The filter gates are part of an environmental effort tied into the WEF's ESG concept, the same ESG concept BoA is responding to. These are not trivial little s

The filter gates are part of an environmental effort tied into the WEF's ESG concept, the same ESG concept BoA is responding to. These are not trivial little sidestreets that are being closed to cars. These are major routes and thoroughfares. Nor is this a tax or fine (encouraging the use of buses), this is a hard limit with license plate scanning as enforcement. People use their cars to be able to go places and do things. Restricting, meaningfully, the movement of cars is a restriction on freedom of movement. Trains and buses are great and we should encourage people to use them but we don't do that by locking people in with gates.