I've written about it before, but when we lived in West Ealing back in Tudor times (early 2000s), our street became a home zone, which was pretty much restricted through traffic, bollards and planters, and parking changes. It wasn't revolutionary but it felt like a step in the right direction in simply reprioritizing the street away from simply an avenue to channel traffic.
It's no surprise all the gripes from the vocal minority then are the same as today to the letter. They used to stick letters through the door at the dead-of-night warning that our neighbours weren't against it, why weren't we. Come on, we know who you are, you're the fat bloke across the street, it's not really intimidating. He'd hide when I went and shoved them back through the door. I think the main anti-campaign was just that bloke and a couple of hangers-on. I'm not sure what they got out it, it wasn't exactly radical change.