If you live in Seattle, PLEASE go to Pike Place Market and buy Apples 🍏

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

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 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 🍏🍌🥪🎁🛍️