@luminous00 There may be multiple MacDade Blvds but I’m thinking you may live in the Philadelphia area. No MacDade Blvd is not a great Boulevard- but the Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia fits exactly your description, with side lanes for local traffic (not really for bicycles and all but hazardous to pedestrians).
Seems that’s more of the original french concept of the Boulevard anyway-
From that same wikipedia article:
“In many places in the United States and Canada, municipalities and developers have adapted the term to refer to arterial roads, not necessarily boulevards in the traditional sense. In California, many so-called “boulevards” extend into the mountains as narrow, winding road segments only two lanes in width. However, boulevards can be any divided highway with at-grade intersections to local streets. ”
and later down:
“Nineteenth century parkways, such as Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway, were often built in the form of boulevards and are informally referred to as such. In some cities, however, the term “boulevard” does not specify a larger, wider, or more important road. “Boulevard” may simply be used as one of many words describing roads in communities containing multiple iterations of the same street name (such as in the Ranchlands district of Calgary, where Ranchlands Boulevard exists side-by-side with Ranchlands Road, Ranchlands Court, Ranchlands Mews, etc.) Nowaday boulevard can be fund most anywhere and their original structured meaning has lost all meaning.”
So yeah… it can be anything, I guess.