On a local road near me, the (financially well off) residents along the street complained to the city about speeding, so they did targeted enforcement and while there’s always some speeders, the average driver on that road did indeed slow down to the posted limit.

Not good enough. The people there kept complaining that 25 in a 25 was dangerous and kept bitching to the city until they installed like 20 speed bumps in less than 1 mile of roadway. You can’t even get back to the posted speed limit now between bumps unless you’re constantly flooring it and slamming the brakes, so now the whole area is clogged with traffic going 8-12mph.

…now the residents are complaining about all the exhaust from the traffic and how they can’t find openings in traffic to cross the street except at the one traffic light and one stop sign along that stretch.

Basically they want to turn the road…a main throughway between three big neighborhoods…into their own private drive, and they’ll bitch constantly about not having that.

My office keeps claiming they want to maximize WFH while also enacting new policies to the contrary.

My favorite cherry on top is that the one top level exec spent the whole pandemic crowing about how she wanted everyone back in the office full time as soon as it was an option… then she takes a fucking sideways promotion that let her work fully remote for a position in a state over a thousand miles away without having to move, because it’s remote.