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Drive-Through Parking

Photo by misskyra/Flickr

In my drive-through piece a while back, I speculated the numbers about drive-throughs somehow being environmentally superior to parking lots might be off for a number of reasons, including the idea that some drivers use the drive through and then park. In any case, I came across this curious sign that seems to connote just that behavior, rather paradoxically.

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Posted on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 10:10 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Up at Yale

Calling New Haven-ites (New Havinians?): I will be appearing in a talk with the estimable Donald Shoup next week at Yale University.

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Posted on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 10:02 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

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