Transverse Roads
Even though Central Park was planned and executed before the development of the automobile, the architects of the park realized that there would be a need for commercial traffice between the both sides of the park, but did not want that traffic interrupting the bucolic experience of park patrons. One of the most innovative features of the original design of Central Park are the four subterranean Tranverse Roads that carry traffic across the park unimpeded between the East and West sides of the park. These Transverse Roads at 65th, 79th, 86th and 97th streets are dark, dirty and often crowded, carrying their filthy effluent largely unnoticed by park patrons only a few feet above them.
