Cars or no cars Pike Place Market endures
Seattle Now
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4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
A car-free experiment at Pike Place Market is well underway.
Host of Cascade PBS's Mossback's Northwest, Knute Berger, talks about the market's move to be car-free, what it has meant to generations of Seattleites and how else it has changed over the years.
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| 0:35.7 | at Pike Place Market is well underway. We'll head down with |
| 0:39.2 | local historian Canute Berger to talk about what's changed and how the pilot fits in with the |
| 0:44.4 | market's many reinventions through the years. But first, let's get you caught up. |
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