Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]

Name: Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]
Description: Not Just Bikes introduces the "stroad", a street-road hybrid common in the US and Canada that fails at both jobs. He contrasts it with Dutch design, where each road has a single purpose, and covers cost, danger and ugliness.

Not Just Bikes

Not Just Bikes introduces the "stroad", a street-road hybrid common in the US and Canada that fails at both jobs. He contrasts it with Dutch design, where each road has a single purpose, and covers cost, danger and ugliness.

HN links it constantly as the standard introduction to stroads and Strong Towns-style arguments about car-centric design.

20 Hacker News mentions · 2021–2025

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Transit, cities & urban planning
Civil engineering & construction

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