From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
> Danny Wier scripsit:
>
> > A type of freeway in a city. Why "park" is in the word I do not know,
unless
> > parkways originally led to parks....
>
> They are so named because surrounded by parkland. In New York State
> at least, highways with "Parkway" in their name have special rules:
> no trucks.
Except apparently in Queens where any road with more than two lanes is
either a Parkway, Boulevard or Turnpike (e.g. Utopia Parkway, Queens
Boulevard, Union Turnpike et al).
David