Denialism | Restaurant industry commends St. John’s City Council on drive-through decision

Restaurant industry commends St. John’s City Council on drive-through decision
    ST. JOHN’S, Jan. 20 /CNW/ – The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices
Association (CRFA) commends City Council in St. John’s, Newfoundland for
taking a co-operative, consultative approach on solving traffic problems and
rescinding its ban on drive throughs.
    City Council lifted the two-week-old moratorium on drive-through outlets
on [...]

Drive-thrus and their impact | SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER

Drive-thrus and their impact
Posted By MATT HIGGS, SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER
Posted 1 day ago
Almost every town, city and village, have them– drive-thrus. Daily, people line up with their idling vehicles to order a bag of greasy food or a cup of empty calories. Depending on the time of [...]

Drive-thru ban on menu | City eyes cracking down on smog from idling cars

Drive-thru ban on menu
City eyes cracking down on smog from idling cars
Brooke Larsen, Burnaby Now; with files from the North Shore News
Published: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Burnaby councillors say they will look at a city-wide ban of new drive-thrus.
The ban would cut down on smog created by cars idling in fast-food [...]

Drive Thru Issue Gone Nation Wide; O’Keefe

Drive Thru Issue Gone Nation Wide; O’Keefe
January 9, 2009
St. John’s Mayor Dennis O’Keefe, says interest in council’s decision to put proposed drive-thru’s on hold until traffic safety issues are addressed has gone nation-wide. O’Keefe says he has been doing interviews with media across the country – but he says there’s another aspect of the issue that’s unfolding. O’Keefe says [...]

CBC | Drive-thru moratorium debate brewing in N.B. cities

Drive-thru moratorium debate brewing in N.B. cities
Last Updated: Friday, January 9, 2009 | 7:43 AM ET Comments87Recommend56
CBC News
The idea of clamping down on drive-thrus that is filtering through a Newfoundland and Labrador city council is causing a full-bodied debate to percolate in New Brunswick.
The city council in St. John’s, N.L., has ordered a moratorium [...]

Lung Association Supporting Drive Thru Moratorium

Lung Association Supporting Drive Thru Moratorium
January 9, 2009

The province’s lung association has thrown its support behind the city’s moratorium on new drive thru’s. Spokesperson Greg Noel says they have been encouraging the public to limit vehicle use for some time, because of environmental and health concerns. Noel says while they may be pursuing change for different reasons, the association is [...]

EDITORIAL | The road to hell is paved with good intentions – and drive-thrus | Grand Falls-Windsor

EDITORIAL COMMENT

We are all at fault
The road to hell is paved with good intentions – and drive-thrus.
In St. John’s, the city council has placed a moratorium on new drive-thru applications.
In this case, the unfortunate business sparking the moratorium was – three guesses and the first two don’t count [...]

Lining up – Grande Prairie may look at bylaw on drive-thru …

Lining up – Grande Prairie may look at bylaw on drive-thru operations to alleviate traffic issues with long lineups
PALOMA MIGONE – Herald-Tribune staff

Tim Hortons’ customers, on 100 Street and 103 Avenue, agree the long drive-thru lines spilling out on streets can be hazardous.

Long lines at a [...]

Former Ottawa City Director Applauds St. John’s Tim Horton’s Drive-through Ban

From the Wires
Former Ottawa City Director Applauds St. John’s Tim Horton’s Drive-through Ban
By: Marketwire .
Jan. 8, 2009 09:20 AM
OTTAWA, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 01/08/09 — Back in 2003, the City of Ottawa established an aggressive policy to restrict the proliferation of drive-through restaurants because of their direct impact [...]

‘I think it’s important to get out of the car and go inside’

Cave Creek sticks to its guns on slower-paced lifestyle
By Linda Bentley | September 24, 2008
‘I think it’s important to get out of the car and go inside’
CAVE CREEK – Parkway Bank didn’t fare much better than the previous applicant during Thursday night’s planning commission meeting with its renewed request for a special use permit (SUP) [...]