Editing Parkway (section)

===Early high speed roads===
{{See also|Parkways in New York State}}
In New York City, construction on the [[Long Island Motor Parkway]] (Vanderbilt Parkway) began in 1906 and planning for the [[Bronx River Parkway]] in 1907. In the 1920s, the [[New York City Metropolitan Area]]'s parkway system grew under the direction of [[Robert Moses]], the president of the New York State Council of Parks and [[Long Island State Park Commission]], who used parkways to provide access to newly created state parks, especially for city dwellers. As Commissioner of New York City Parks under Mayor LaGuardia, he extended the parkways to the heart of the city, creating and linking its parks to the greater metropolitan systems.

Most of the New York metropolitan parkways were designed by Gilmore Clark. The famed "Gateway to New England" [[Merritt Parkway]] in [[Connecticut]] was designed in the 1930s as a pleasurable alternative for affluent locals to the congested Boston Post Road, running through forest with each bridge designed uniquely to enhance the scenery. Another example is the [[Sprain Brook Parkway]] from lower-[[Westchester County|Westchester]] to connect to the [[Taconic State Parkway]] to [[Chatham, New York]]. [[Landscape architect]] [[George Kessler]] designed extensive parkway systems for [[Kansas City, Missouri#Parks and boulevards|Kansas City, Missouri]]; [[Memphis Park and Parkway System|Memphis, Tennessee]]; [[Indianapolis Park and Boulevard System|Indianapolis]]; and other cities at the beginning of the 20th century.

[[File:Natchez-Trace-Parkway-Highsmith.jpeg|thumb|right|The [[Natchez Trace Parkway]]]]