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 [...]

Moratorium | Traffic at Tim Hortons prompts drive-thru crackdown

Traffic at Tim Hortons prompts drive-thru crackdown

Posted By TARA BRAUTIGAM, THE CANADIAN PRESS
The ubiquitous Tim Hortons drive-thru, a daily pit stop for many Canadians on their way to work, has brewed a controversy in Newfoundland and Labrador’s capital city.
Municipal politicians in St. John’s have passed a motion that [...]

St. John’s has ordered a moratorium on new drive-thru applications

Tim’s lineups spark halt to new St. John’s drive-thrus
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 | 5:46 AM ET Comments177Recommend78
The city council in St. John’s has ordered a moratorium on new drive-thru applications, amid concerns that long lineups at some coffee shops are posing persistent traffic and safety hazards.
The only lineups [...]

Moratorium

Dear Members of City Council,
Please direct staff to review the possibility of placing a moratorium on all new commercial drive-through operations. This would be one strategy towards designing our city for people not cars.
A city designed for people not cars would have multiple town centres linked by green spaces, [...]

A-Channel Video – July 15th 2008 Public Participation Meeting

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Support from Denver Vale Nixon, BSc (Victoria), MES (York), MLIS (Western)

Dear Honourable Mayor DeCicco-Best:
I am a London homeowner and doctoral student at the University of Western Ontario (please see address below).  This afternoon I attended the meeting regarding drive-through (a.k.a. “drive-thru”) regulation in London, though perhaps “circus” would be a better description given the behaviour of the Tim Horton’s corporate supporters [...]

Drive-through dustup begins

Drive-through dustup begins
Tue, July 15, 2008

By JENNIFER O”BRIEN , SUN MEDIA

Hundreds of Londoners packed Centennial Hall today for a public hearing on proposed restrictions on fast-food drive-throughs in the city.
An overwhelming majority of the crowd, most of them fast-food workersm, sported blue campaign t-shirts distributed by [...]

Support from Executive Director, Greenpeace in Canada

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FOUNDED IN CANADA, 1971 / FONDÉ AU CANADA, 1971

July 15, 2008

Councilor Judy Bryant
Chair, London Planning Committee
300 Dufferin Avenue.
London, ON
N6B 1Z2

Dear Madam Chair,

I am writing to urge you and the London planning committee to support a temporary moratorium on further “drive through” business operations in London.

While there has been much [...]