stroadとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Blend of street +‎ road. Coined by American engineer and author Charles Marohn in 2011.

発音

• IPA: /stɹəud/
• 韻: -əʊd

名詞

stroad (plural stroads)

1. (urban studies, derogatory, chiefly US and Canada) A combination of a street and a road that is too wide and fast to be friendly to pedestrians while having too many intersections and driveways to move cars efficiently.
   • 2014 January 7, Sarah Goodyear, “Defining the Worst Type of Street Design”, in CityLab, Bloomberg:

     While Marohn came up with the neologism partly in a spirit of fun, he considers stroads a deadly serious problem. Not only are they dangerous and aesthetically repugnant, he argues that they are economically destructive as well.

   • 2017 June 30, David Sachs, “DPW Moves Forward With Making Quebec Street a Wide, Dangerous Stroad Instead of Prioritizing People Over Cars”, in Streetsblog Denver:

     The federal government pitched in $11.5 million for this stroad, so it requires this step before construction begins.

   • 2019 January 27, Frank Krygowski, “AG: Lit Crit wanted”, in rec.bicycles.misc‎ (Usenet), message-ID :

     Roads I ride on: […] Very frequently, a four lane suburban stroad with 30,000 to 40,000 cars per day. 12 foot lanes. That's a tough one, because it's sort of sharable with a tiny car (Fiat 500, VW Beetle) if the driver is careful. But anyone else will be passing too close.

   • 2024, Jonathan Maskit, Bicycle‎, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

     A stroad has the driveways, intersections, and crosswalks (sometimes!) of a street, but the higher speed-limit of a road, perhaps 45 mph (70 kph) or more. Oh, and one more thing. The stroad has the multiple lanes of travel one might associate with an avenue (in Manhattan, say) or a limited access highway.

   • 2024 July 26, Elias Visontay, “‘Boulevard of broken dreams’: could Parramatta Road really become Sydney’s Champs-Élysées?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Whether or not it includes light rail, Graham appears to agree with the mayors that Parramatta Road’s future should involve turning it from a “stroad” – a confused mix between road and street design for cars with big shop fronts, common in the US – to a tree-lined boulevard that supports the Sydney growth plan for medium rise housing centred around public transport stations.

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• Dortas, dartos, dotars, tardos, Rostad, troads