We can appreciate how stressful it can be when parking is difficult, particularly at your place of work, but it is often difficult to have much sympathy for the hospital staff who use our residential streets as their own private car park. While the hospital car park may fill up fairly quickly, there are still spaces available at 8 o'clock in the morning. However, our roads and pavements are free as opposed to the £1.20 per day fee charged by the hospital or the monthly permits for £14.40.
Finding a parking space when attending the hospital as a visitor or patient is also stressful. However, sympathy for these peoples' plight is lost on hearing about the abuse that residents have suffered from the staff and visitors. Threats to "punch your teeth out" or to burn a house or car down do little for their cause and it was a nurse who left a note on an elderly gentleman's car which was parked safely and legally outside his own home, calling him a "selfish bastard".
Wouldn't all of these people be better off in a hospital multi-storey car park?
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i agree a multi-story is the answer also including underground parking like other cities i have lived in
ReplyDeleteThe hospital say that they can't afford a multi-storey but the new plans are part of a £33 million wider development. They should postpone some of the work at least and use the money to fund the car park.
ReplyDeleteMy husband got a load of verbal abuse from a nurse and he hadn't even said anything to her! She was parking perfectly legally and not covering our drive and he couldn't believe that she felt justified in yelling abuse at him when he hadn't even complained or said a word to her. When he said he had no issue with her she gave him more abuse! If it's so stressful for the staff to park they should just pay the pittance of a car parking fee which the hospital charge. They want to try working in Newcastle where you have to pay £5 per day to park.
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