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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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More reading
The Stroad
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/10/30/the-stroad
The Stroad [2013]
• The STROAD
What is a Stroad? [2018]
• What is a STROAD?
Example of a Stroad:
• STROAD
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References
Thumbnail image from Strong Towns:
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/1/whats-a-stroa…
City streets safer than suburban roads, study finds
whyy.org/articles/study-city-driving-often-safer-t…
Do Denser Neighborhoods Have Safer Streets? Population Density and Traffic Safety in the Philadelphia Region
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0739456X19845…
Vital Signs: Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention — United States and 19 Comparison Countries
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6526e1.htm?s_cid=…
U.S. car crash deaths increased in 2020 despite pandemic
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-car-crash-deaths-inc…
Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities for the First 9 Months (Jan–Sep) of 2020
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublicatio…
60 Years of Urban Change
iqc.ou.edu/urbanchange
Designing to Move People
National Association of City Transportation Officials
nacto.org/publication/transit-street-design-guide/…
Principles of Sustainable Safety in the Netherlands
Vision Zero UK
visionzerouk.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/principles-o…
More about the 3 types of street/road/highway in the Netherlands:
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erftoegangsweg
www.wegenwiki.nl/Erftoegangsweg
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebiedsontsluitingsweg
www.wegenwiki.nl/Gebiedsontsluitingsweg
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroomweg
www.wegenwiki.nl/Stroomweg
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction to Stroads
0:41 What is a road?
1:31 What is a street?
2:30 What is a stroad?
2:50 Stroads are bad streets
3:08 Stroads are hostile
4:05 Stroads are ugly
4:26 Stroads are bad roads
4:38 Stroads are inefficient
5:26 Stroads are unsafe
6:41 Stroads are expensive
8:43 How to fix our stroads
8:55 Turn a stroad into a road
9:26 Turn a stroad into a street
9:47 The Netherlands does it properly (as usual)
10:17 Stroomweg
10:55 Gebiedsontsluitingsweg
11:24 Erftoegangsweg
11:40 Streets in the Netherlands
12:26 Dutch street and road examples
13:28 A street becomes a road - Amsterdam
14:37 A street becomes a road - Amstelveen
16:31 Conclusion
17:39 Patreon shout-out
17:50 Outro
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
This is the reason why most north american residents say "there's nothing to do in my city. My city is so boring."
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"Why don't kids these days go outside anymore?"
The outside they have created:
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It's very telling that I, an American that likes to think he's pro-public transit, started this video and thought "wait, there's a difference between streets and roads?"
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I was in Texas for work, and there was a steakhouse 5 minutes walk from my hotel. I didn't have a car, so decided to walk - then discovered it was on (what I now know as) a Stroad. Walking along some undulating, grassy embankment with no sidewalk and cars shooting past me at 50+ was pretty unnerving, especially after a beer on the way back. I felt like a hitchhiker. You're actively being dissuaded from walking which just seems utterly ridiculous.
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The bench is for the people to rest and recover from the shock of nearly getting run over.
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This video identified something I've hated my whole life and never had a name for. Wild
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About 15yrs ago, one of our local politicians said the quiet part out loud. He said that some areas near businesses were made intentionally inefficient, with short traffic lights and lots of them, in order to increase revenue from the area. Basically, since the whole town is a large grid work of "stroads," they wanted to discourage travel to other stores outside of their district and have drivers sit long enough to impulse buy fast food. Shady bastards.
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In my town we had a teen die a few years ago because the bus home from work only dropped off on the opposite side of a stroad like this that he needed to cross. It was evening and that road had no cross walks and he was hit. People were sad about it for a bit but then nothing was ever done to improve the situation.
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It’s like stroads are trying to make pedestrians feel ashamed of not having a car.
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"Cities in the US and Canada are covered in terrible non-places." Man, you nailed it. Every time I drive through an area like that (and they all look the same, don't they?) I just feel like I'm in the middle of nowhere, despite all the businesses around.
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I've felt for a long time that American cities are very anti-social. Stroads are one of the reasons that make American places feel so desolate, uninviting, remote.
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Between stroads, lack of public transit, and most US cities refusing to zone new developments as mixed-use commercial/residential, it's really no surprise our country has so little sense of community. When it takes 20-40 minutes to get literally anywhere in town, there's so much less incentive to shop with locally owned business, or to get to know the folks in your neighborhood, or even just to access whatever few parks/libraries/museums that are around. Our cities are designed to separate and isolate their residents, and I think that plays no small part in the mediocre mental wellness of our country.
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North American urban areas are incredibly hostile to foot traffic. Not long ago I had some car issues. I left my vehicle with the mechanic for a couple hours and went walking along one of these stroads to go find a place to eat. Not wanting to eat indoors because of the pandemic, I took my food to go. I wandered around the plaza, looking for a place to sit. There were endless parking lots, stores, and superstores everywhere. No benches. No picnic tables. Not even a patch of grass to sit on, except right next to the stroad where cars were flying by. I walked for 10 minutes and spotted nothing, until...salvation: an emergency exit staircase behind a Mark's Warehouse. I sat upon my uncomfortable, non-slip steel throne and ate my burger, staring at the pavement laneway on one side of me and a giant, blank stone wall on the other. My fries had gone cold.
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I was at a stroad today and needed to go to the bathroom. The pharmacy I was visiting didn’t have a bathroom for customers, but I noticed a supermarket across the street and decided to walk over. When I approached the stroad *I quickly realized there was no crosswalk in sight and there was no way I could safely cross 4-5 lanes of traffic*. So instead I got into my car and drove across the street and parked over there just to pee at the supermarket 😂.
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In other words, you have described 90% of the urbanized areas in the USA and the reason I barely ride my bike any longer. Basically every single street in South Florida is a Stroad. Freaking unbelieveable.
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I drive for a living in the US, and you nailed the Stroads. We (Truck drivers) hate them. Most of the New England States are Stroads, which causes our ability to move to drop by between 30 and 40%. Also, as a driver, making a decent living requires the ability to avoid Stroads whenever possible. This means that often it's more efficient to go many miles out of the way because the local roads will just suck time from you. NOTE: This is still not efficient, it's just the best choice of available options.
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I was always wondering, why US cities feel so "empty". It's just not inviting
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I spent 8 years in Tokyo where I could walk everywhere and public transit was amazing. At some point I felt like I missed driving a little because I hadn’t had a chance to drive for so long. I came back to the U.S. to drive our stroads everyday and remembered why I hated driving before and couldn’t believe I had forgotten why.
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Can not believe someone finally made a word for it. I have always thought to myself how I hated these areas with them being so ugly and all, and how I've had to grip the wheel with both hands because I feel so unsafe driving through them. I've told other people how much they suck but now I have a way to describe it.
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@NotJustBikes
3 years ago
Charles Marohn from Strong Towns has a new book about his experiences building stroads as a traffic engineer in the US, and why he became an advocate for eliminating them: www.confessions.engineer/ You can order the book, or get more information about it on the site linked above, or if you'd like to read more about stroads on the Strong Towns website, check out this link, or the links in the video description: www.strongtowns.org/journal/tag/STROADS And if you'd like to support this channel, sign up to Nebula and get access to my videos as well as over 150 other educational creators: go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes
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