Parkway 

A parkway is a landscaped thoroughfare. The term is especially utilized for a street in a park or connecting to a park from which trucks and other heavy lorries are excluded.

Throughout the years, numerous different kinds of roads have been labeled parkways. The term might be used to describe city streets as narrow as 2 lanes with a landscaped typical, wide landscaped setbacks, or both.

The term has likewise been applied to picturesque highways and to limited-access roads more typically. Lots of parkways originally intended for beautiful, leisure driving have actually progressed into significant urban and commuter paths.

The first parkways in the United States were developed throughout the late 19th century by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as roads that separated pedestrians, bicyclists, equestrians, and horse carriages, such as the Eastern Parkway, which is credited as the world’s first parkway, and Ocean Parkway in the New York City district of Brooklyn. The terminology “parkway” to specify this type of road was coined by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted in their proposition to link city and rural parks with “enjoyment roads”.