If the road has to close because of a traffic accident, that makes it less useful too - especially when it seems to happen almost every day. A road with less throughput that at least keeps moving can be better.

I'm a pedestrian. Many roads around me have been made more useful to you, to the point where they're useless to me. If they're all made useful, then I'll be the one who has to stay at home.

>They also make the road less useful

And that's the real goal here. This is just another avenue of attack for anti-car zealots.

You say "anti-car" like it's a bad thing.

I guess it depends on if you value freedom of movement or not.

But thanks for dropping by as an example.

I value freedom of movement - but not only through car accessibility. I value being able to walk / bike / take a bus safely and within a reasonable distance from my destination. The modern American suburb is terribly designed from this perspective.

This is not an uncommon opinion: https://likewise.am/2016/05/08/why-suburbia-sucks/