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

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Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-the-ugly-dangerous-and-inefficient-stroads-found-all-over-the-us-canada-st05 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: https://www.strongtowns.org/membership Watch the rest of the Strong Towns series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa Sign up to Nebula and watch ad-free and sponsor-free: https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Twitter: https://twitter.com/notjustbikes Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/notjustbikes One-time donations: https://notjustbikes.com/donate NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw Thumbnail image by Edward Burtynsky (used with permission) Check out the whole gallery of "Oil" photos: https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/oil --- More reading The Stroad https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/10/30/the-stroad The Stroad [2013] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6jFnOnjzrk&t=110s What is a Stroad? [2018] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ1HhLq-Huo Example of a Stroad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK22JKFH5-8 --- References Thumbnail image from Strong Towns: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/1/whats-a-stroad-and-why-does-it-matter City streets safer than suburban roads, study finds https://whyy.org/articles/study-city-driving-often-safer-than-the-burbs/ Do Denser Neighborhoods Have Safer Streets? Population Density and Traffic Safety in the Philadelphia Region https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0739456X19845043 Vital Signs: Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention — United States and 19 Comparison Countries https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6526e1.htm?s_cid=mm6526e1_w U.S. car crash deaths increased in 2020 despite pandemic https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-car-crash-deaths-increased-in-2020-despite-pandemic/ar-BB1cJzOb Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities for the First 9 Months (Jan–Sep) of 2020 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813053 60 Years of Urban Change http://iqc.ou.edu/urbanchange Designing to Move People National Association of City Transportation Officials https://nacto.org/publication/transit-street-design-guide/introduction/why/designing-move-people/ Principles of Sustainable Safety in the Netherlands Vision Zero UK https://visionzerouk.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/principles-of-sustainable-safety-in-the-netherlands/ More about the 3 types of street/road/highway in the Netherlands: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erftoegangsweg https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Erftoegangsweg https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebiedsontsluitingsweg https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Gebiedsontsluitingsweg https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroomweg https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Stroomweg --- Chapters 0:00 Introduction to Stroads 0:41 What is a road? 1:31 What is a street? 2:30 What is a stroad? 2:50 Stroads are bad streets 3:08 Stroads are hostile 4:05 Stroads are ugly 4:26 Stroads are bad roads 4:38 Stroads are inefficient 5:26 Stroads are unsafe 6:41 Stroads are expensive 8:43 How to fix our stroads 8:55 Turn a stroad into a road 9:26 Turn a stroad into a street 9:47 The Netherlands does it properly (as usual) 10:17 Stroomweg 10:55 Gebiedsontsluitingsweg 11:24 Erftoegangsweg 11:40 Streets in the Netherlands 12:26 Dutch street and road examples 13:28 A street becomes a road - Amsterdam 14:37 A street becomes a road - Amstelveen 16:31 Conclusion 17:39 Patreon shout-out 17:50 Outro