Seattle Nightlife

[The Topic Starter]

Lots of talk about improving Seattle's nightlife lately.  Does anyone have thoughts on Mayor McGinn's Seattle Nightlife Initiative?  I'm particularly interested in how this has worked in other cities.  On the surface, I like the idea.  When you're out late at night and everything is over at 2am, you get a flood of people into the streets and it's not good.  Those people are all hammered too, because they know it's last call and they're trying to get as many drinks in as possible before everything shuts down.  You solve both of those problems with staggered liquor cut-off times (hell, should they just get rid of cut-offs altogether like Vegas?).

Now I'm hearing plans about a council member proposing blocking off streets in the Pike/Pine corridor to traffic and making it pedestrian only on weekend nights.  Could it get ugly?  Yes.  It could work too - supposedly this would be modeled after 6th Street in Austin, TX.

Here's a link to the article about Pike/Pine:
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2010/07/15/council-member-clark-floating-idea-for-year-round-pike-pine-block-party?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Capitolhillseattle+%28CHS+Capitol+Hill+Seattle%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Link to McGinn's plan:
http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/newsdetail.asp?ID=10908&dept=48