sentences:  On May 4, 1957, it was announced the Central Westchester Parkway would be closed to traffic for two years, which would shut down the only bypass of White Plains for truck traffic, and if everything were to go correctly, the state would shut it down in a few days.However, the parkway was not shut down until June 3 as the parkway was prepared for absorption by the new highway.The part of the parkway not used for the new expressway though saw car traffic for a time in November 1958 as the county wanted to use the parkway to test fencing and barriers that were approved for the Hutchinson River Parkway.