innovative and widely copied American automobile highway built between Greenwich and Stratford, Conn., in the 1930s. The Merritt Parkway, a limited-access highway with two traffic lanes in each direction, was contemporary with the German autobahn system, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and other limited-access highways but was outstanding in realizing the importance of aesthetics, achieved through a combination of an almost continuously curving roadway and attractive wooded and landscaped right-of-way. The parkway's extension inside New York state is the Hutchinson River Parkway and, in Connecticut, the Wilbur Cross Parkway.
MERRITT PARKWAY
Meaning of MERRITT PARKWAY in English
Britannica English vocabulary. Английский словарь Британика. 2012