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I will say this: Starbucks doesn't function like a McD's or BK Lounge for drive-throughs - it has a limited stock of foods that it runs through over the course of a given day, unlike standard fast food drive-through franchises. In my experience, this means the person taking orders has to recite what they do and don't still have in stock, and for customers to reconfigure if and what they will order, and this whole process slows everything down. It was a stupid decision to allow Starbucks be the drive-through option.
"New York could join 41 other states by raising its speed limit to 70 mph on the Thruway and other state highways.
State Sen. Tom O'Mara introduced a bill that would allow the state Department of Transportation and Thruway Authority to increase the maximum speed limit from 65 to 70 mph.
The speed limit for most of the Thruway consisting of interstates 87 and 90 is 65 mph. Other state highways, including a portion of Route 5 near Syracuse, also have 65 mph speed limits. On state-owned roads, there are reduced speed limits in densely populated areas.
The 65 mph speed limit has been in effect since 1995 when then-Gov. George Pataki signed legislation increasing it from 55 mph. At that time, New York was the 44th state to raise its speed limit to 65 mph.
Nearly 30 years later, most states have adopted 70 mph speed limits for rural interstates, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Forty-one states have set 70 mph or higher speed limits for at least portions of these highways.
The holdouts, like New York, are mostly in the Northeast. Four neighboring states — Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Vermont — have 65 mph speed limits.
O'Mara, a Big Flats Republican, thinks it is time to raise the speed limit.
"New York has failed to keep up with the rest of the country by not adopting a more efficient speed limit," he wrote in his justification for the bill. "This bill would correct this inefficacy by allowing for a 70 mph speed limit where appropriate."
Over the years, there have been other attempts to increase the state's speed limit on the Thruway and other highways. Bills have been introduced to raise the speed limit to 75 mph, but the state Legislature has not voted on those proposals."
I know that MI had a 70 mph speed limit on highways back at least 30 years ago and this should have been done decades ago.
"With McDonald's gone, five rest stops — DeWitt, Guilderland, Mohawk, Port Byron, Schuyler — will have no restaurants. The Thruway Authority has said that the McDonald's locations will be replaced with "temporary dining options including Applegreen (convenience stores) offering an assortment of hot food items as well as grab-and-go sandwiches and wraps, salads, coffee, snacks, drinks and more." The stores will be open 24 hours a day.
The four other rest stops losing McDonald's locations — Angola, Malden, Modena and Ontario — have other restaurants. For example, Angola has several other food options, including Subway.
With Empire State Thruway Partners taking over the operation of the 27 rest stops, new restaurants will replace McDonald's and others that have been mainstays along the superhighway. Chick-fil-A, Popeye's and Shake Shack are among the restaurants at the rebuilt service areas. Select rest stops will have Panda Express or Panera Bread."
This makes no sense. McDonalds is better than no restaurant at all and a much more varied menu than the replacements, but then again this is NYS.
"With McDonald's gone, five rest stops — DeWitt, Guilderland, Mohawk, Port Byron, Schuyler — will have no restaurants. The Thruway Authority has said that the McDonald's locations will be replaced with "temporary dining options including Applegreen (convenience stores) offering an assortment of hot food items as well as grab-and-go sandwiches and wraps, salads, coffee, snacks, drinks and more." The stores will be open 24 hours a day.
The four other rest stops losing McDonald's locations — Angola, Malden, Modena and Ontario — have other restaurants. For example, Angola has several other food options, including Subway.
With Empire State Thruway Partners taking over the operation of the 27 rest stops, new restaurants will replace McDonald's and others that have been mainstays along the superhighway. Chick-fil-A, Popeye's and Shake Shack are among the restaurants at the rebuilt service areas. Select rest stops will have Panda Express or Panera Bread."
This makes no sense. McDonalds is better than no restaurant at all and a much more varied menu than the replacements, but then again this is NYS.
What healthy choices ! (sarcasm). I'm old enough to remember when you could get fresh pancakes right off the grill from the Thruway rest areas .
I couldn't do that if I was driving. I'd be dozing off. But that brings up a good point. In the link I just posted, DiNapoli want's to find non toll revenue. Maybe they could allow mom and pop stores and restaurants to locate between the Major rest stops.
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