Sound Transit and King County Metro rerouted many bus routes and added additional Link light rail service in anticipation of disruption to the city's transportation grid.^[12]

The march was routed on South Jackson Street through the Chinatown-International District neighborhood, causing major traffic disruptions. Some businesses in the neighborhood reported large losses in sales, taking place in the lead-up to the Lunar New Year (the largest shopping day of the year in the neighborhood). While restaurants reported good sales, grocery stores that rely on bulk purchases reported losses of up to 65 percent.^[13] Prior to the march, business leaders warned that the march would disrupt sales and wrote open letters in the International Examiner asking march participants to return to the neighborhood to offset losses.^[14]

Hundreds of participants came to Seattle in organized groups from Eastside cities including Sammamish and Kirkland by charter bus, the Kitsap Peninsula by Washington State Ferries, and other Washington locales.^{[15][16][17][18]}

Other Pacific Northwest marches edit

Other events in Twisp, Spokane, Yakima and Walla Walla in Eastern Washington and numerous cities in Western Washington, as well as Portland, Oregon drew additional thousands of marchers.^{[19][20][21][22][23]} The event at the state capitol in Olympia had 10,000 attendees.^[23] For days, regional knitting shops were sold out of pink yarn used to make pussy hats crafted and worn by the protestors.^[24]

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  State capitol in Olympia

The Seattle march was endorsed by Washington's senior United States senator, Patty Murray, who said she would be physically present at the D.C. event.^[25] The King County AFL–CIO chapter officially participated in the event.^[26] The mayor of Seattle, Ed Murray, marched.^[2]

• Official website
• Seattle Womxn Marching Forward