The absolutely baffling thing is that that one particular stretch of road has been being shut down to car traffic for various events for like… decades.

Its very widely a social faux pas to drive on that street during busy market hours, becsause it has always been full of pedestrians without it even being blocked off, again, for decades.

They’ll regularly have overflow marker stalls, or just functionally limit it to market stall shopkeeps unloading or packing up their stuff.

The only people who would be against this like 1/8 of a mile of road that is nearly always swarming with people just finally being formally classed as ‘no cars’ are fucking idiots and/or obscenely privileged suburbanites who cannot understand the concept of walking.

There is literally a (or multiple) parking garage(s) under the Market. You can park in it, and emerge just literally in the Market.

https://www.pikeplacemarket.org/parking-directions/

Its just that it doesn’t work so well for modern, literally larger than a WW2 M4 Sherman tank, automobiles.

If you wanna zip around Seattle and actually be able to park, get a subcompact.

It can be done, I’ve done it, for a decade.

Your F-350 is shit outta luck though.