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Probably cars as a whole. Based on other such places (I know nothing about Seattle) they have no clue what cars are costing, but they know some people get there by car so they are scared to lose them.

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The parking spots at Pike Place dwarf in comparison to the crowds the market serves. Here's a maps screenshot[1] where I've highlighted the parking available there[2]. Meanwhile the market serves ~10m annual pre-pandemic visitors[3], which averages to 27k daily visitors. The amount of visitors coming in by car are negligible.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/HYrANj7.jpg [2] https://goo.gl/maps/aqoNGXTLCxgD5XdW7 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_Place_Market

There is also a whole parking garage downhill from the market. Much bigger than the parking available out front.

It would make a lot of sense to pedestrianize Pike Pl and maybe couple of surrounding streets.

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