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Scenic Taconic Parkway can be 'nasty road'

It was first proposed as an extension of the Bronx River Parkway back in 1922. So long ago, that planning committee member Franklin D. Roosevelt was merely a budding politician.

Designed as "a limited-access pleasure drive through a landscaped corridor," according to The Encyclopedia of New York State, the Taconic State Parkway was meant to be a scenic drive.

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