It also blocks routes for emergency services, and a significant chunk of those 709k people would include sick people, elderly people, people even on their way to hospital themselves - all stuck in their cars, without easy access to food or water if it had lasted the days the protestor wanted it to. Even if the police had somehow managed to find a way to clear the traffic people could easily have been harmed.
This was not just some little traffic jam and a 5 min delay on the way home, it was a complete stoppage of traffic moving with a potential for people to have been stuck in their cars for hours to days due to gridlock.
However people may feel about cars or the environment, what they did was dangerous and could easily have killed people.
It also blocks routes for emergency services, and a significant chunk of those 709k people would include sick people, elderly people, people even on their way to hospital themselves - all stuck in their cars, without easy access to food or water if it had lasted the days the protestor wanted it to. Even if the police had somehow managed to find a way to clear the traffic people could easily have been harmed.
This was not just some little traffic jam and a 5 min delay on the way home, it was a complete stoppage of traffic moving with a potential for people to have been stuck in their cars for hours to days due to gridlock.
However people may feel about cars or the environment, what they did was dangerous and could easily have killed people.