Because soon we won't need legs. We are being flooded with drive-thrus.
What next? Drive-thru daquiri shacks (they're very popular in Louisiana), drive-thru hair cuts, drive-thru strip clubs?
I can see the headline: Bottomless Body Found In Topless Bar
There's a reason people in NYC are trimmer than their small-city and suburban counterparts. They walk.
We, on the other hand, drive-thru.
And Middletown will be on the cutting-edge of drive-thru soon, just at the moment when oil hits a hundred bucks a barrel. And, there really are folks in diabetes, obesity and metabolism research working with architects on progressive building design to increase foot mobility, calorie burning, and thereby decrease obesity. They would make stairways more prominent than elevators and escalators, and encourage walk-ups instead of drive-thrus.
Advocates say it a lot, and politicians give it lip-service, but pedestrian-friendly, and drive-thru, are, after all, mutually exclusive.
Al Gore wins a Nobel for talking about carbon footprint, and we strap on a bigger set of carbon shoes.
