Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they’re everywhere) [ST05]

Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: Stroads are streets that are designed like roads and in doing so, fail at being good at either one. They are too sprawling and hostile to be good streets, and they are too busy and complicated to be good roads. Stroads are inefficient, unsafe, expensive, and ugly. This video introduces the concept of Stroads, and talks about why you will (almost) never find these kind of places in the Netherlands: because here all roads need to have a single purpose as either a motorway, connector road, or end-destination street. The name “stroad“ was invented by Strong Towns as a way to explain why road design in the US is fundamentally broken. To donate to Strong Towns, visit: Watch the rest of the Strong Towns series here: Sign up to Nebula and watch ad-free and sponsor-free: Patreon: Twitter: Reddit: One-time donations: NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel): --- More reading The Stroad The Stroad [2013] What is a Stroad? [2018] Example of a Stroad: --- References Thumbnail image from Strong Towns: City streets safer than suburban roads, study finds Do Denser Neighborhoods Have Safer Streets? Population Density and Traffic Safety in the Philadelphia Region Vital Signs: Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention — United States and 19 Comparison Countries U.S. car crash deaths increased in 2020 despite pandemic Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities for the First 9 Months (Jan–Sep) of 2020 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 60 Years of Urban Change Designing to Move People National Association of City Transportation Officials Principles of Sustainable Safety in the Netherlands Vision Zero UK More about the 3 types of street/road/highway in the Netherlands: --- Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:05 Introduction to Stroads 0:55 What is a road? 1:45 What is a street? 2:44 What is a stroad? 3:04 Stroads are bad streets 3:22 Stroads are hostile 4:19 Stroads are ugly 4:40 Stroads are bad roads 4:52 Stroads are inefficient 5:40 Stroads are unsafe 6:55 Stroads are expensive 8:57 How to fix our stroads 9:09 Turn a stroad into a road 9:40 Turn a stroad into a street 10:01 The Netherlands does it properly (as usual) 10:31 Stroomweg 11:09 Gebiedsontsluitingsweg 11:38 Erftoegangsweg 11:54 Streets in the Netherlands 12:40 Dutch street and road examples 13:42 A street becomes a road - Amsterdam 14:51 A street becomes a road - Amstelveen 16:45 Conclusion 17:53 Patreon shout-out 18:04 Outro