Just to clarify - does Forester consider 'anti-motoring' to be a good, bad, or neutral thing?

Yes, reducing car trips that can easily be done on foot or bike is, strictly speaking 'anti-motoring', but is it really a bad thing to try to achieve? It's one thing to force an unpopular choice on people, as I suspect John is defining it, but quite another to make the alternative to the car more attractive so that people choose it willingly.