Indeed, streets are fundamentally for people, not machines. People walk by default. The biggest failure we suffer is the too-ready acceptance of the assumption that streets are somehow for cars. For driving, for parking. People become an afterthought. You can't even walk on pavements around here, they've been co-opted for parking on the narrow roads. So, of course, the grim corollary is that everyone who can drives. Apparently to stop the practice would 'inconvenience residents.'