Drive in Costa outlet for Snargate Street

• Martyn Webster

  • Registered: 18 Nov 2017
  • Posts: 56
  21 July 2022     12:18377815
  #1      
  DDC have just published a planning application for a Costa drive thru outlet in Snargate Street.This might pose some more interesting traffic situations on this very busy road

  
• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
  • Posts: 3,109
  21 July 2022     15:14377817
  #2      
  The last makeover of the Union Street junction included traffic lights for the premises.
  (Not my real name.)
• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 4,321
  21 July 2022     16:04377819
  #3      
  Handy for those queuing in the traffic!
  
  Terry
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• Matey

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 11 Oct 2021
  • Posts: 178
  21 July 2022     16:47377820
  #4      
  I hope a queue there doesn’t end up blocking the road like Big Macs does at Whitfield!
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• Gary39

  • Registered: 7 Jul 2017
  • Posts: 454
  21 July 2022     17:27377822
  #5      
  I think those traffic lights at the junction from the planned site will seriously effect the traffic flow… was not the idea of removing the roundabout to speed up traffic flow…
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• Guest 3925

  • Registered: 28 Nov 2020
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  21 July 2022     17:34377823
  #6      
   Terry Nunn wrote:

  Handy for those queuing in the traffic!
  Terry

  
  Call me cynical, but you might be onto something there! DHB and DDC know the queues are not going to get any better, you wait until ESS comes in!
• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
  • Posts: 3,109
  21 July 2022     19:15377830
  #7      
  The roundabouts were removed, I thought, to prevent rejected outbound trucks doing a 180 and forcing their way back into the queue.
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• Guest 3706

  • Registered: 21 Jul 2020
  • Posts: 126
  3 October 2022     01:44378703
  #8      
   Matey wrote:

  I hope a queue there doesn’t end up blocking the road like Big Macs does at Whitfield!

  
  
  
  Have you EVER seen ANYONE in a Costa Drive-thru (through)?
  
  Quite sure they are a front !
• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
  • Posts: 3,261
  3 October 2022     09:10378706
  #9      
  Yes and the Starbucks ones, not the fastest drive service mind!
  Arte et Marte