• @pingveno
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    2 years ago

    36 cars. We’ll be generous and say 2 people per car, so 72 people. Let’s say the alternative is a half-half mix of pedestrians and bicycles, with 1 sq meter for the pedestrians and 2 sq meters for the bicycles. So now we have 108 sq meters. So you could fit this many people in approximately a 10 meter x 10 meter space if they were packed fairly tight, plus the building.

    Doing the math on this setup, the dimensions look to be about 50 meters by 30 meters, plus a relatively small building. So 1500 sq meters.

    That said, it does look like this is a pandemic era Starbucks image. You can see the Starbucks logo on the side near the center of the image. There is only one person parked, whereas I would expect at least someone to come into the lobby instead. That doesn’t mean drive throughs aren’t awful, but it does mean it is mostly just over its engineered capacity. An all-drive through design would probably be engineered differently, with more capacity for a line to form and higher throughput.

  • @davidlunadeleon
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    42 years ago

    All in a parking lot many times bigger than the building itself.

    Gotta thank car centric laws and requirements for this kind of aggressive development against anyone who doesn’t own a car, or dares to take a walk or ride a bike.