Thank you for choosing to no longer use drive-thrus…

On behalf of our children, your children and children all over our small planet – thank you for your time and consideration.

Council of Canadians

http://www.canadians.org/
http://councilofcanadianslondon.wordpress.com

Social Aspects – Community

So do we choose to protect and keep non essential items such as drive-thrus or do we choose to re-design our planet in which future generation can live?  The benefits are immense – environmental health, physical health.  People stepping out of their cars symbolize people re-engaging in community. Such a culture shift is a step [...]

Employment – Industry

The industry states local jobs will be lost.  Is this a viable argument?  Red Roaster seems to be doing well in London.  There are cafes and restaurants across Canada – with no drive-thrus – all doing well.  Speaking of fast food industry employment – health for most minimum wage fast food employees working a drive-thru [...]

From the University of Calgary:

View the study here: edmonton-drive-thru-study
The University of Alberta in Edmonton is one of the top 100 teaching and research universities in the world serving some 37,000 students with more than 11,000 faculty and staff. Founded a century ago, the university has an annual budget in excess of $1 billion and attracts more than $480 [...]

CBC Investigation on Drive-Thrus

It is interesting to note that in a CBC investigation produced on May 28th, 2007, journalists documented 113 cars going thru the drive-thru in one hour in a Winnipeg Tim Horton’s drive-thru.  The average drive-thru wait per vehicle was 5 min. 15 sec. Natural Resources Canada estimates these cars produced 290 grams of CO2 each [...]

INDUSTRY…Drive-thru Proliferation

It would be wonderful if multinational corporations would place our children, even people in general, before their profits.  However – this is not about to happen.  Corporations are legally bound to show profits to their shareholders first and foremost.  This is at any cost.  There are no boundaries.  There are no ethical or moral considerations. [...]

A Call for an Immediate Moratorium on New Drive-thrus

Although our ‘Clean Air for Children’ campaign is a three part initiative (with more to come in the near future) – the call for a moratorium continues to be the most ‘controversial’ part of the campaign.

With 150 drive-thrus currently in existence in London alone – one would not think this would be an issue.

However – [...]

Drive-thru Ban Resolutions

Capitola California:

Section F:
http://www.ci.capitola.ca.us/capcity.nsf/ComDevIntro.html:
(community commercial district – 17.27.060 – section f)

p. 831.475.7300

San Luis Obispo California:
http://www.codepublishing.com/ca/sanluisobispo/
(document attached – section F)
p. 805.781.7114

Carrboro, North Carolina:
[Still trying to find the actual resolution on this site]
http://www.ci.carrboro.nc.us/PZI/luo.htm
p. 919.918.7324
San Luis Obispo Municipal Code.pdf
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Traffic, air-quality concerns could mean double-double trouble for drive-thrus

December 8, 2007 – 16:31
Steve Lambert, THE CANADIAN PRESS
It might be tempting to pull up to the drive-thru window to fill up on food and coffee on frosty winter mornings, but some Canadian communities are arguing that traffic safety and concern for the environment should trump convenience.
At some popular fast-food restaurants across the country, lineups [...]

Let’s ban all drive-thrus in the city

May 21, 2008
Vera C. Busshoff
Dear Editor – Re: “Gas-guzzling vehicles” (letter to the editor, May 12).
As residents of an eight-storey apartment building adjacent to a fast-food drive-thru, we are literally poisoned into early graves. It does not take a mathematic genius or a top-ranking eco-scientist to ascertain we are not being overdramatic in our conclusion.
Nine [...]