Yet, as Robert Caro explained long ago in The Power Broker, Robert Moses had a bias to build things like parkways and bridges that enabled cars and their passengers in and around New York and especially on Long Island.
"We're always keeping two things in mind: safety and how do you keep it looking like a parkway," Mr. Peters said.
Even the introduction of new business strategies -- like adding new Hollywood movies into the programming mix, renting out the theater more often to festivals and filmmakers, going dark on slow nights -- has not saved places like the Parkway Speakeasy in the East Bay, which went out of business last year.
For the first time, they will be allowed to use roads, like the parkways, that bar commercial traffic.
Most of the road is limited to non-commercial traffic, like most parkways in the state of New York; however, the portion south of Merrick Road is open to commercial traffic.
Mr. Dennison said many of the proposed remedies -- like widening the parkway in flood zones -- would simply move the problem elsewhere.
Margo Metzger, a spokeswoman for the division, confirmed that North Carolina's state parks along the parkway, like Mount Mitchell in Burnsville and Grandfather Mountain in Linville, were still open and free to the public.
Parkway were like nothing else in the still-nascent Aussie metalcore scene: five surfers from Byron Bay who didn't bother with complex guitar noodling, metal attitude, costumes (unless you count thongs and boardies) or grandiose solos.
During the race, Mr. Schundler emphasized bread-and-butter issues like cutting taxes and ending parkway tolls, and casting many issues as matters of morality rather than practicality.
The idea of getting rid of all those 35-cent stops on the parkway may seem like a small thing now, but ending tolls is the kind of populist rant that stations like 101.5 FM, New Jersey's voice of the lowest common denominator, loves to trumpet.
