Sat on several parkway for hours, especially those that go to beaches!
Actually turned my car off.

…is that parkways are supposed to be scenic, with greenery in the dividers, and driveways are places you drive into, possibly after a long drive on the parkway! Makes perfect sense doesn’t it?

Moses was well-off, had an almost guaranteed lifetime job, and thought of driving as a pleasant experience based on his experiences in the early decades of the century -- a drive in the country with the family kind of thing. He was opaque to the fact that it was an everyday necessity for ever-growing millions of people in urban areas, who would have been better off with good subway and bus service. Instead he built huge highway networks with cloverleaf and other, more complex, interchanges so drivers never had to stop just to turn in a different heading. Everything was sacrificed for the sake of the single-driver car, including tearing up whole neighborhoods (especially 'ethnic' ones) and building bridges too low for city buses to pass under. The result was ever more and more traffic, more pollution, more congestion, and longer drive times. Meanwhile, Moses -- who never held a driver's license -- was chauffeured wherever he wanted to go in a limousine with one of the first mobile phones, which effectively served as his office on wheels, so he never had to suffer the boredom or frustration of long trips in heavy traffic. He and his minions also consulted with planners in other cities -- notably Pittsburgh, check out those tangled overpasses! -- so that most major American cities ended up with the same problems of too much traffic and not enough mass transportation. Too late to change it, too, with possible routes for trains already rejected to build more highways.

If you've ever got a week or two to devote to reading a single book, try tackling Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker, a masterpiece of biography which reveals a great deal about how our modern world came to be, as decided by one man who never won an election.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/publish-the-powerbroker-uncut
https://shop.nyhistory.org/products/mug-power-broker

ETA: If you don't want to give up that much time (and I'm not kidding, it's 1300 pages) try reading one chapter -- titled "One Mile" -- to get a flavor of the consequences and capriciousness of Moses' "vision".

And your question will be answered.

what are these things?



Multi-lane highways are generally referred to as freeways (except in Los Angeles, where freeways are known locally as parking lots).

Turnpikes (usually shown in green on maps) are privately constructed freeways on which tolls are levied; thruways, parkways and expressways (plus others) may also be toll roads. The name turnpike comes from the first toll highways, the entrance to which was barred by revolving poles called ‘turn pikes’.

https://www.justlanded.com/english/United-States/Articles/Travel-Leisure/American-Roads


Headed north out of NYC

Taconic State Parkway

on my post...

Your fingers have fingertips but your toes don’t have toetips.
Yet…
You can tiptoe but you can’t tipfinger.

But when it is shipped by land it is a shipment?

Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around?

But if that were true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut.



RIP Robert Schimmel