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).
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).