In that picture, only the road looks empty, but it has houses around it, so there are people nearby, who would surely open door if you knock, they might or might not like you knocking their door but they would surely open it, fall, it must be cold, i would not want my children to go out and play, again it looks like the road in the picture has been highly engineered, traffic engineering looks sound from the yellow mark on the road, and correct visco elastic analysis has been done from looking at the uniform asphalt, that picture is very encouraging to me