or buy bananas 🍌
or buy a sandwich 🥪
or buy seafood 🐟𓇼🐚
Just buy something.
This summer, for the first time, the City of Seattle banned cars in Pike Place Market
Last year (2024), some politicians warned no one will shop here anymore if it’s pedestrianized:
https://publicola.com/2024/04/02/dont-open-pike-place-to-pedestrians-council-member-urges/
It’s important Pike Place pedestrianization succeeds.
The stakes are high for the future of Seattle. If this summer experiment is a success, it will help push back against pro-car politicians. Failure will make future pedestrianization efforts much harder.
So go out there and purchase something 🍏🍌🥪🎁🛍️
WTF, how did this place look like in the past? Was it really a drive-through farmers market? Sorry if I sound stupid here, but that’s totally unimaginable for me as a non-USian. I’ve never seen a market that’s not pedestrianised in my life.
You guys would also drive your cars through the shelves of Walmart if you could, wouldn’t you?!
Wow, I’ve never seen the market that empty. Not when it’s open, anyway.
I’m assuming COVID had something to do with it. Those photos are 3 and 4 years ago, and people are wearing masks.
Ah, that would do it.
its not really a drive through market, but there are two sections of the market which are divided by a short street about 180 meters in length. you would still have to get out of your car to shop at any of the shops/stalls. anybody driving their cars there previously would have to contend with a ton of pedestrian traffic, and there is minimal parking there anyway so i dont know why anyone non-service or vendor related would willingly use that street to access the market.
Mostly only tourists and suburbanites who followed bad advice from Google maps would actually attempt to drive through it. There’s so many pedestrians around that you would end up spending ten minutes to drive a single block if you tried.
I used to work a block from there and was always shocked that people would just drive right through. There’s nothing at all to see in a car. Unless you are delivering something, there’s no reason for a vehicle to be there.