It’s not exactly the lack of enforcement that I found to be the main cause of chaos: rather the sheer number of cars operating only by gps (gps that thinks the lanes actually make sense) when actually most turn lanes are de facto parking spots for delivery trucks and Ubers, and every other street is one way, super narrow, or literally changes constantly between blocks or times of day.

The result is that a driver cannot expect to safely navigate the city using traffic directions alone; and instead has to adhere to a mad-maxian set of ad-hoc rules that have been formulated to keep you from running smack into a (sometimes official or diplomatic) car “parked” in a turn lane. It’s dangerous to walk here, yeah, it’s also dangerous to bike and still dangerous to drive.

Seems like this city was designed to keep most of its poor residents as out-of-sight and out-of-luck as possible, so no mass infrastructure for people to travel by car was ever really implemented. This would seem like a good thing for pedestrians, except that when the city finally did start gentrifying and putting money into massive urban growth, they’ve done nothing to make the city driveable for the actual cars that belong to the people that inevitably show up to live and work here.

Edit: to be clear, I walk everyday in this neighborhood to work. I would love to suggest everyone do the same, but as OP clearly laid out, walking is risky. So we have kind of a chicken and egg problem rn.