[Aloha]

Thank you for the informative post!

I'll actually defend the stroad, they work fine so long as you don't allow parking, and you limit the driveways to 2-3 per "block" - anything more than that and they cease to function as an street or a road. Often the stroad is just a section with a bunch of businesses on an otherwise well designed arterial road.

The pictures they post of supposed stroads look like normal arterials to me.

[adgjlsfhk1]

The problem with 3 driveways per block is you've just made a really low density set of stores. This means that you massively increase the average distance someone has to travel to get to the store they want. One of the main reasons to separate streets and roads is that it encourages tightly packed small shops which (especially when combined with mixed zoning) create low average travel distances. Lower travel distances mean fewer cars on the road (cause more stuff is in walking/biking distance) and therefore lower traffic.

[TulliusCicero]

> The pictures they post of supposed stroads look like normal arterials to me.

That's because in America, most arterials are stroads. We've gotten used to bad infrastructure.

And yeah it works on some level, sure. American businesses still manage to function, people still manage to do things. But there are a number of major downsides still.