John Rowland wrote:
Nowadays I read Kafka as a utopian vision of how saner government
might work.

My aunt lives 600 metres from a tube station, and IME the street has
always been fully parked on both sides. The street has recently been
made residents parking only. There is now at most one car parked in
the whole street! It turns out that in a street of 40 houses, only
one person actually owns a car, so both sides of an entire street
have been reserved for a single car!

AIUI the intention of making roads "residents only" is to stop commuters
blocking the road for those needing access to the houses along that road.