What's a Parkway? Is it the same as our Limited Access freeways but with a Toll?
EB-Larry
Officially, a Parkway was a sneaky way for some states to get Federal Money to build major road ways back in the 30's and 40's. The Feds wanted to expand the State Park System so they offered up a lot of money for states to build Parks.
Someone figured out that the term park was not defined well so the stats saw this loop hole and jumped right through it.
They acquired Long and Narrow tracts of land between major cities and built a simple 4 lane road in the middle of it. Since it was a park, it had limited access, pretty stone overpasses and lots of green grass along the sides.
Commercial Vehicles, Recreational Vehicles (Including Motorcycles) and any vehicles used for business purposes were strictly prohibited.
There are not usually tolls along these routes, though some towns did get to put some in. Almost all are free access today and even though the parks commission released their authority on these roads long ago, the state had adopted all the Park Rules and Regs meaning no trucks, trailers, commercial vehicles or advertising of any type permitted.
Thing is that today, these are anything but Parkways and more like super highways.
As far as the last few comments, I am so happy that people out there actually know about the criss cross. Up until 2009, I held a Class A CDL and had learned an awful lot about securing cargo safely, securing trailers safely and handling heavy loads. I see so many people out there seriously jeopardizing everyone on the road. From Pick Up trucks running overweight 2 times their limit, to people loading up the backs of their cars at home depot so that the 70% of braking that is supposed to go to the front wheels is completely lost. Now I usually will tell a person that obviously does not know what they are doing, but contractors doing this know better and just choose to ignore it.
Kudos to the person who actually tested the chain length.