[Brian_K_White]

Not-just-bikes has no problem with highways.

He has a bunch of videos pushing a term I think he made up called "stroads". Streets are fine (small slow local), roads are fine (big fast and not near people). Only "stroads" are bad, big and fast and yet directly touching driveways, and big cement parking lot deserts with a furniture store in the middle and you can't do anything but drive to or from.

I have no problem with his judgement of the shittiness of those things in either case, even if I'm not about to give up my garage and basement and workshop full of toys and tools and parts and materials to go live in some tiny appartment in a building with 20 other apartments and have to hire an uber every time my fart-powered electric bike isn't good enough.

I love my car(s) but this pattern of suburban development in north america is just objectively bad. It's like a sort of pathology where some legitimate initial need or pressure produced a response which has by now developed into some wildly disfigured monstrosity.

[kiba]

According to wikipedia, stroad was coined by a civil engineer.[1]

Also, while I can't currently find it via google, I am pretty sure that stroad had entered traffic engineers' lexicon somewhere in an engineering handbook.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Gwinnett/comments/1aqdlh4/city_of_m...

[mulmen]

Did you mean to post a reddit link? I searched the word “stroad” and didn’t find it on that page.

[kiba]

Was meant to be a link to wikipedia.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad