parkwayn.
/ˈpɑːkweɪ/, U.S. /ˈpɑrkˌweɪ/ 1. Originally U.S. A broad arterial road planted with trees; an open landscaped highway or boulevard. Occasionally also: the planted area of such a highway.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > bordered by grass and trees
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1875 Amer. Cycl. XIII. 98/2 The most important improvement made of late in the general plan of cities has been the introduction or increase in number and breadth of parkways.
1898 19th Cent. Apr. 585 These park-ways are broad boulevards with margins of grass, wood, and river.
1938 Archit. Rev. 84 238/3 The city of Stockholm, which has had the foresight to buy up large tracts of land in its neighbourhood, has been able to plan a system of ‘Parkways’.
1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) i. 75 Two-channel highways divided by a parkway to reduce the menaces of bright lights and head-on collisions.
1977 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 11 Jan. 1/4 The route of their return to the Royal Yacht will be made by the Mandale Interchange and the new Parkway.
1998 B. Bryson Walk in Woods xii. 176 It is no accident that the first highways in America were called parkways. That's what they were envisioned to be—parks you could drive through.
2. British. A railway station situated on the outskirts of a city, with extensive parking facilities for the use of commuters. Usually in the names of such stations, or in parkway station.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > other types
stopping station1840
way station1840
flag-station1852
by-station1864
transfer station1869
junction1876
stationette1891
station house1891
halt1910
stub station1916
ghost station1928
whistle-stop1934
parkway1972
1972 Times 10 Mar. 3/6 There will be 70 trains a day between Paddington, Bristol Temple Meads, and Bristol Parkway, a new car-served inter-city station on the northern outskirts of the city.
1976 P. R. White Planning for Public Transport viii. 155 The ‘parkway’ stations opened by British Rail in recent years, notably that at Bristol, offer undoubted evidence of cars being abandoned by their users in favour of a rail journey.
1989 Oxf. Times 7 July 19/6 What we need is a Parkway station with full-length platforms to accommodate InterCity trains and a large car park.
2000 Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 4/7 This extension would include a motorway ‘parkway’ station near Junction 8 on the M40 to allow London-bound drivers to park and switch to the train.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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