It's very common to close dining rooms for drive-through only. It's so common that fast food places are trending to no dining room at all. E.g.
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That's probably a bug when translating forms or the ranger's intent. Our rangers deeply understand the meaning of "paving paradise," hence there's limited parking at trail heads. Car details on permit forms are there so rangers can tow away parking abusers instead of cutting down trees to make a bigger parking lot.
Traditionally you'd write "N/A" or "NONE" if you're being dropped off or hiking through. I suspect that detail got lost in translation to the digital format by making all fields as required.
All that said, thanks for being thoughtful and not driving into a national/state park when it's not necessary. Rangers and us like-minded folk appreciate it.
Requiring a car to eat is ableist. Wheelchair user? Not allowed in the drive though for liability reasons. Blind? Epileptic? Not allowed to drive at all, thus not allowed to buy food because the dining room is closed in the late hours.
There are great alternatives to Jetboil and other heat exchanger systems. Some systems are also cheaper and much lighter. I highly recommend checking out Gearskeptic's Backpacking Stove Efficiency series.
Cool. I'll be in London in a few months. Are the express trains nicer or are they the same sets as the local, but faster?
BART trainsets are uniform. No special airport trains.
It has been a long time since I've been to Tokyo. Narita trains are nice but I never managed to catch the express. Even so, the local is still really nice. :)
It's the same situation with BART. The surcharge only applies when using the airport stations. No extra charge if you're passing by.
FYI, airport surcharges are very common. Across the bay at Oakland has an airport surcharge. Sydney has them too, which I was happy about because Melbourne doesn't have a train (AU $25 for a bus ticket, which was sold out) nor did Hobart. I recall AREX in Incheon also having a significant fare jump for the airport stops.
For argument purposes, BART is $0.18/mile (19th Oakland <> Berryessa). That's still pretty high for regional public transit, which is mostly due to BART's high farebox recovery. That high recovery is now a problem with the whole pandemic and subsequent slow return of ridership.
It appears they changed the article contents? I looked and couldn't find anything about making a parking fee or gas tax. Only that the state is removing a 1% grocery tax and is giving each county the option of keeping or removing the tax.
Maybe there's another article or meeting minutes?
You understand that OP and others are talking about R1 zoning, right? Splitting a single family home into two lots of homes? Or building an inlaw in the backyard? I'd truly enjoy a discussion for exceptionally high density city planning, but our missing housing isn't from highrises. It's legally mandated half acre lots of mostly lawn.
Big corps and developers are not bidding on government contracts to pave over a suburban half acre. For sure they do big projects and what you point out is a problem with those, but it's an independent problem from R1 zoning.
Hell, corps are doing shitty things with today's regulations! Why shouldn't we change our laws to prevent housing exploitation and build more housing in R1 zones?
Yeah, there's a lot of pots that are coated and it sucks. However, the tests and methodology are not tied to them. It's more about how to select different stoves and pots (e.g. lid or no lid?) than a particular product pick. For me, I didn't even buy a new kit. All I did was learn how to optimize my existing kits.
Regarding temperature, I luckily haven't had too much of an issue. Gas gets to sleep with me or hang out in my jacket if it's that cold out. No need for white gas stoves, yet! Maybe someday if the very high mountains call to me.