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Streetfilms: Bike-Thru Bank Window

Oct 13th, 2008
by Kevin Buchanan.

This Streetfilm shows a rarity - a bicycle drive-thru at a bank. This one’s located in Boulder, Colorado. It’d be nice if banks in urban Fort Worth could provide a bike lane, as many banks refuse to do transactions with bike-using customers in drive-thrus.

Posted in: Bicycling.

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4 Comments on “Streetfilms: Bike-Thru Bank Window”

  1. #1 Jonathan
    on Oct 13th, 2008 at 8:55 am

    Who refuses transactions from people on bikes? I’ve never heard of any bank doing that.

  2. #2 Bernie
    on Oct 13th, 2008 at 9:11 am

    I’ve heard of a few of the big national banks refusing bicycles in the drive-through.

    It’s one of the reasons I use a small neighborhood bank (Fort Worth National, now Southside Bank). They’ve never objected to my bicycling through their drive-through lanes, and I think I might get even friendlier service when I’m on the bike than when I’m in the car, because when I’m on the bike they see a person outside their window… not a car.

  3. #3 JP
    on Oct 13th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Is it me, or does it seem that banks are sprouting up everywhere amidst all the new construction around town?

    Maybe that proposed Comerica Bank on 8th and Magnolia should consider a bike-thru window.

  4. #4 Kevin Buchanan
    on Oct 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am

    Bernie is correct - the bigger banks have been known to refuse service to bikes in the drive-through. I don’t recall precisely where I read about it recently, but it does happen.

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