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Airhead
The only solution is more LTNs and incentivising a transition to mobility forms that mean less motor traffic.
If you try to 'create road space' for motorists, all you do is scare off the people who could cycle or use cargobikes etc, and they revert to driving. Further, Waze and Google Maps detect the 'empty' road space, and route increased volumes of motor traffic onto them.
We had this massive argument in the Netherlands in the 70s when communities closed the roads they lived on to people driving through them. That was the foundation of what the Netherlands has today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQk0O09gP4g