Citations:parkway

Parkway without cars

• 1925 May 9, “County Park Commission Said To Have Acquired 35 Acres of Hunt Estate”, in The Daily Argus, Mount Vernon, NY:

  The Westchester County Park commission is announcing today that all the land has been acquired for a new parkway which will connect the present Bronx Parkway with the recently projected cross-county parkway. The tract just obtained starts from the Bronx Parkway at Gramatan avenue and runs southeast through the old Hunt Estate to join the Cross Country Parkway near the sit ^[sic] of the present club house of the Mount Vernon Country club. It will be developed as a neighborhood park with only horseback trails and footpaths, and no automobile roads.

• 1912, The Town Planning Review‎^[1], volume 3, page vii:

  The New Walk at Leicester is a pedestrian parkway over a hundred years Old, and suggests how many a footpath on the Outskirts of our towns might be preserved, instead of being merged into a wheeled-traffic road.

Parkway as right of way

• 1896, Sylvester Baxter, “The Park System of Boston”, in Paving and Municipal Engineering, volume 9, page 267:

  The Parkway is a line of communication for pleasure purposes, distinguished by picturesque and continually varying scenery, with water-courses as the central feature for the greater part of its length, and furnishing the leading motive of the design, the space here and there expanding into genuine parks.

• 1916
• 1920