Park Drive (parkway)

The Park Drive is a mostly one-to two-lane parkway in the district Fenway - Kenmore in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. The road was designed in the late 19th century by Frederick Law Olmsted as part of the Emerald Necklace system of parks and parkways, which extends from the Boston Common on Beacon Hill to Franklin Park in Roxbury. The Park Drive runs parallel to Fenway past the Back Bay Fens and connects this Commonwealth Avenue to the Riverway. Parts of the trail also runs along the Muddy River. The road is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston and is managed and maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Background

1875 in favor of the voters in Boston and the legislature in Massachusetts to set up a Park Commission to prepare and promote the establishment of public parks in the city. The landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who had already designed Central Park in New York City, spent from this point on much of his time in the area and was asked in the late 1870s by the Park Commission on the outcome of a competition with 23 proposals submitted to decide to design a new park. Olmsted held all competition entries for unsuitable because they are either not at all or on the contrary to strongly considered and therefore not sufficiently respected his opinion, the control of the tides in both cases aspects of a public park. The Muddy River and Stony Brook flowed through the Back Bay Fens, which were exposed at the time the tides, storm surges and wastewater.

The disappointed about the verdict Park Commission asked Olmsted then, join her as a professional consultant and landscape architect. Under his guidance, took the construct that is known as the Emerald Necklace today, on tangible forms. He decided that the windows dredged, leveled, planted and converted into an almost natural salt marsh should be to clean the flowing water. On this basis, Olmsted built a whole series of parks that stretched from the window near the Commonwealth Avenue to Franklin Park a few miles away. The individual parking areas were connected by scenic parkways with each other, including the Park Drive is one of the northern and western side of the Back Bay Fens.

Originally called the Street Audubon Road, as it branches off from the same roundabout Audubon Circle. The name was chosen in honor of the Audubon Society and the large collections of birds in the Back Bay Fens. The renaming in Park Drive was 1928-1938, than by structural changes in the Back Bay Fens, most of the artificial marsh was filled in favor of more parking area.

As part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston Park Drive by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR ) and not by the city of Boston is managed.

The section between Boylston Street and Brookline Avenue opened on January 3, 1892, the continuation to the Mountfort Street was opened in 1895.

Route

The Park Drive begins near the intersection of Boylston Street and Ipswich Street and carries two lanes south to the Peterborough Street. From there you can park on an additional track on both sides, which is separated from the north -flowing traffic through a tree-lined green stripes. The road continues in this way until the end of the Back Bay Fens, where the parking area is combined with the main road and also opens the Fenway. From there the trail continues towards Brookline Avenue.

After crossing the two lanes will be added to the Landmark Center at Audubon Circle. The two left lanes then turn left onto the Riverway and in the opposite direction to the Fenway, while the two right lanes continue straight ahead and run alongside two lanes of the opposite direction. After the junction with Beacon Street the Park Drive is only two lanes and leads as part of Massachusetts Route 2 to the Mountfort Street near the Massachusetts Turnpike on. From its inception on Boylston Street to Brookline Avenue Park Drive runs parallel to the Muddy River.

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