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or buy bananas 🍌

or buy sandwich πŸ₯ͺ

or buy seafood πŸŸπ“‡ΌπŸš

The important thing is that you just buy something.

For the first time, the City of Seattle banned cars in Pike Place Market this summer:

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 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 the experiment is considered a wild success, it will help fight back against pro-car politicians. But a failure will make future pedestrianization efforts harder.

So go out there and purchase something 🍏🍌πŸ₯ͺπŸŽπŸ›οΈ

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[–] AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 6 points 13 hours ago

Drivers are always the least productive people on the street. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that getting rid of them is good for the city.