Car free Sundays - just some questions

Hey, I just want to say I’m chill with the car free Sundays. Streets are closed in cities all over the world for events, markets, etc… - when I lived in Tokyo my favorite memories are from those days when the city closed down blocks of roads to traffic and merchants set up shop all over the place.  (Note to readers - $4 polo shirts that you buy on the street don’t hold up so well to washing, drying, and even just wearing for an entire day)  

I don’t even think of this as some kind of heavy handed decision by the city (because it seems like they are trying to create something fun), it just seemed like…well…a surprise.

And I think that some of the outcry you see is a response to the city’s somewhat preachy way of announcing new things - where it’s hard to tell the difference between when they’re really trying to do something fun, or if they’re just being patronizing. 

So, since I don’t live near any of these car free Sundays, and it’d be kind of weird to drive there, the only way this impacts me is that I’ve got a few questions. 

• None of the car free Sundays are in North Seattle? Could this be because the mayor doesn’t really know that there is a good chunk of Seattle that actually exists north of the UW, or is this because North Seattle might have fought this tooth and nail?
• With the cars gone, will Critical Mass show up to chase off the pedestrians?
• If the car free neighborhoods had known about this sooner, could have planned for some kind of cool block parties those days - and applied for Neighborhood Matching Funds to help pay for it?
• And what if it rains?

Hopefully notes are being taken here, so that if it works it can be extended out further next year (Maybe even shutting down I5? We could party on the ship canal express lanes!)