09-14-2018, 09:24 AM
(09-13-2018, 04:05 PM)jeffster Wrote:(08-29-2018, 05:23 PM)Spokes Wrote: A study to look at potentially banning fast food drive Thrus. Interesting. Thoughts?
https://globalnews.ca/news/4403821/drive...9-67144157
Nope. Doesn't work for a lot of people. 1. For busy establishments like McDonald's or Tim Hortons, there might not be enough parking to accommodate their customer base. Drive thru's reduce need for property space. 2. Doesn't work for young families; parents carting kids around, wanting a McHappy meal, will have a hard time if they're just looking for food, dragging out 2 year old and a 1 year old is anything but fun.
Of course, though, if the idea is to get people off of junk food and overpriced coffee, I'd be all for it.
People get concerned about lack of parking but it's often not a thing in reality. Parking requirements are kind of set through inertia (and sometimes for once-a-year peak demand) and there are very few places that don't have enough parking. Not 0, but very few.
Most places already have more parking requirement than floor space requirement, and that's consistent with my image of fast-food restaurants around here:
https://graphingparking.com/2013/02/06/p...staurants/
In 2016, Ottawa proposed 20 parking spots for a 400 m^2 restaurant, and another 5 for each 100 m^2 thereafter, a reduction from far higher previous requirements (which were probably too high).
There are places in the world where people can't conveniently drive their cars everywhere. These places don't have drive thrus. Why don't we strive to be like those places?