This summer, for the first time, Seattle banned cars in the Pike Place Market :
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/
The cars there were always a joke. It was always some poor sucker of a tourist who didn’t know what it was and would take half an hour to go three blocks dodging all the tourists.
Yes, even if you could legally drive in Pike’s Place, for all intents and purposes, you might as well say that you couldn’t drive there before. Those politicians who said nobody would shop there were either lying through their teeth or completely uninformed.