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The Belt Parkway is the name given to a series of controlled-access parkways that form a belt-like circle around the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.The Belt Parkway comprises three of the four parkways in what is known as the Belt System: the Shore Parkway, the Southern Parkway (not to be confused with the Southern State Parkway), and the Laurelton Parkway.
The separate NY 878 begins at that split, but the route only carries eastbound one-way traffic until it reaches the junction with I-678 (Van Wyck Expressway). There it becomes a two-way freeway. NY 878 continues east past the JFK Expressway, and becomes an expressway at a traffic light at North Hangar Road. NY 878 ends soon after at Rockaway ...
Today, the state parkways are for the most part equivalent to expressways and freeways built in other parts of the country, except for a few oddities. First, because many of these roads were either designed before civil engineers had experience building roads for automobile use or widened in response to increasing traffic, many New York ...
TOMS RIVER - A portion of the Garden State Parkway has buckled, causing at least a 15-mile traffic jam in the southbound lanes from about Exit 98 to Exit 82A on Tuesday evening, according to the ...
As of 1:10 p.m., delays and pockets of heavy traffic volume are causing slowdowns on the northbound Garden State Parkway, from just north of Exit 82A in Toms River to just south of Exit 102 in ...
East Side drivers can expect hefty construction work on portions of U.S. 50 this year. Contractors for the Ohio Department of Transportation began working on a nearly $15 million multi-phase ...
The parkway runs east from Bushwick Avenue to Highland Park, where it curves around the north side of the Ridgewood Reservoir. Exit 1, Highland Boulevard, is a westbound exit and eastbound entrance. The parkway passes Mount Judah Cemetery before exit 2 at Vermont Place and Cypress Avenue, which lead to Highland Park and the Hungarian Cemetery.
To the east, the parkway connected with Weeksville and Carrville, two communities with a high population of black people. [83] News media in the 1890s described Eastern Parkway as leading "nowhere". [77] [81] The parkway was seldom used east of Bedford Avenue, [84] and the eastern end of the parkway transitioned abruptly into an unpaved road.