This place is called Pike Place Market, Seattle. Last year, some people claimed no one will shop here anymore if it's pedestrianized.

There's a street in my city with many major shops. Big clothing chains and such. A couple of years ago it was suggested to make it a pedestrian zone and the ones crying the loudest were the shop owners. Noone will buy anything if they can't stop their car directly in front of the shop! And all the old people with multiple hip surgeries, who CAN'T come if the taxi can't let them out right in front of the shop and who are the main customer base!!!

Well, anyway, it's been a pedestrian zone for two years now and I've never seen so many people in the shops before. You can't find a place to sit in the restaurants and cafés now on saturdays when before they were half full at best. Funnily enough after all the headlines and screaming on facebook about how the pedestrian zone will KILL all business, it's become pretty quiet. You won't read news headlines about the success of the pedestrian zone.