Thanks for this; it's a valuable concept I couldn't have articulated before. It seems I see stroads everywhere, and they do suck for pedestrians, cyclists, shoppers, businesses, and humans, but there isn't an obvious way to get from here to the improved future. At a certain population density, land simply is less valuable, no matter the road organization. I can imagine a town trying (and enforcing!) the street concept in a couple-block area, but how effective can that area be when everyone drives to get there? I almost suspect we'd need regular bus service, but at low population densities how does that work?

Use automated vehicles to supply an on-demand middle tier of transit. That layer could possibly provide transportation bridging low-density regions to a higher capacity fixed public transit nodes.

The Stroad to street transition seems difficult to manage. The main street in my hometown underwent some of the transition, going from 2 lanes of parallel parking and 4 traffic lanes to diagonal parking with 2 traffic lanes and a turn lane, but the wide patch of asphalt is still there, and business isn't really thriving. I guess the general economic malaise there makes it hard to score development concepts on their own merits.

It's interesting to look for the accidental victims of development, stuff like houses backed up against a road that probably started as a street. In areas where there is lots of room, the sensible thing is probably to just tear them down (or relocate them if that made sense), but people are too busy looking at the immediate impacts and ignore the needlessly low quality housing that will exist for decades (your link points out that the housing also makes the road less effective, which I hadn't considered).

Large swathes of Houston are made out of stroads.