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Originally Posted by MiEncanto
The one on Taylor doesn’t serve anyone other than asu students. That is obvious.
All the complaints about a drive through are hollow. Should the McDonald’s be demo’d? The double drive through will reduce traffic congestion! You should be pleased it’s not a single lane. It won’t bring more cars to downtown- they are here already. Everyone I know that lives downtown save one has and uses a car.
You can claim your nuanced argumentation but I’m reflecting what it sounds like.
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I don't work for ASU, yet my coworkers sometimes go to that Chick-fil-A. It certainly does serve ASU students, but it's hardly limited to them. More importantly, it's evidence that a non-drive-thru format can work just fine for the brand. With respect to the McDonald's a quarter mile to the south, I hope it is eventually replaced with a more productive, less car-centric use of that prime land -- not via government edict, but instead via market forces.
Cars may already be downtown, but that's no reason to encourage people to use them for every errand. The Taylor Chick-fil-A is meant to be approached on foot. This one should be too. The double drive-thru will do nothing to reduce congestion. It will only serve to induce more demand, increase congestion, and make the landscape more hostile to non-automotive travel.
Your claim that nearly everyone you know Downtown is car-reliant reflects a landscape in which non-automotive transport in disincentivized by bad design. Fix the design and some mode shift will likely occur. The least nuanced approach to looking at issues like this is one of relentless status-quo-ism:
Everyone has a car and uses it so we shouldn't even think we could do things differently. No thanks.