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No, a stroad is more like trying to do supercomputing tasks on a Raspberry Pi. Except you also expect it to get ridiculous perf/watt despite running at it's hig
by kmeisthax 5y ago
No, a stroad is more like trying to do supercomputing tasks on a Raspberry Pi. Except you also expect it to get ridiculous perf/watt despite running at it's highest performance band all of the time. Oh, and you're also overclocking the Pi to the point that it explodes.
The point they're trying to make isn't "you should only have tiny side streets and massive highways, with nothing in between". It's "don't build roads that require you go from a driveway or parking lot straight into high speed six-lane traffic". Drivers need reserved space for speeding up and slowing down, something that stroads do not provide.
- jschwartzi 5y agoThe other point that’s being missed here is that pedestrians need a bunch of stuff that’s ignored: * to be able to walk from business to business in minutes or seconds * to feel safe walking across the street * to be able to have conversations with other people outside without having to yell over traffic. The stroad is also really bad at providing these needs because pedestrians are not considered at all in US roadway design.