I think it's an solid albeit tacit frame: "broad" and "traffic" is the key terms here. You're either on the side of a street being most useful for the people directly connected to it (residents) or you're on the side of people far away who need to get somewhere else (commuters, et al). This is a case where "compromise" means both people don't get anything like what they want.

And what brought us here? Treating people as abstractions. Something we in the tech industry do all too much. Myself included.