A “stroad”—a term coined by Charles Marohn of Strong Towns—is a thoroughfare that combines the complexity of a street with the design speed of a road. Stroads include the most dangerous thoroughfares in America, and they don’t serve the functions of a street or a road very well.
There are thousands of stroad sections in the US and transforming a good number of them is important to to the goal of improving quality of life and mobility in cities and towns.
Here’s a list of seven places where stroads have been successfully converted to streets.