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On the twin blights of the traffic-overrun main street and the traffic-clogged suburban strip, he reminds us that there should be only two types of throughfares: streets and roads. Streets are for local wealth generation and welcome traffic only at slow speed, because high speeds destroy the value of place. Roads are for moving vehicles quickly, and should be kept free of businesses, because every curb cut impacts speed and also threatens safety. Our mistake over the years is that we have allowed streets to become half roads and roads to become half streets. On one, commerce has been sacrificed to speed. On the other, speed has been sacrificed to commerce. Chuck calls these places “stroads.”
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