The three women on the council seemed to empathize, though
Calvin Ball and Greg Fox both pointed out that they were dads and therefore not
unsympathetic to the challenge of dealing with three kids in the car. Greg
appeared to support the Planning Boards decision.
The bottom line is that drive-through lanes, particularly
for fast food, are bad. According to this post on the Sierra Club blog, cars
idling in drive thru lanes are a big waste of energy.
“Taking the fast-food industry as an example, and taking
into account that the average McDonald's drive-through wait is 159 seconds, we
can calculate that the company's consumers burn some 7.25 million gallons of
gas each year. The figure for the entire U.S. fast-food industry? Roughly 50
million gallons.”
There is also the health issue. It seems to me that getting
those three kids out of the car and moving around is a good way to negate the impact
of eating fast food.
Then again, I am a man…and a dad.
