This is the Hall of Shame collection of the shameful, awful, ruinous STROADs of town center Greenville. What are STROADs? See this and this.

Each of these is an oversized, inappropriate, city-killing monster road in desperate need of being given the Greenville Main Street Road Diet medicine. What is a road diet? See this.

How do STROADs in town center Greenville harm the city?

As they stand today, they are car-only sewers where bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit users are utterly unwelcome. They therefore drastically reduce the per capita number of trips by bicycle, walking, and transit.

They destroy any hope of residences along them.

They create ear-splitting 24/7 noise pollution.

They are a Ponzi Scheme bankrupting city, state, and county governments because such downwardly-spiraling corridors fail to produce the tax revenue needed to pay for the services and harm they produce.

They induce a barbarically large number of deadly motor vehicle crashes each year.

They create ugly and massive linear scars featuring abandonment, crime, prostitution, drugs, and despair.

They destroy any hope of creating a sense of place (they are Anywhere USA non-places that no force on earth can stop from becoming strip commercial sprawl).

They chase away smaller and locally-owned retail shops.

They destroy the proximity needed for healthy levels of bicycling, walking, and transit because they disperse rather than agglomerate homes and shops and offices and culture.

They take away travel independence for those who cannot drive (such as seniors, children, and low-income).

And they degrade civic pride.

The awful collection of town center STROADs in Greenville -- each of which is in crying need of a diet – include the following and are shown on this map.

Augusta Ave

Peter Hollis Blvd

McDaniel Ave

Academy St

Stone Ave

Wade Hampton Blvd

Buncombe St

Rutherford St

Richardson St

Townes St

Poinsett Hwy

Pleasantburg Dr

Laurens Rd

Mills Ave

Church St

Butler Ave

Washington St

North St

College St

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