Traffic engineers design suburban stroads to perfectly combine the high speeds of a highway with the complex hazards of a local street, maximizing danger for absolutely everyone involved.

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Traffic engineers design suburban stroads to perfectly combine the high speeds of a highway with the complex hazards of a local street, maximizing danger for absolutely everyone involved. These uniquely North American asphalt monstrosities feature multiple wide lanes encouraging drivers to hit fifty miles per hour, immediately followed by sudden driveways to fast-food restaurants and big box stores. They are too fast to be safe for pedestrians or cyclists, and too congested with turning vehicles to efficiently move traffic like a proper highway. It is a spectacular feat of urban planning failure, generating endless car crashes, miserable commutes, and an environment so aggressively ugly it physically hurts to look at. We paved over entire ecosystems just to build a purgatory where you have to risk your life to turn left into a strip mall parking lot!