Stroad

Street + Road. A wide and fast road that cut through the center of the city. This dangerous form of Urban design is very common in the US. See also Vox‘s The deadliest road in America.

Strong Towns‘s Charles Marohn coined the term.

Not Just Bikes‘s Strong towns series has great videos on stroads.

Alex Davis‘s video How to kill a stroad documents an actual example to fight against the stroad in South Philadelphia.