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"Have you ever walked or ridden a bike along a street, and thought to yourself,
“Gosh, it’s noisy”, or “This feels unpleasant”? Odds are you were on a stroad.
Maybe you’ve seen someone on social media talking about a “loud, polluted,
car-filled, congestion-blocked, unbearably hot, decaying concrete nightmare” of
a street. Yep, that’s definitely a stroad.
The term stroad – a portmanteau of street and road – is said to have been
coined over a decade ago by “recovering engineer” Charles Marohn to describe a
hybrid street and road.
Stroads are trying to be both a thoroughfare for vehicles, and a place for
people.
Typically they fail at both, with Marohn saying:
It is truly the worst of all possible approaches. Our neighborhoods are
filled with stroads."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
