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The state alcohol control, which is currently working on a new alcohol license for nightclubs, is open to the idea of extending or staggering opening times for bars in the cities, according to Rick Garza, the Chamber of the Deputy Executive Director. "We are ready to continue the discussion" about the later opening times ", so that you do not hurry to have the clock at 2:00 of people from all at the same time" and the fighting, piling into cars, or bickering over scarce taxis, Garza says. However, Garza adds, because the alcohol board deals with the fine-tuning its nightclub license (from: a determination that a ban on all-ages shows remain: provisions allowing the Board to refuse a license if it notes, there is already "a reasonable" nightclubs in one area), it will probably not happen this legislature session.
Bar owners generally later opening times, for obvious reasons: The longer people drink, the more bar owners make. Perhaps more to the point that people are not the clock until 11:00 or midnight, bar owners say, was "pressure on the bars to get our numbers and pressure on [drinkers] to knock 'em back," Red Door owner Pete Hanning says. "I have many customers who are not my place until 11:30 clock in the night, and I am the first stop." More licensing hours would recognize the reality that people do not go out at 9:00 clock and at midnight the way home no more. The amendment would confirm that Seattle is a great city like New York City, Atlanta, Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Dallas, Indianapolis, Honolulu, Memphis, Nashville, London and Washington, DC, which all are allowed, closing hours have elapsed 2.00
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wannabeintellectual:Men, women drinking hours could also be the people from slamming back drinks to beat last call, hold very drunk closing hour patrons from the street (and out of the car). How Showbox owner Jeff Steichen points out, when people do not go until 11:30 clock in the night, they only have two hours to drink before last call at 1:30 in the morning. "It is a very short time for all to drink," Steichen said. This is not the man to drink, but only requires them to very quickly.
But it is no longer drinking hours only lead to more drunk driving and fights? Counterintuitive as it may seem, numerous studies have shown that later opening times actually reduce drunken driving accidents and violence, because people do not feel forced to slam back drink after drink until closing time. According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study in 2001, later closing times correlated directly with lower alcohol-related traffic deaths.
More people on the streets for a long time, can also make people feel safer, especially in the hours 2:00 to 5:00, when roads are now empty. Conversely, not everyone would have to leave the bars in the same time, which means less pollution for the neighbors of bars and clubs. In Belltown, "it is a kind of Mad Rush with all bars rental, all at the same time, and there is a problem for the residents," Spitfire co-owner Marcus Charles says. "If you have a natural flow of people in the night, I think it really would be better for the neighbors."
Some neighborhood activists, but not wild about the prospect that more drunken bar patrons staggering around their neighborhood on the later hours. Vafa Ghazi, a member of the Council, Fremont neighborhood lives near two large Fremont nightclub, says he in favor of 24-hour licensing, but not later opening times. He also disagreed with the premise that "people really want to stay later. "Closing at 4:00 is just about everything to 4:00," Ghazi says. "That means that instead of [drinkers] waking me at 2:00 in the morning, they are after me up at 4:00 in the morning.