A Stroad is a street-road hybrid that frustrates everybody who uses
it. Roads efficiently connect clusters of destinations. Streets are
the spaces between those local destinations. Roads are fast, wide and
straight. Streets have intersections, crosswalks, parking, cyclists
and sidewalks. A Stroad is both a bad Road and bad Street: the worst
of both worlds, frustrating and harming drivers, cyclists,
pedestrians, businesses and homeowners. Stroads are commonly called
Arterials in North America. They are an anachronism, surviving only by
inertia from 1960s traffic engineering guidebooks. The multi-way
boulevard is the time-tested squaring of the stroad circle: a road
with a tree-separated narrow one way street either side. With great
Rights of Way come great possibilities. Start here: How to make
arterials better for non-cars (i.e. everyone) without losing car lanes
or parking. The difference between a street and a road, in
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