There was that one Waymo they set on fire in Chinatown but I was around for CNY[0] and the streets that weren’t explicitly walled off by barriers had drivers going down them too.
As an aside, what’s the problem with the extra traffic? Perhaps she has a lot of traffic but nginx can return a 404 with a tiny amount of CPU.
0: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2024-02-24/Chinese_New_...