>>1968096 (me)Like, here's a freaky example of a right-of-way that is "stroad" on one side, and relatively well-built on the other side (because one side was a planned community with social housing, built much later than the other).
On the left, things are mostly good. The social housing has parking adjacent to the roadway, but absolutely none of that parking is accessible from the roadway. The driveways to access it are coming off the side streets. The northern-most intersection has an unsignalized left turn, which is not-great. I'd put in a median and force them to only make right turns, to mitigate that.
The right side is bad. The apartment buildings on the north end have curb cuts for their parking lots (even the one on a fucking corner, that also has direct access to a street instead!). And the plaza has it's own curb cut, that sees lots and lots of vehicles entering and exiting from both directions on the roadway. The plaza is especially egregious, because it could have those curb cuts on both side streets instead.
This stretch of roadway is a north-south arterial that needs to move high volumes of vehicles through this section of city. It's right before a bridge across a river, so it's literally a chokepoint. But it's also absolutely fucking hammered by traffic during rush hour (especially school rush hour; not in the pictures but there are major schools ALSO with curb cuts directly onto the arterial).
I hate suburbs too, but I will say this is one thing many suburbs got "right." While they are tangled fucking mazes inside the suburb, the maze has a restricted number of access points that are properly signalized intersections onto major roads. And those major roads are extremely well separated from the suburb (backyards with high fences and landscaping to keep out the road noise).
