The Insanity of Allowing Cars in Our Most Walkable Places

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Seattle's Pike Place Market has been a working public market for over a century, and continues to become more and more popular with locals and out-of-town visitors alike. But how is it that a place with such massive pedestrian demands still allows unfettered vehicular access?

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Previous CityNerd Videos Referenced:
North America's 10 Best Public Markets:    • Top 10 Public Markets/Mercados in Nor...  

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Resources:
"Market Wars" by Joyce Skaggs Brewster for the Seattle Weekly (1981), available at:
https://www.historylink.org/file/22664
https://www.historylink.org/file/1602
https://www.friendsofthemarket.net/wp...

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Images
Pike Plaza Urban Renewal flyer, Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 261_001
Proposed Market Development, Pike Plaza Redevelopment Project Architectural model, Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 33342
Pike Place Market, 1968, Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 191816
Lower Pike Street leading to lower Post Alley, 1972, Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 32530
Liberty Malt Store, 1968, Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 19186
Initiative One, 1971, Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 1802_B8_003_024
KOMO TV "Who Will Save the Market", 1971, Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 2101
AWV deconstruction By SounderBruce - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Disney Star Wars By Univaded Fox - https://www.flickr.com/photos/1314368..., CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Main Street USA By Alfred A. Si - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Space Mountain By Kaleeb18, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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