West Roxbury Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston

West Roxbury Parkway is a roughly 3.3-mile connecting road running from Washington Street in Boston's West Roxbury section to Hammond Pond Parkway and Newton Street in Brookline. It includes East Border, West Border and Bellevue Hill roads, a 1920 concrete railroad bridge and rotaries built in the 1930s. Land takings began in 1894, and the road was built in four sections between 1919 and 1929 through a joint effort of the Metropolitan Parks Commission and the Boston Parks Commission. Boston built and maintained it, but it followed Metropolitan Park System design standards. The parkway was meant to link state reservations such as Stony Brook and the Blue Hills with city parks including the Arnold Arboretum, Franklin Park and Jamaica Pond. It retains its original layout, granite curbing and landscaped edges. It was recognized for its role in community planning, engineering, landscape architecture and transportation, as a well-preserved example of a connecting parkway.