It is not very livable or safe when roads are narrow. I've lived on that kind of street. There was little margin for kids running out of control. In the blink

It is not very livable or safe when roads are narrow. I've lived on that kind of street. There was little margin for kids running out of control. In the blink of an eye, they'd be in the road. (actually happened on my street) Parked cars would constrict the road, and then the snowplows would pile snow against the cars. There was no safety margin for a car that starts to slide on ice. I was at least lucky that the street was short and didn't really go anywhere interesting. Had that not been the case, there would've been a very slow exhaust-emitting line of cars creeping down the middle. My lungs really don't need that.