Parkway (St. John's)

Columbus Drive runs in a general south-to-north direction from Pitts Memorial Drive to Thorburn Road. It passes Bowring Park, the Village Mall, the edge of the west end residential area, and the Avalon Mall. Also known as the Crosstown Arterial, Columbus Drive was constructed in order to improve traffic circulation in the city by linking Kenmount Road and Prince Philip Drive with Topsail Road and Pitts Memorial Drive. Built on land purchased by the city in 1970, the road was opened in December 1981.{{cite web|url=http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~melbaker/citycouncil.htm|title=A History of St. John's City Council|accessdate=2008-02-02}}

Prince Philip Drive, constructed in the late 1960s, runs in an east-west direction from Thorburn Road to Portugal Cove Road. Passing through Pippy Park, Prince Philip Drive provides access to several significant institutions: the Health Sciences Centre and Janeway Children's Hospital,{{cite web|url=http://www.janewayfoundation.nf.ca/|title=Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation|accessdate=2008-09-06}} the CBC's St. John's studios, the main Memorial University of Newfoundland campus,{{cite web|url=https://www.mun.ca/campus_map/index.php|title=Memorial University - Campus Maps|accessdate=2008-09-06}} the St. John's Arts and Culture Centre,{{cite web|url=http://stjohns.artsandculturecentre.ca/main.asp|title=St. John's Arts and Culture Centre|accessdate=2008-09-06 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080616184841/http://stjohns.artsandculturecentre.ca/main.asp |archivedate = 2008-06-16}}{{cite web|url=http://stjohns.artsandculturecentre.ca/contact.asp|title=St. John's Arts and Culture Centre - Contact Us|accessdate=2008-09-06 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080612074016/http://stjohns.artsandculturecentre.ca/contact.asp |archivedate = 2008-06-12}} the Confederation Building, and the College of the North Atlantic.{{cite web|url=http://www.cna.nl.ca/campus/ppd/|title=Prince Philip Drive Campus CNA|accessdate=2008-09-06}}

Macdonald Drive runs in an east-west direction from Portugal Cove Road to Logy Bay Road. Unlike Columbus Drive and Prince Philip Drive, Macdonald Drive is not a limited-access road and is intersected by several residential side streets.

In 2006, seven of the ten most dangerous intersections in the city of St. John's were located on the Parkway. In order of severity, these were:{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/where-are-the-most-dangerous-intersections-in-st-john-s-1.708531|title=Where are the most dangerous intersections in St. John's?|author=CBC|author-link=CBNT| work=CBC News | date=2008-02-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103085735/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/02/08/intersection-danger.html|archive-date=2012-11-03|url-status=live|access-date=2014-11-19 }}

• Allandale Road at Prince Philip Drive (ranking 3)
• Columbus Drive at Old Pennywell Road (ranking 4)
• Prince Philip Drive at Thorburn Road (ranking 5)
• Columbus Drive at Topsail Road (ranking 6)
• Columbus Drive at Mundy Pond Road (ranking 7)
• Prince Philip Drive-Macdonald Drive at Portugal Cove Road (ranking 9)
• Prince Philip Drive at Clinch-Westerland (ranking 10)

In 2013, five of the ten most dangerous intersections in the city of St. John's were located on the Parkway. In order of severity, these were:{{Cite report

| author = Royal Newfoundland Constabulary

| authorlink =Royal Newfoundland Constabulary

|year= 2014

| title = 2013 Annual Juristat Report

| url = http://www.rnc.gov.nl.ca/publications/pdf/2013_annual_report.pdf

| publisher = Government of Newfoundland and Labrador

| format =PDF

| page =55

| accessdate = 2014-11-19

}}

• Columbus Drive at Topsail Road (ranking 2)
• Allandale Road at Prince Philip Drive (ranking 5)
• Prince Philip Drive at Thorburn Road (ranking 6)
• Blackmarsh Road at Columbus Drive (ranking 8)
• Macdonald Drive at Torbay Road (ranking 9)

The following roads intersect with the Parkway. Macdonald Drive is also intersected by several residential side streets, which are not listed in the table.

• Royal eponyms in Canada—locales in Canada named for royalty akin to Prince Philip Drive within the Parkway

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Category:Streets in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador