Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Should Cities Ban Drive Thrus?" video.

I see a lot of the busier drive throughs having a second lane for ordering. It does speed things up a bit, but more than that and you have logistical issues with needing a way to deliver the food to the other lane, and much of it involves things that are easy to spill like drinks. It's not like banks where they can just put the money into pneumatic tubes for delivery to the car.
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@RedKnight-fn6jr Something I saw fairly often in China was a bike lane marked on the sidewalk. In this case, they probably could and should, route the bikes onto something similar until it gets past the restaurant. And better still, stop approving restaurants have the kitchen in the wrong location. Those cars should be moving through that drive through lane in the opposite direction. This design generates traffic and crash risks the same way that those clover leaves do.
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@Gigaamped That won't ever happen unless the laws are changed to make them not responsible if somebody walking up to the window is injured by a car.
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So, how do you enforce that? By the time you even get to the point of them ordering, it's effectively too late to do anything about it.
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I've personally only seen that when they're really backed up. I tend to refuse to get in a line unless it's relatively short though. Most of the time, I wind up waiting because there's a longer than normal delay.
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That initial restaurant's drive through is operating backwards from how it should, making it even worse. As you go straight for a right turn in, you should get to the entrance before the exit. The city should have a median in the street to prevent people from turning left into the driveway with a left turn/ U-turn lane at the next signaled intersection. And, since that is a bike lane, perhaps put some of those pylons in that deter cars from driving in the bike lane. Also, the drive throughs around here that get super busy tend to have a second lane to take the orders, and presumably more people inside to hand the bags as they get to the window.
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@BluePieNinjaTV Yes, it's doubtful that they do every drive through order first, they probably just put the order in after whatever the most recently taken order is. This isn't that much different from theme parks with express lanes or lanes for the disabled. They have some formula to tell them how much spacing they need to keep things flowing as best as possible for everybody.
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