In response to
"Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?! -- nm"
by
Ender
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I know I know: When people began buying cars they would take them out long the paths beside the rivers for weekend day trips, the NY legislators took
Posted by
zeitgeist
Sep 2 '10, 12:11
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the money to pay for roads OUT of the parks budget.
driveways are that because the paths used to walk on were called walkways and so that area you drove the car on to get to the barn or garage became the driveway
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