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The Ugly, Dangerous, and Inefficient Stroads found all over the US & Canada [ST05] (2021x12)

Date de diffusion: Avr 22, 2021

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. To donate to Strong Towns, visit: https://www.strongtowns.org/membership Watch the rest of the Strong Towns series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Twitter: https://twitter.com/notjustbikes Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/notjustbikes One-time donations: https://bunq.me/notjustbikes NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw --- 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 --- 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/mmw