The Ugly, Dangerous, and Inefficient Stroads found all over the US & Canada [ST05]

Stroads are streets that are designed like roads and in doing so, fail at being good at either one. They are too sprawling and hostile to be good streets, and they are too busy and complicated to be good roads. Stroads are inefficient, unsafe, expensive, and ugly.

This video introduces the concept of Stroads, and talks about why you will (almost) never find these kind of places in the Netherlands: because here all roads need to have a single purpose as either a motorway, connector road, or end-destination street.

The name "stroad" was invented by Strong Towns as a way to explain why road design in the US is fundamentally broken.

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Watch the rest of the Strong Towns series here:
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More reading

The Stroad
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/10/30/the-stroad

The Stroad [2013]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6jFnOnjzrk&t=110s

What is a Stroad? [2018]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ1HhLq-Huo

Example of a Stroad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK22JKFH5-8

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References

Thumbnail image from Strong Towns:
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/1/whats-a-stroad-and-why-does-it-matter

City streets safer than suburban roads, study finds
https://whyy.org/articles/study-city-driving-often-safer-than-the-burbs/

Do Denser Neighborhoods Have Safer Streets? Population Density and Traffic Safety in the Philadelphia Region
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0739456X19845043

Vital Signs: Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention — United States and 19 Comparison Countries
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6526e1.htm?s_cid=mm6526e1_w

U.S. car crash deaths increased in 2020 despite pandemic
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-car-crash-deaths-increased-in-2020-despite-pandemic/ar-BB1cJzOb

Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities for the First 9 Months (Jan–Sep) of 2020
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813053

60 Years of Urban Change
http://iqc.ou.edu/urbanchange

Designing to Move People
National Association of City Transportation Officials
https://nacto.org/publication/transit-street-design-guide/introduction/why/designing-move-people/

Principles of Sustainable Safety in the Netherlands
Vision Zero UK
https://visionzerouk.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/principles-of-sustainable-safety-in-the-netherlands/

More about the 3 types of street/road/highway in the Netherlands:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erftoegangsweg
https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Erftoegangsweg
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebiedsontsluitingsweg
https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Gebiedsontsluitingsweg
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroomweg
https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Stroomweg

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:05 Introduction to Stroads
0:55 What is a road?
1:45 What is a street?
2:44 What is a stroad?
3:04 Stroads are bad streets
3:22 Stroads are hostile
4:19 Stroads are ugly
4:40 Stroads are bad roads
4:52 Stroads are inefficient
5:40 Stroads are unsafe
6:55 Stroads are expensive
8:57 How to fix our stroads
9:09 Turn a stroad into a road
9:40 Turn a stroad into a street
10:01 The Netherlands does it properly (as usual)
10:31 Stroomweg
11:09 Gebiedsontsluitingsweg
11:38 Erftoegangsweg
11:54 Streets in the Netherlands
12:40 Dutch street and road examples
13:42 A street becomes a road - Amsterdam
14:51 A street becomes a road - Amstelveen
16:45 Conclusion
17:53 Patreon shout-out
18:04 Outro

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