Pike Place has been dealing with cars since cars looked like this.
Driving a car on the cobblestones under the iconic Pike Place Market sign has been a Seattleite’s birthright for as long as cars have been in the city. But anybody who has actually engaged in this strange, inconvenient option is left immediately asking a single question: Why are we doing this?
This spring, the city itself finally asked this question and began testing a pilot program that restricted access to Western Avenue along the market to pedestrians. On Pike Place’s final day of vehicle free-for-all before the pilot launched, pedestrians, for all intents and purposes,
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