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
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 🍏🍌🥪🎁🛍️
How does that benefit the community? Unless you manage to cut off a significant chunk of their trade they’ll survive and have even more reason to oppose pedestrianisation. You’re not giving them a way out, or a chance to change their position, so they can only harden their opposition to it.
Let them experience the benefits of pedestrianisation and you’re likely to see their attitude change, and see them become a proponent of it instead.
Revenge is sometimes an enjoyable fantasy, but it rarely ever brings positive changes to people’s opinions.