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- noun Plural form of
greenway .
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Examples
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Behind the square he placed a village green, and leading away from it two so-called greenways, which snaked their way through the community to terminate in a large existing park.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Behind the square he placed a village green, and leading away from it two so-called greenways, which snaked their way through the community to terminate in a large existing park.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Behind the square he placed a village green, and leading away from it two so-called greenways, which snaked their way through the community to terminate in a large existing park.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Urban bicycle networks are changing quickly: the development of safe walking and cycling routes called "greenways" on the side streets of Portland; a growing commuter-trail network in Minneapolis; parts of streets becoming protected "cycle tracks" in New York City.
The Seattle Times 2011
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That's the idea behind "greenways" - networks of residential roads outfitted with speed bumps, landscaped curbs that make portions of a street narrower, or stop signs to give cyclists and pedestrians priority over cars.
The Seattle Times 2011
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But, for the most part, the people who will keep order on the greenways are the users themselves.
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Where once factories rolled out products for the global marketplace and businessmen plied their wares to a burgeoning and thriving populace, "greenways" now can be seen prospering.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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We should gauge their success by the number of employers the planners have brought to Southwest Virginia rather than by the number of "greenways" they have carved across our barren landscape and the amount of hard-earned cash they've squandered.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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We should gauge their success by the number of employers the planners have brought to Southwest Virginia rather than by the number of "greenways" they have carved across our barren landscape and the amount of hard-earned cash they've squandered.
From On High 2006
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The Roanoke Valley has thus far built nine "greenways" and worked its way down to 179th place out of 200.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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