There’s an awful lot of people in NYC who have no clue what a “freeway” even is. Funny how the names vary depending on geographic region.
We have “expressways” and “parkways,” mostly. There are rarely toll roads except the state Thruway or Turnpike; other tolls are usually for particular bridges or tunnels.
Visitors, from the West especially, often have no idea that a Parkway is almost always an old highway, built for pleasant motoring within a greenbelt of grass and trees, where trucks and other commercial vehicles are prohibited. Some of the old stone arch underpasses are under 10 feet high, and the traffic radio occasionally reports a jam due to some tractor-trailer having entered a parkway and being several feet too tall to pass. It take special crews and equipment to extricate them sometimes, just because backing through the traffic on those narrow, curvy 1920s-1930s roadways is pretty much impossible. Maddening, yet somehow entertaining …
There’s an awful lot of people in NYC who have no clue what a “freeway” even is. Funny how the names vary depending on geographic region.
We have “expressways” and “parkways,” mostly. There are rarely toll roads except the state Thruway or Turnpike; other tolls are usually for particular bridges or tunnels.
Visitors, from the West especially, often have no idea that a Parkway is almost always an old highway, built for pleasant motoring within a greenbelt of grass and trees, where trucks and other commercial vehicles are prohibited. Some of the old stone arch underpasses are under 10 feet high, and the traffic radio occasionally reports a jam due to some tractor-trailer having entered a parkway and being several feet too tall to pass. It take special crews and equipment to extricate them sometimes, just because backing through the traffic on those narrow, curvy 1920s-1930s roadways is pretty much impossible. Maddening, yet somehow entertaining …