Sentence examples for parkway from inspiring English sources

The nearest stations to Boscastle are Bodmin parkway or Exeter St David's, with regular buses from both.

But language myths are not always self-flattering: many speakers think their languages are unusually illogical or difficult witness the plethora of books along the lines of "Only in English do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway; English must be the craziest language in the world!" What such pop-Whorfian stories share is a (natural) tendency to exoticise languages.

The success of the parkway system led to the introduction of the freeway, which is a divided highway with no conflicting traffic movements and no access from adjoining properties.

This grew from the parkway, which had many historical precedents but was introduced in its modern form in 1858 with the work of the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for Central Park in New York City.

The parkway passes through Mississippi cypress swamps and farm fields, Appalachian foothills, and Tennessee oak and hickory forests.

Construction of a segment in North Carolina began in 1912 but ceased after the start of World War I (a short stretch of the present-day parkway follows that route near Linville Falls).

More parkways were built in the New York area, including the Merritt Parkway (1934 40), which continued the Westchester Parkway System across Connecticut as a toll road providing divided roadways and limited access.

The costs have soared since then, of course; today's estimate, expropriations included, is C$500m.Mr Gréber's 1950 masterplan for Ottawa included parkways, a green belt and relocation of the then city-centre railway station, but no grand boulevard.

They are supplemented by a system of parkways, U.S. highways, and state highways that make travel by automobile or truck relatively easy almost everywhere in the state.

Brooklyn is connected to Manhattan by three bridges (one of which is the Brooklyn Bridge), one vehicular tunnel, and several rapid-transit tubes; to Queens and Long Island by parkways; and to Staten Island by the 4,260-foot 4,260-foot 1,298-metre 1,298-metreidge.

In the 20th century, parkways were incorporated into the traffic patterns of all boroughs, as Eastern and Ocean parkways in Brooklyn, Riverside Drive Manhattann), the Grand Concourse (the Bronx), and Queens Boulevard attest.