Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cbdkc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!ask From: ask@cbdkc1.UUCP (A.S. Kamlet) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Parkway Message-ID: <943@cbdkc1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 22:48:28 EST Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.943 Posted: Fri Apr 19 22:48:28 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Apr-85 04:38:17 EST References: <366@ho95b.UUCP> Reply-To: ask@cbdkc1.UUCP (Art Kamlet) Followup-To: <3574@alice.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 11 >> 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