That is, if it's the one I'm thinking of, a road in the middle of nowhere. It's basically an oversized truck stop. So yeah, everything is going to be kind of crammed together to keep it as close to the highway as possible. It's the modern equivalent of an inn with a stable. It provides a place to rest and necessary services.
It's a word that one guy made up for his book about urban planning, and it just kinda spread.
Like a lot of non-technical but academia-adjacent terminology, it just got picked up by randos on the internet and lost all meaning.
It basically means "road I don't like."
Case in point, I've seen people try to claim Japan has no "stroads" and Tokyo is a car free utopia - in fact, I have "stroads" on every side of my office in Minato Ward. The entirety if rural Japan is "stroads."
Saw a pic the other day on fuckcars of, like, a 4-lane road going under a highway overpass with a crosswalk - and they were like, "uS rOaDs aRe hELL," I guess because they didn't like walking under a highway? And it's just like - that's literally just a normal day in Tokyo? That's walkable? Shut the fuck up and walk across the fucking street?
The word is completely meaningless, it's a shibboleth they use to signal you're "in the know." What do they know? Nothing, really, but they're very angry about it.
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u/StarChaser_Tyger AMERICAN 🏈 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 3d ago
What the catnip is a stroad?
That is, if it's the one I'm thinking of, a road in the middle of nowhere. It's basically an oversized truck stop. So yeah, everything is going to be kind of crammed together to keep it as close to the highway as possible. It's the modern equivalent of an inn with a stable. It provides a place to rest and necessary services.