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Dark_Larva t1_j6htkml wrote

Reply to comment by CalligrapherDizzy201 in House Bill to improve road safety. Testimony starts at 9am Monday, January 30th by rubyslippers3x

Would you prefer people call them roads that service many business and tend to have a high level of foot traffic but are simultaneously used for higher speed travel passing through instead?

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CalligrapherDizzy201 t1_j6hurz8 wrote

Roads is sufficient. Or streets. If you want to continue using a dumb non word, have at it. Nobody is stopping you.

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BobbyRobertson t1_j6hzffk wrote

It comes from the concept that a road and a street are actually two different things. A road connects two places and allows high speed traffic, a street is a place businesses and homes are. You want people to drive slowly on a street because people are walking and biking around between homes and businesses

When a street also becomes a place that people drive fast on, it becomes hostile to pedestrian and cyclist traffic but its density also stops it from effectively carrying all the traffic that wants to drive through it like it's a road. It sucks at being both a road and a street. So it's now a stroad. All words are made up and sometimes we need new ones. It's a perfectly cromulent word

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CalligrapherDizzy201 t1_j6i02p4 wrote

Nice Simpsons reference. As for the rest I get it, I don’t have to like it and I don’t. The stroads you refer to are streets that people drive like crap on. Imo no need for a different word.

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BobbyRobertson t1_j6i4h8y wrote

They are, but that usually comes down to their design. If you've got a wide street with no curves and stoplights every couple thousand feet, but it's completely lined with businesses and apartments, then tossing down a 25mph sign isn't going to get people to drive 25mph. The street needs to be designed so that people don't feel safe driving 40mph on it.

Narrowing a street is usually the easiest way to do it. If you're worried you don't have enough room to get around that car parked on the side of the street, you're going to slow down.

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Dark_Larva t1_j6i4sdw wrote

Edit: I thought the poster I replied to may have been trolling, instead I missed a reply of theirs. They don't like the term, but I included a link previously explaining what a Stroad is. I apologize for insinuating you may have been trolling, I should do better reading replies before jumping to this conclusion.

Here is more information on the topic: Wikipedia

It was coined in 2011 by a Civil Engineer, so if the Simpsons borrowed it they certainly did from a very intelligent individual.

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CalligrapherDizzy201 t1_j6i8gnb wrote

Trolling because I said I understand what you are talking about? Or because I don’t like it? Or because of the Simpsons reference you didn’t even know you used?

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Dark_Larva t1_j6i8skv wrote

I missed a reply of yours so I apologize for insinuating you were trolling, you don't have to use the term. It's fine.

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BobbyRobertson t1_j6i5b6b wrote

Nah he's talking about cromulent, it's a made-up word from the Simpsons used to show how weird their town is/poke fun at regional vocab. Saying something is 'perfectly cromulent' is acknowledging it's recently made up, but that it's useful

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Dark_Larva t1_j6i5i8g wrote

I haven't watched the Simpsons in a bit, but I think I remember cromulent. Thanks, gave me a chuckle 😂

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Dark_Larva t1_j6hv5mt wrote

You're right, no one is. It's actually a portmanteau, but you can absolutely avoid using it. Many of us will continue using it as it describes a particular type of street. Roads are also not always considered streets as well.

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