09-29-2017, 08:18 PM
(09-29-2017, 07:55 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(09-29-2017, 05:53 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Should the same requirement (of hiring flaggers) apply to parking lots? Parking structures? Loading docks? Car washes? On-street parking spaces?
On the upside there could be a tremendous upsurge in employment for professional flaggers, leading to eventual full employment in the country.
The requirement would not be to hire a flagger, but rather to avoid having an undue impact on the street traffic, by whatever means necessary, up to and including closing the drivethrough.
Some people think zoning should forbid drivethroughs in urban areas. I think zoning should require that drivethroughs (and other property uses) not have an undue impact on their surroundings. Blocking the only travel lane on an important street through town counts as an undue impact.
Common sense should tell drivers to go to a different drive thru. Unfortunately that sense isn't common.
Obviously on a street like this they'll make changes, either Tim Hortons or the Region or both, you don't want traffic backed-up on King if an Ambulance needs to go through.