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This road is killing America
Seemingly every town and city in North America has one of these roads. Four or six lanes across, the road is lined with everything from self storage units, to car dealerships, to drive thru fast food. There are traffic lights every five hundred feet and cars are constantly turning in and out of the road, with their drivers sometimes stuffing handfuls of fries into their mouths.
There’s usually sidewalks on these streets, but curiously no pedestrians. Everyone in town has to go down this road at least once a week because the local supermarket, surrounded by several acres of parking lots, is always on this street.
It’s a street, with local commercial destinations, but it’s also a road that is supposed to connect you at high speed to the next town. Sometimes an entire town’s commercial base on one of these street/roads. These motorways are called stroads because they try to be both a street and a road at the same time and fail miserably at both.
Generally, America (and other parts of the world) make two types of roads that are very safe: highways and streets.
