Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?

United States
December 24, 2006 2:43pm CST
this is something I have always wondered. :)
2 responses
@missjackie (1358)
• Ypsilanti, Michigan
24 Dec 06
Yeah, those things are confusing. I don't why people have decided to name those things in particular.
24 Dec 06
Was I right is aparkway like a main road over here. You are beginning to be my teacher tonight.
24 Dec 06
We dont have parkways here in the UK is it like a main road? If so I see what you mean it really ught to be the otherway around,
• United States
16 Jan 07
A parkway is another name for a road. Sometimes instead of being named a street like Johnson Street, you can have a street named Johnson Parkway. Usually these are larger more widely used streets.