When you first think about it, it seems a bit odd doesn't it? By simple word analogy it seems illogical you would drive where you park and park where you drive... But then again, you need to drive to get to where you are going to park, so there is the driving on the parkway, but the parking in the driveway?
If we go by definition a driveway is a private road that connects to the public street . These roads are usually short. We park our cars on them because after having driven the way to the private house, we would obviously have to stop when we arrived.
Now, parkways, the "park" in parkway is not the same word as "park" the meaning to stop. A parkway is defined as a broad road usually marked with scenery and a landscape. Landscaping? Scenery? Sounds a lot like a "park" as in the recreation space, doesn't it?. Thus we drive on parkways because it is a glorified parklike road.
So there you have it. That is why we park on driveways and drive on parkways.
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