>This is also the same city that provides copious free and heavily subsidized parking while banning or severely limited 30-pound, highly efficient electric vehicles: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/electric-scooters....

When you say "scooter" images of traffic in Mumbai pop into the minds of the upscale folks who write the rules so of course they ban anything that has two wheels and doesn't cost too much for the blue collar crowd.