> But is this inefficiency and resultant drag on prosperity balanced out by making the market more efficient to access for people up and down the road? Nobody'

> But is this inefficiency and resultant drag on prosperity balanced out by making the market more efficient to access for people up and down the road? Nobody's saying we shouldn't have fast roads that are good for cars, just that they shouldn't be the same thing as where people go to shop. Stroads are the compromise of essentially putting businesses along the freeway. > If he had to cross the tracks to get to the market you could basically come up with the same list of gripes. No, this is incorrect. There was actually a housing development I was interested in in Munich with exactly the setup you're talking about: the apartment buildings were on one side of the tracks and directly adjacent to said tracks and the train station, with two grocery stores on the other side. I would go there with my son occasionally to shop, and he and I would both easily cross under said tracks, because there was an underpass, and it's MUCH easier and cheaper to build a ped/bike underpass for two lanes of tracks than a 6+ car lane road. Here it is on Google Maps if you're interested: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Siemenswerke/@48.0927833,11.5320116,158m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x479dded497c7faa7:0xfc5730c15d07a49a!8m2!3d48.0949357!4d11.533119!5m1!1e3?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/place/Siemenswerke/@48.0927833,1...