…… but it’s not an Ambulance
It’s always interesting when arriving at a hospital to see whether you can park anywhere, let alone in the ambulance and patient transport zones. Some people choose to claim selective blindness by the looks of it. Parking at hospitals is crazy at the best of times. When it’s raining and there’s only so much shelter it gets even more fun.
Westmead is probably the worst, at the University Clinic entrance. The clinic is a very busy place and the car park is usually full by 9am. This makes it difficult for us as we wait for a line of cars to drop off their passengers and then search for parking further a field.
The mentality is that their relative is the only person needing to be picked up/dropped off from the hospital at that point in time.
But whose fault is it for the all too frequent chaotic scenes? Is it anybody’s?
It’s hard to really knock the mentality of people picking up their relatives as we all care for our family. As a result it can be hard to show empathy to others in the same situation.
Is it the hospitals responsibility to provide excess parking? I’m not sure about this as you would be continuously building more parking at a time when the govts are trying to take cars off the road by building Tways around Sydney such as the one running alongside the hospital at Westmead. That being said, if they built more parking they wouldn’t have to wait long to get their money back.
I would like to see more parking ‘sharks’ around, moving people on and making sure the thoroughfare remains clear and that people park where they should. The downside to this is that the sharks are usually pretty heartless and would have no issue dishing out a fine to Ms overworked-single-mum-bringing-in-her-nanna-for-podiatry-appointment if she were to park illegally.
The powers that be could probably reorganise things so that the public can have their set down/pick up zone and the patient transport vans can still have their dedicated zones marked clearly so that the public know what they are. A bit more shelter wouldn’t go astray either.
Westmead is probably the worst, at the University Clinic entrance. The clinic is a very busy place and the car park is usually full by 9am. This makes it difficult for us as we wait for a line of cars to drop off their passengers and then search for parking further a field.
The mentality is that their relative is the only person needing to be picked up/dropped off from the hospital at that point in time.
But whose fault is it for the all too frequent chaotic scenes? Is it anybody’s?
It’s hard to really knock the mentality of people picking up their relatives as we all care for our family. As a result it can be hard to show empathy to others in the same situation.
Is it the hospitals responsibility to provide excess parking? I’m not sure about this as you would be continuously building more parking at a time when the govts are trying to take cars off the road by building Tways around Sydney such as the one running alongside the hospital at Westmead. That being said, if they built more parking they wouldn’t have to wait long to get their money back.
I would like to see more parking ‘sharks’ around, moving people on and making sure the thoroughfare remains clear and that people park where they should. The downside to this is that the sharks are usually pretty heartless and would have no issue dishing out a fine to Ms overworked-single-mum-bringing-in-her-nanna-for-podiatry-appointment if she were to park illegally.
The powers that be could probably reorganise things so that the public can have their set down/pick up zone and the patient transport vans can still have their dedicated zones marked clearly so that the public know what they are. A bit more shelter wouldn’t go astray either.
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