Should Drive-Thru restaurants allow bicycles?

You know, I’m seeing this news story all over the place today and I’m thinking long and hard about it. Should Drive-Thru restaurants consider bicycles a worthy mode of transportation?

The conclusion I’ve come to is this: it’s being said often in these type of news stories that letting bicycles through increases the likeliness of accidents. But I wonder — how fast are you driving through a drive-thru? I should think that you wouldn’t be driving fast enough to run over a cyclist, are you? And don’t the people who take your order tell you when you can drive up to the window? I don’t drive myself, but I’m pretty sure that’s how the routine goes, right?

And like a lot of these news stories have suggested, there are many drive-thru restaurants that have refused to serve cyclists recently that also claim to be making an effort to be more lifestyle and eco-friendly — including Burgerville (a Pacific Northwest fast food place that composts, uses wind power, recycles its fresh fry oil into biodiesel, and has signs up that say “Drive Less, Save More” — hrmmm.

Now I’d like to know what you think! Do you think it’s too dangerous to let cyclists use drive-thru windows or do you think it’s a bunch of hooey?

Leave me a comment!