That is the whole point of being against stroads - they are rotten compromise between roads and streets.
I just tried implementing this on some random stroad and you can easily remove more than 2/3 access points without any investments.
No, you can't. Who's going to remove these access points? Like actual physical labor. Are you going to rent heavy equipment with your own money and remove them on a 5-mile stretch of a stroad?
What's so hard to understand?
"What's so hard to understand?"
They seem to be focused on aspects that are typically less important to the rest of society.
The most head-scratching example of this that I've seen was a guy saying that people should move to Chicago because it's underrated and has a decent transportation network.
Y-yeah. But that's not the only thing that people consider when they move and let's just say the city itself has a reputation.
In my corner of the world there's a lot of putting the cart before the horse in this regard - typically via closing streets for traffic without improving public transport.
Net effect is just more congestion because people have places to go regardless how much you reduce "induced demand".
At same time. I'm pretty sure sprawl would be better with more mixed zoning. Ofc, with buffers to oil refineries... If some idiots starts that argument.
An organization with a subtly culturally imperialist name ("the cities are all fine, but all small towns are all broken everywhere") is unlikely to have your best interests at heart even if its conclusions may have some validity.
The thing that this lobby group misses is that, ultimately, most smaller towns are in maintenance mode (we soft-banned most resource extraction and what is left only requires a tenth of the workforce) and that's true to a degree for smaller cities as well. This isn't something you can easily do with a major city because the infrastructure is more heavily used and won't as gracefully degrade, but you can keep rural roads serviceable for a long time with simple maintenance.
And this is why "stroads" exist in the first place- that's already the cost-optimized solution (take 2 lane road, expropriate some front yards/front parking, now you have a 4-lane road that can support through traffic and exiting traffic), and reworking them is not going to help a town that Strong Towns claims in the same article "are financially irresponsible and don't even have enough tax revenue to sustain maintenance".
Surely, if they don't have bread, perhaps they might consider cake?
Sigh. Because roads with turn lanes CAN NOT be converted into straight roads without forcing cars to take long detours through slow streets.
This will inevitably slow down the traffic, which is the goal of these propaganda outlets. They WANT traffic to become untenable. Just read their suggestions on "improving" roads with turn lanes.
So yes, this propaganda is good for the environment and the planet, good for communities and good for individuals.
You are asserting anecdotes ("it'll make driving slower for sure!"), compared to strong towns and https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes, who are professional planners and civil engineers.
They specifically address your exact points in their videos, stroads are bad for everybody, even cars.