In the UK I often look at old residential streets where the houses are all older than 130 years or so. And I wonder why they made the roads so wide when carriages didn’t need three lanes of traffic to get by. Presumably normal people would not have parked carriages outside their houses? So why are the roads on small residential streets still wide enough to have cars parked either side, a route through the middle and two pavements on either side. This seems to me that it would feel empty and overly spacious in a time when most inhabitants would be walking around on foot.