"Scramble" is a funny term for that. I guess it kind of looks like the pedestrians are "scrambling" to an outsider but hopefully most of them know where they're going and aren't scrambling.
I think that author likes to make up words, like "Stroad".
I think that author likes to make up words, like "Stroad".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad
You can ignore new terms if you wish, but it is useful for describing a common street pattern in North America. The term is increasingly being used by urban planners.
The only people who use that word are insufferable choads who want me to give up my car and live in a tiny apartment because of their misguided belief that if everyone lived like they do in Manhattan global warming would end and the world would be a Utopia
"Stroad" is a shibboleth that tells me you're someone with an opinion that is not worthwhile
Street example[1]: a road in a city or town that has buildings that are usually close together along one or both sides
Road example[2]: a long, hard surface built for vehicles to travel along
A street in this case is a type of road. A stroad is another type of road (where buildings are not “close together”, f.ex.)
1: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/street
I regularly see 4+ year-olds sitting in a stroller playing phone games or just looking bored and disengaged, while the adult pushing the stroller otherwise completely ignores them, and it always makes me cringe.
One thing I've noticed, they don't walk very well while taking a nap. And you just get so much more out of a day when you don't have to return home in the middle.
There is a pretty big difference between using a stroller to help get a toddler (less than 5 years old) around and using it to pacify a 5 year old. In my experience, somewhere between 4 and 5 is when I expect them to be able to walk at a sufficient pace and distance to never need strollers.
I don’t get the sense from “scramble” that the pedestrians would not know where they are going. Scramble can mean a sudden act of motion, like “they scrambled the jets” or “once we have stopped we all scrambled off the coach”.
There is an alternative meaning where it is used to signify that something is intentionally mixed up or even encrypted, such as “scrambled egg” or “can’t intercept their plans anymore, they scrambled the signal”. Maybe that is the meaning you are thinking about?
Not Just Bikes popularized it (I think) https://youtu.be/ORzNZUeUHAM
It is a well accepted phrase too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble
There are many references since the 2010s, but i also found references to it in a 1955 traffic engineering book: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Sqh-alGvdoYC&q=%22pedest...