A ride through Pike Place Market March 2024. The recently pedestrianized block of Pike Street has stopped people from driving straight on Pike into the market, but it is still filled with cars because parking and driving through are allowed.

10000+ have emailed Seattle City Council so far.

Dear Seattle City Council,

I love Pike Place Market, but I don’t love the cars driving through the middle of it. They make me feel unsafe, uncomfortable, and unwelcome.

Please make the street a better experience for everyone — people walking, rolling, loading/unloading goods, and shopping, by restricting through-traffic and opening up opportunities such as more vendors, seating, art, music, or load zones. Markets around the world have figured out how to do this while maintaining vendor loading/unloading, and we can too.

If Pike Place Market made the street more welcoming and easier to shop at, I would be more likely to come and visit and spend money at the market.

Please support funding for improvements to Pike Place in the next transportation levy.

A no stress slow ride along the Sammamish River Trail between Woodinville and Redmond WA.

A ride along part of the Elliot Bay Trail, then over the John Coney Bridge, a ticky tack around Climate Pledge Arena, stare for a while at the International Fountain, and finally pass by (under) the Space Needle.

Music by ItsWatR from Pixabay

The bike facilities on Pine Street consist of a bike lane between street parking and traffic, crossed at intervals by several bus stops and turning into a sharrow at the freeway.

Since this was filmed, 2 stop signs have been added to Pine Street and 8th street (last turn) got updated above grade and concrete loaf protected bike lane barriers.

Music by ItsWatR from Pixabay

Volunteer Park Water Tower in Seattle, WA. Footage from Oct 2022. The public can climb the stairs to the top and look out the windows in all directions. The tower was constructed in 1906.

The South Ship Canal Trail was an abandoned railroad grade. Featuring the Fremont Drawbridge

This light rail station in Redmond, WA was originally scheduled to open in 2023 and connect to Seattle's Sound Transit network. Delays on the connecting segment across Interstate 90 have pushed the full opening of the connection to 2025.

A 1.7 mile segment of Seattle's Burke-Gilman Trail starting at the University of Washington light rail station and exiting at NE 50th Street. If you look close you might spot the trailside pub.

This is the largest of the residential bike rooms in a brand new mixed use building. Before it became a building with over 200 homes + retail, the land was a Rent-a-Car lot, a car wash, and a gas station.