Stroad

Not to be confused with Street Road.

A five-lane stroad on NY 78 in Amherst, New York, surrounded by auto-oriented commercial development with empty sidewalks

A stroad is a type of street–road hybrid.[1][2][3][4] Common in the United States and Canada, stroads are wide arterials (like a road) that often provide access to strip malls, drive-throughs, and other automobile-oriented businesses (like a street).[5] Stroads have been criticized by urban planners for their safety issues and inefficiencies. While streets serve as a destination and provide access to shops and residences at safe traffic speeds, and roads serve as a high-speed connection that can efficiently move traffic at high speed and volume, stroads are often expensive, inefficient, and dangerous.[6][7][8]

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  3. ^ Cunningham, Ron (July 23, 2021). "Stretch of Northwest Eighth Avenue severs two vital neighborhoods". Gainesville Sun. Retrieved September 16, 2021. ...A stroad being a car corridor that isn't smart enough to be a street nor efficient enough to be a road. ...
  4. ^ Nesmith, Bruce & Kaplan, Ben (June 9, 2021). "'Stroads,' hybrid of streets and roads, make Linn County less safe: Local governments should observe and redesign roads before implementing traffic cameras". The Gazette. Retrieved September 16, 2021. ...The worst-designed roads in America are our stroads, a term coined by engineer Charles Marohn of Strong Towns to denote trafficways that try to be both roads (moving traffic quickly from one destination to another) and streets (centers of productive human activity). ...
  5. ^ Bolotnikova, Marina (September 19, 2021). "America's car crash epidemic". Vox. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  6. ^ Slaughter 2021.
  7. ^ Tom Babin (March 3, 2022). "A bike exploration exposing why stroads are so bad in North American cities". Shifter. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  8. ^ Jason Slaughter (October 25, 2021). "Throwing Good Money After Bad Car Infrastructure - Wonderland Road". Not Just Bikes. Retrieved June 9, 2022.