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Yep. Even in well-to-do areas it was so. Saw an episode of The Good Life recently, as middle-class as you could get, and their street is deserted.
Suburbia aside it really hits you when you go out to the sticks and ancient market towns like Alresford and Helmsley are wall-to-wall with motorised tin boxes that shove pedestrians onto a few inches of pavement in a main trading thoroughfare hundreds of feet wide and long. It’s ugly and tragic.
Ironic then that local councils go all out to maintain the vehicle access so it doesn’t go ‘out of town’ to shop and it’s that very access that f**s the whole shopping (and, perhaps more importantly, the browsing visitor experience) up.
Kernowdreamer
It’s gross. You look at photos from the 70s or earlier and there’s fuck all cars even in city centres. It looks a bit weird to our modern eyes.