Near me, yes the school run is busier than ever (well, it has been since September) - lots more walking and cycling than before, and also a lot more cars on the roads as people are not using public transport or sharing lifts like they used to.
However, beyond that, it is very quiet.
I needed to go to the main street to get something on my way back home and apart from a queue outside 2 coffee shops and the artisan bakery (also does really good coffee), it was extremely quiet.
The bookshop/newsagents I was in had 1 person for a newspaper, 1 for a magazine and I (magazine while I was in getting clipboards). The bookshop upstairs is closed to the public, but you can order a book to be collected downstairs.
No clothes or other shops open on the main street. And very very few people out and about, except those clearly going into an office, and construction workers on a site.
Public transport operating at 25% capacity, masks mandatory.
And everyone is wearing masks in shops, and mostly when out walking etc.
I don't know what it's like beyond our own area - but I know we are in lockdown for a good few weeks (were level 3 for about a month, and went up to level 5 a fortnight ago). And I know that it is working in our local area as case numbers have dropped from 290 per 100,000 population to just 110 per 100,000 population.
And it is slowly dropping elsewhere as well (mostly - some parts of the city we're on the outskirts of are not seeing reductions yet).