ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) (04/15/85)
> This is prompted by a drive I took yesterday on the Garden State Parkway > (For those of you in the civilized world, "Parkway" is > New Jerseyian for "Toll Expressway"). Ummm... not quite. In the New York area (and probably elsewhere), "parkway" connotes a limited-access road (toll or not) on which trucks are generally not permitted. References: <366@ho95b.UUCP>
ask@cbdkc1.UUCP (A.S. Kamlet) (04/20/85)
>> This is prompted by a drive I took yesterday on the Garden State Parkway >> (For those of you in the civilized world, "Parkway" is >> New Jerseyian for "Toll Expressway"). > > Ummm... not quite. In the New York area (and probably elsewhere), > "parkway" connotes a limited-access road (toll or not) on which > trucks are generally not permitted. But, can someone explain why we drive on a parkway, but park on a driveway? -- Art Kamlet AT&T Bell Laboratories Columbus {ihnp4 | cbosgd}!cbrma!ask
pauldan@hou2e.UUCP (P.SAUNDERS) (04/22/85)
>But, can someone explain why we drive on a parkway, but park on a driveway?
Apparently, you've never witnessed the Garden State Parkway on a sunny
summer weekend. World's biggest parking lot.
Dan Masi