There's a route in my city that I've hated for years. It's bad to drive on. It's bad to ride a bike on. It's bad to walk on. But I never could really put my finger on why it was so loathsome until I read the new @strongtowns book Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Chuck Marohn. Now I know why: This route is a stroad. So I decided to go on a bicycle adventure all along the worst stroad in my city to really get to the heart of its awfulness.
Here's the book: [ Ссылка ]
0:00 Provisioning my adventure.
0:48 What the heck is a stroad?
1:53 The one-way stroad.
2:47 The vacant lots.
3:24 A visit to the cemetery.
5:14 Complexity versus efficiency.
6:57 Crossing a stroad.
8:14 Congestion and the tax burden of stroads.
10:02 The real tragedy of stroads: Collisions and injuries.
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• Crane Bicycle Bell (the ding is sublime): [ Ссылка ]
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• Vaude Cover II Rain Poncho (for higher-end, try Cleverhood or People’s Poncho): [ Ссылка ]
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