This summer, for the first time, Seattle banned cars in the Pike Place Market :

https://www.knkx.org/transportation/2025-05-08/seattle-pike-place-market-tests-car-ban-pilot-downtown-overlook-walk-flowers-vendors

Last year (2024), some politicians said 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/

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Banning all non-delivery and non-emergency vehicles should have been done many years ago in the most visited attraction in the Pacific Northwest. But I'm glad to see Seattle as one of the leading US cities in urban planning.

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