Please enjoy a new word for those non-places where you have a high-speed road that still has tons of turn-offs, businesses, and red lights like a street. It's a stroad, and it's just as bad for ...

West Street is now what planning experts call a “stroad” – a hybrid of a street and a road, which experts say isn’t safe for pedestrians or motorists. The last month has been a tragic time for the ...

One day while on our post-retirement world tour, my wife and I ended up in Roanoke Virginia. We spotted a restaurant that looked suitable about a block and half from the front lobby of our hotel and ...

A stroad being a car corridor that isn’t smart enough to be a street nor efficient enough to be a road. That’s the five-lane stretch of Northwest Eighth Avenue connecting Main Street with Northwest ...

Coined by urban planner Charles Marohn, the word “stroad” is an ugly word for an ugly phenomenon. Before understanding the stroad, we need to understand its unobjectionable components: the street and ...

I was driving into the city on Farmington Avenue a week ago, watching the SUV in front of me pass a snowplow on the right and then cut off a bus. And I wondered, as I often have, whether there was ...

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Ever heard of a ‘stroad’? It’s what planning experts say one major Toowoomba thoroughfare has transformed into, and the reason it is the location of so many shocking crashes. West Street is now what ...