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Ron Gayer, of Lake Oswego, found a love for climbing after years of running marathons and ultra
marathons.
Perspective
2012
Love of challenge
spurs LO man to
new adventures
‘Untold Stories’
Despite strong efforts by staff and city,
the new Starbucks on Boones Ferry is
triggering some traffic-related angst
Coffee clash
By KARA HANSEN MURPHEY
Assistant Editor
The buzz about the new Starbucks
began before the company even moved
in.
Replacing a closed KFC, the coffee
giant snatched up a rare drive-thru loca-
tion on a busy stretch of road in Lake
Grove. But since the drive-thru opened
last summer, its popularity has caused
headaches for many area drivers.
The crush of morning commuters and
coffee customers converging with a
steady stream of parents dropping off
children
at
nearby
Lake
Grove
Elementary School has created a double
shot of traffic trouble. Many mornings,
usually between 8:30 and 9 a.m., the line
of idling cars snakes around the building,
over the driveway and across the sidewalk
on Douglas Way, spilling into the street
and jamming traffic on Boones Ferry
Road.
Commuters have complained about
the backup. Parents trying to drop off stu-
dents at school have voiced concern
about getting their children to class on
time. A Starbucks customer recently
blamed parents for the problem, accusing
them of blocking the shop’s drive-thru on
trips to and from the school.
Meanwhile, school buses stack up and
block traffic as they wait to get to and
from the Lake Oswego School District’s
bus facility, which is behind Lake Grove
Elementary.
“It’s not exclusive to Starbucks,” said
Lake Oswego Police Lt. Scott Thran, who
heads up traffic enforcement. “Some of
those same problems have developed and
existed with the school being where it’s
at.” At the same time, he noted, it wasn’t
so bad before, when the location served
up buckets of chicken rather than coffee
and tea.
“They’re just very successful,” he said
of Starbucks. “They have a lot of volume
going through the store.”
Thran first met with the drive-thru’s
manager last August to discuss traffic
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