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an area on the city side of a landscape park, that people come to seek 

 these amusements and then enjoy the freedom of the landscape park, 

 who would not seek the park for itself alone, and that each recreation 

 makes the other more effective. It should go without saying, however, 

 that the landscape park serves a purpose which nothing else can serve, 

 and no argument in favor of the juxtaposition or incorporation of these 

 incongruous recreational facilities can justify their inflicting any con- 

 siderable injury on the landscape park.* 

 Access and The road and path system of the park should be related to the street 



Entrances system of the city to the extent that the main entrances to the park 



should communicate with the readiest ways of travel from the heart 

 of the town. Often those who use the paths in the park come to the 

 park by electric car, and the path entrances and circulation are arranged 

 for convenience in this regard. The main park road should enter the 

 park at the point most convenient of access from the town, commonly 

 where the parkway from the town reaches the park. A continuation of 

 the ordinary city streets into or through the park is undesirable, how- 

 ever, for the sake of the efficiency of the park. Any landscape park 

 which serves its primary purpose well will almost inevitably entail 

 some inconvenience to the ordinary street traffic In the neighborhood. 

 In fact the pleasure drives in a park may often be legitimately so de- 

 signed that they are intentionally inconvenient for through traffic, — 

 all through traffic, especially of course commercial traffic, being kept 

 to its own segregated crossing roads. 



The subordinate entrances to the park should be so arranged that 

 they throw their pleasure traffic conveniently into the general circula- 

 tory system of the park with the least possible construction of unin- 

 teresting road and at the same time the least possible opening up of 

 views between the park and the surrounding streets. In their relation 

 to the general outside street system each should serve its own district 

 and be so located that traffic can come to it by the most pleasant ways 

 available and without any undue circuitousness. 



If a park forms a part of a park system, the entrances should be so 

 arranged that pleasure traffic may visit one park and thence go to 



* Cf. the article by Robert Wheelwright, The Attacks on Central Park, in Land- 

 scape Architecture, Oct. 1910, v. i, p. 9-21. 



