HOW IS THIS a Drive-thru? Costa on Plas Coch Retail Park.
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Cannot believe this got a green light, this entire site is a nightmare to get onto or off at peak times, Aldi Expanding and now this Bull Dust of an idea. How can anything on this site be considered DRIVE THRU. Just do not get the concept of needing DRIVE THU coffee shops, with this one plus another two on the cards within a two mile radius. be ready to spot the cups clattered up and down our link roads.
Don’t worry. Once people realise that it takes 5 minutes to brew the coffee, the business will fall away.
Under rule 148 of the Highway Code it states that “Safe driving and riding needs concentration. Avoid distractions when driving or riding such as eating and drinking.”
Doesn’t a Drive-thru encourage this? If I were PC Plod, I would be sat outside writing £100 tickets and 3 points on their licences!
Under rule 148 of the Highway Code it states that “Safe driving and riding needs concentration. Avoid distractions when driving or riding such as eating and drinking.”
Doesn’t a Drive-thru encourage this? If I were PC Plod, I would be sat outside writing £100 tickets and 3 points on their licences!
The days the police had the time and the will to do that are long gone !!
Also Plod would need to prove you weren’t in control of the vehicle as a result of the distraction. Eating and drinking at the wheel is perfectly legal otherwise. That’s why the highway code just says “avoid”, not MUST NOT.
All interesting , however my point was to A) Hi-lite the fact that this cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be classed as being DRIVE THRU, more a drive too, and compound an already congested bottle neck location. B) Question the need for such a facility AT ALL. Not a luddite, just displaying some common sense.
It’s just the Americanisation of the country again – get people to leave their cars as little as possible – maximum throughput of customers.
You look at traditional cafes and coffee shops and they are social places where people stop and relax (even if you were driving somewhere with roadside cafes) – now people are forced to believe that their time is so scarce that they only have time to blast through the drive through coffee and drink scalding hot coffee whilst attempting to drive and do all their socialising (legally hands-free or illegally) on a phone. It’s absolutely pathetic.
Also Costa Coffee is like processed hot vomit at a 300% price mark up. You order one of their cold drinks and they pour in some god awful sugar syrup into it. For any actual caffeine aficianados – it is literally a violation to taste.
Went to Ty Mawr a few weeks back & there’s a little coffee outlet there that makes fantastic coffee with much better surroundings.
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