The parkway opened in 2012 as a bypass of a section of US 202 between the two towns; it had originally been proposed as a four-lane freeway before funding for the road was cut.

[9][10][11] In Minneapolis, the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway system has 50 miles (80 km) of streets designated as parkways.

They are highly trafficked in most cases, transporting people between neighborhoods quicker than a typical city street.

The Australian Capital Territory uses the term "parkway" to refer to roadways of a standard approximately equivalent to what would be designated as an "expressway", "freeway", or "motorway" in other areas.