The Glover-Archbold Parkway would appear as a portion of a 1939 proposal for the Fort Drive Parkway, linking the circle of city forts.During the 1950s, Glover-Archbold Park was viewed by roadplanners as the potentially most desirable route for the continuation of a U.S. Route 240 Freeway (I-70S) roughly along Wisconsin Avenue, to the south of Tenley Circle, as seen in a 1957 study; however with this idea precluded by the 1948 NPS agreement prohibiting a road allowing trucks. Hence, by 1959, this road was proposed as a Parkway prohibiting trucks, and connecting southward to a Three Sisters Bridge, with a separate freeway spur for the I-70S continuation (from a split just south of Tenley Circle) eastward paralleling Tilden Place, crossing Rock Creek Park, and slicing a new swath through hundreds of homes in Mt. Pleasant, known as the Cross-Park Freeway. Both the 1957 Glover-Archbold Freeway and the 1959 Glover-Archbold Parkway would be protested, before even the latter was enjoined by the U.S. District Court in January 1960, and disappear from formal regional planning by 1962.