Absolutely correct, they can regulate driving and traffic, which are commercial activities and terms.
However, travel upon public right of ways can not be regulated in any way, shape or form.
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Black's 4th edition: Driver. One employed in conducting or operating a coach, carriage, wagon or other vehicle with horses, mules, or other animals, or a bicycle, trycycle, or motor car, though not a street railroad car.
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Personal liberty largely consists of the Right of locomotion, to go where and when one pleases, only so far restrained as the Rights of others may make it necessary for the welfare of all other citizens. The Right of the Citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, by horsedrawn carriage, wagon, or automobile, is not a mere privilege which may be permitted or prohibited at will, but the common Right which he has under his Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Under this Constitutional guarantee one may, therefore, under normal conditions, travel at his inclination along the public highways or in public places, and while conducting himself in an orderly and decent manner, neither interfering with nor disturbing another's Rights, he will be protected, not only in his person, but in his safe conduct. [emphasis added] American Jurisprudence 1st. Constitutional Law, Sect.329, p 1135.
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Undoubtedly the right of locomotion, the right to remove from one place to another according to inclination, is an attribute of personal liberty, and the right, ordinarily, of free transit from or through the territory of any State is a right secured by the l4th Amendment and by other provisions of the Constitution. - Schactman v Dulles, 96 App D.C. 287, 293.
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The right of the citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city may prohibit or permit at will, but a common right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - Thompson v Smith, 154 SE 579.
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Liberty: Freedom from restraint and the power to follow one's own will to choose a course of conduct. Liberty, like freedom, has its inherent restraint to act without harm to others and within the accepted rules of conduct for the benefit of the general public.
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