Editing Parkway (section)

===Scenic roads===
The first parkways in the [[United States]] were developed during the late 19th century by landscape architects [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] and Calvert Vaux as roads that separated pedestrians, bicyclists, equestrians, and [[horse carriage]]s, such as [[Eastern Parkway]], which is credited as the world's first parkway,<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/historical-signs/listings?id=196 |title = Eastern Parkway Highlights : NYC Parks }}</ref> and [[Ocean Parkway (Brooklyn)|Ocean Parkway]] in the [[New York City]] [[borough (New York City)|borough]] of [[Brooklyn]]. The term "parkway" to define this type of road was coined by [[Calvert Vaux]] and Frederick Law Olmsted in their proposal to link city and suburban parks with "pleasure roads".[[File:Parkway Congestion 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Heavy traffic on the [[Garden State Parkway]] in [[Monmouth County, New Jersey|Monmouth County]], [[New Jersey]], in the [[New York Metropolitan Area]], [[United States]]. This is one of the world's busiest roadways.]]In [[Buffalo, New York]], Olmsted and Vaux used parkways with landscaped medians and setbacks to create the first interconnected park and parkway system in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wned/frederick-law-olmsted/learn-more/olmsteds-buffalo-park-system-and-its-stewards/|title=Olmsted's Buffalo Park System and Its Stewards {{!}} Frederick Law Olmsted {{!}} PBS|website=Olmsted's Buffalo Park System and Its Stewards {{!}} Frederick Law Olmsted {{!}} PBS|access-date=July 10, 2019}}</ref> [[Delaware Park-Front Park System|Bidwell]] Parkway and Chapin Parkway are 200 foot wide city streets with only one lane for cars in each direction and broad landscaped medians that provide a pleasant, shaded route to the park and serve as mini-parks within the neighborhood.<ref>{{Cite web |url = https://www.bfloparks.org/parks/parkways/ |title = Your Parkways: Caring for 850 acres of Buffalo's Olmsted Park System |website = Buffalo Olmsted Parks |language = en-US |access-date = July 10, 2019 }}</ref> The [[Rhode Island Metropolitan Park Commission]] developed several parkways in the Providence area.<ref>Including Veterans Memorial Parkway in [[East Providence, Rhode Island|East Providence]], and the Narragansett Parkway in [[Warwick, Rhode Island|Warwick]].[https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ristateparks-commission/rhode-island-state-parks-commission/]</ref>

Other parkways, such as Park Presidio Boulevard in [[San Francisco, California]],<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Alexander |first1 = Jeanne |title = History of Park Presidio Boulevard |url = http://ppnsf.org/history |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121003130754/http://ppnsf.org/history |url-status = dead |archive-date = October 3, 2012 }}</ref> were designed to serve larger volumes of traffic. 

During the early 20th century, the meaning of the word was expanded to include [[limited-access road|limited-access highway]]s designed for recreational driving of automobiles, with [[landscape|landscaping]]. These parkways originally provided [[scenic route]]s without very slow or [[commercial vehicle]]s, at [[Level crossing|grade intersections]], or pedestrian traffic. Examples are the [[Merritt Parkway]] in Connecticut and the [[Vanderbilt Motor Parkway]] in New York. But their success led to more development, expanding a city's boundaries, eventually limiting the parkway's recreational driving use. The [[Arroyo Seco Parkway]] between [[Downtown Los Angeles]] and [[Pasadena, California]], is an example of lost [[pastoral]] aesthetics. It and others have become major commuting routes, while retaining the name "parkway".