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It’s kinda wild how this is banned everywhere when like, those sorts of things are part of why I love living in Minneapolis (though the zoning got stricter and a bunch of that is grandfathered in here too because of course, but it’s still everywhere within city limits)

Pedestrian islands are fine. It's large-radius turns that are the problem. An island is helpful if you're trying to cross four lanes of traffic on foot, as long as the physical structure of the intersection makes drivers stop at a sharp corner when turning instead of zooming around a bend. For that matter, large-radius turns on _roads_ are fine too. Stroads are the problem. But people do have reason to travel more than a few blocks within urban areas. We need some sort of intra-urban roads or through streets. My preferred format is what's sometimes called a "boulevard": a road with a street on each side. The road in the middle can function as a road, because there aren't people trying to turn on and off, or pull over and park, or leave a parking space and merge into traffic. They do all of the local-access stuff from the street on each side. Slow traffic is physically separated from through traffic.

Didn't expect the Mio monologue lmao.

One thing I cannot stand about these places is the food curfew where only the drive-thru is open. Like only people in cars deserve to eat after 9/10pm. I get that drive-thrus are convenient and sometimes I just wanna shave time, but I do prefer to park and just go in. The only time saved is the walking to and from the car. Might as well just be a drive-in. At least Rally's have walk-up windows. Maybe we should bring back drive-ins and slow down America some.

Fun fact, when In-N-Out first came to the Bay Area the lines were so bad they shut down El Camino Real.

Honestly car manufacturers should have to provide everyone with a free car because we all pay taxes for the roads yet only people who can afford cars are able to use them. In other words, without road taxes, car manufacturers would not be able to sell their products. Seems like a giveaway to them.

We have a similar chick-fil-A that was built right on the Atlanta beltline (a bike/ped path with planned transit). It’s such a disaster that city council passed an ordinance banning any new drive-thrus near the Beltline. Progress!

Why wait and eat on a uncomfortable car when you can park and eat on a table MADE TO EAT ON

You’ve managed to perfectly describe Australian culture. I live in Brisbane and there are hundreds of coffee shops and cafes dotted around the suburbs in old converted houses. We incorporated the village lifestyle of the UK with every suburb having its own small commercial zone for your local butcher, baker, hairdresser etc. and the cafe culture of the more recent post WWII Greek and Italian immigrants to create an idyllic society.

I 100% understand why to push back against the slu station. That area gets insane rush hour traffic which could spill over into I5 and for 4 years of development?? It’s a tough sell when the alternative isn’t really worse.

4:40 my city recently introduced ordinance for new developments to obscure their drive-thrus with berms, in order to make the city look better. I had suggested to just not allow new drive-thrus in the city, but whatever.

I'MMz cry if i get fat though.. Ohh wait ONLINE

THIS ONE TIME.. AND ohh Yah the other time.. How bout the time with the kid

Please don't ever give money to Chick-fil-A. The spend a huge amount of money funding anti-gay and anti-trans legislation. They are a hate group. Stop eating there. Stop working there. Stop doing anything that helps Chick-fil-A, even if their chicken sandwiches taste good.

The reason why the company wants drive thru only is because it costs less to service each customer than sit in customers. That is why chick fill a is mostly doing this.

I don't think I've ever seen a bank drive-through that was just an ATM. They always have a pneumatic tube and an intercom to talk to a teller.

The baanks I think are uniquly american insanity but in london (uk) their is a single story mcdonalds drive thru with a surface car park surrounded by skyscrapers and with a consumerbase where having never been to a drive thru (my case) or at most having been a few times while out of town. We also have some that go in the ground floor of blocks of flats which is quite impressive and probably using some of the generaly excessive post war flats ground/basement parking facilities but still feels rather silly.

Ive been dissappointed before by "Im going to walk to X restaurant, its nearby" followed by "Oh they dont let you sit in" and it sucks

Opportunity to meet people during chance encounters? Why on earth would I want that?

Those character models are absolutely atrocious. Wtf were they thinking. You’d have to pay me at least five thousand dollars to play through this game and even then I’m not sure I could. There are a lot of stoic, masculine females though so…take that patriarchy.

This is why I would like a complete ban on ANY SUVs in my city. I propose a new law that would prohibit personal vehicles over these dimension restrictions below. This will eliminate virtually all crossovers and SUVs. Plus, a displacement limit of 3 liters. Vehicles closer to these restrictions will incur a much higher road tax than smaller cars. Here is a summary. (For consumer vehicles) Dimension laws (no more than): (Length: 5 meters) (Width: 1.9 meters or 74.8 inches wide) (Height: 1.5 meters for cars over 4.3 meters in length, 1.6 meters for cars under 4.25 meters long, and 1.7 meters for MPVs (not SUVs) of any size below the maximum length and width restrictions). Engine displacement laws (no more than): 3 liters CO2 Emission laws (no more than): 125 g/km on official WTLP charts. Road tax (% of maximum dimension restrictions) 95% or more: 55% of purchase price 85%: 45% of purchase price 75%: 35% of purchase price 60%: 20% of purchase price 50% or less: 10% of purchase price This means an executive car like a Mercedes E class would have a tax rate of over half the purchase price of the vehicle ($60,000 msrp + $33,000 tax = $93,000 total cost) (For commercial vehicles) (MUST PROVE COMMERCIAL LICENCE and PROOF OF APPROPRIATE WORK) Dimension laws: varied depending on job type. (Example: Larger for construction vehicles and heavy machinery, smaller for delivery vans) Displacement laws: varied depending on job type. (up to 8 liters for construction vehicles, up to 3 liters for delivery vans) Emission laws: must have written permission if vehicle produces more than 350 g/km. Class 6+ trucks must have written permission and an appropriate job site (building/public works construction, demolition) and will be restricted within a designated area and route. Class 5 and below still must provide a commercial vehicle license and proof of job (meaning NO personal pickup trucks) but is mostly freely allowed to be anywhere unless marked otherwise. These strict laws will decrease pedestrian deaths as SUVs will be completely banned. The hefty road tax would also deter people from getting bigger vehicles and may even increase pedestrianization.

The justification they gave for not including mechs and bioweapons is exactly the same thing they used a decade ago for skyrim not having levitation magic, it's juts a ridiculous excuse in worlds where there's already people who break laws. Like, yeah, they'll hunt people down, displace and murder them, but they won't use banned magics/technologies....right.

The moment i get in a truck/suv i go into saftey mode and pay extra attention to everything. I also go slower and give more follow distance. Why can't people just get a full size sedan. Literally they're safer and easier to see around and maneuver also better on gas.

Shawrk Cawds... Guess Emil didn't want his self-insert to die like in fallout 4

Pods make perfect sense when you need a transit solution for your galactic hub megalopolis with 27 structures and a population of 490

I used a drive thru. It was rubbish. The microphone and speaker didn't work well so there was misunderstanding that wouldn't happen face to face and it was no quicker than walking in.

There seems to be something missing from the equation, if the centre is more eating, drinking and activity based, then more people will probably arrive using a transport method other than private vehicle. However, if the activity is primarily retail and people are going to be encouraged to spend, they will also need ways to get their purchases home, which would favour private vehicles as it is difficult getting a shopping cart full of food back home using public transport or on a bike. Underground or Multi-story parking can also be considered which would maximise the available land.

The game has no internal logic. Nothing stopped me from setting up an outpost on Paradiso and strip mining it.

I do kind of think this drive thru's location iself is its enemy. It is literally at the corner of one of the busiest intersections in Bellevue... sigh.

Starfield is too ambitious for a single player game. Having the earth be a total dry desert In just 250 years makes no sense, the scale is totally wrong which is a persistent issue in sci fi of all kinds

Did you not find the shanty town that the employees of the hotel live in?

Some lines extend into the street and cause annoying traffic.

Aroura Borealis

They're pandemic proofing their business.

congrats from another reno to washington transplant

hahaha, can't stop laughing the moment you said transit system, but then, you don't seem to notice the elevation difference of the spaceport station to the rest..i don't see any inclines, so i assume there's an elevator somewhere that moves the car up or down...

If you think skyrim was peak... Morrowind would like a word!

They need to stop allowing drive-thrus to impose inconveniences on others. 1. Don't make special modifications to the roads (e.g. extra left-turn cutouts to medians) just to accommodate one business. If that deters customers then find a better location. 2. Ticket drivers who block sidewalks or traffic lanes while waiting for the drive-thru. If there is no room then go somewhere else. Let the restaurant figure out how to appease angry customers who can't be served. 3. Eating while driving should be considered distracted driving and punished the same way.

i’m sorry but any toyota suv is the best truck/family car you’ll EVER need we once owned a 2020 highlander and it was the best car ever

You know your game is not really mature when even Shadow the Hedgehog has more EDGE than a rated "M for Mature" game. Seriously, there is no edge in Starfield, it's like the game was 100% designed not to offend EVERYONE, so no one, even THE BAD GUYS say anything with any real edge, for fear of offending anyone EVER.

Also, getting Earth to turn into nothing but a giant desert was just an excuse for Bethesda to not make a big city.

Even small ones are terrifying. I hate it.

Even worse than driving drunk, to me driving while fatigued has proven to be as deadly if not moreso than while intoxicated. I wouldn't drive under any of the two circumstances but fatigued driving does not get talked about nearly enough.

Why is the colony ship even aimed at a planet? You spend all that energy to escape a gravity well only to sink down into a different one immediately? Laaame! Planets are so old fashioned, the colony should be built in space.

Everyday I wake up and be thankful to not leave near America hell 😊

Seeing CalTrain electrification proves again how Puget Sound is always one step and 30 years behind the Bay Area. ST doesn’t even have electrification of Sounder on its radar.

• unhealthy food • lack of exercise • dangerous to pedestrians • emissions that wreck our environment & health • blocks driving lanes • inefficient (generally 1-2 people/car. Despite seating 5-7) • long wait times • nowhere to sit

Wait, right turns on red? They're allowed to go on reds there? Lmao.

In case you weren’t familiar with the history of that particular Chickfila, up until a few months ago, it did have indoor dining. They recently closed it down for several months and reworked it into the form you see today with the walk up window and more space allocated to the drive thru. That Chickfila used to be a huge traffic hazard because the line would constantly back up into the street on a daily basis. They probably crunched some numbers, saw drive thru was where most of their business was coming from, and saw they could (mostly) fix the traffic backup issue as well by reclaiming more of their lot space for drive thru queue. To be clear I dislike the car-centric design as well, but as you said, in this case it was a symptom of a larger problem.

The effects of the pandemic should not be ignored here. Before 2020 it was not unusual on nights that my wife wasn't home for our son and I to go eat out at a local restaurant. But once restaurants closed and became just pickup and drive through spots we started getting food to go and eating at home while watching Disney+ or something. Now that it is (mostly) safe to eat in restaurants we still do pickup all the time as frankly it's quieter, more enjoyable and safer not to have the rabble around you when you are eating. I doubt that we will ever go back to eating in before he's moved out on his own in a couple of years.