...about Hospital parking?

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I can't believe it's a parking one!
Ok so I live near the centre of a largish town, behind the large Hospital. There's a railway with a footbridge over it so you can walk to the hospital in 2/3 minutes, but to drive there you have to go around and it takes 10-30 minutes depending on traffic which can be awful.

All the streets round here are back-to-back terraces with onstreet parking, so there's basically just over 1 parking space per house.

The problem is that there's never anywhere to park at peak times! I've gone out at 9 before for a 20-minute errand, only to come home and spend half an hour driving around to find a space! (and then have to park 2 streets away). It drives me mental!

The main problems are I think:

1. The hospital. They have a multi-storey car park but I expect it's expensive. So staff park on our road every morning to walk over the footbridge to the hospital. I expect visitors/patients do it too but they're not as recognisable as the staff in their uniforms.

1. It's only a 10-minute walk into town from here, and I think we're the closest non-permit street to the centre (only just outside permit area). So people drive here from out of town, park up, and walk in to do their shopping etc.

What can I do???
I'm thinking a snotty letter to the hospital, and maybe talk to the council? But if they extend the permit area everyone who lives here will have to pay, which I doubt they'll want.

The only thing you can do is ask for permit parking. The hospital can't do anything about people parking legally.

Permit parking. You might have to pay but in the long run it will be better than driving round and round trying to get a space

In my experience from my workplace they positively encourage staff to park on residential areas, other car parks, park and ride , or take the bus, train or car share to work - they don't offer staff parking automatically , it's done on a permit basis dependant on why you think you need to drive in (basically) - there's no allocated area for staff parking other than the likes of on call staff. I would contact the hospital certainly, they might be doing the same as my workplace.

Is this in york?

All you can do is write to the council and request permit parking. They might well extend the permit zone.

Haha ems137 I was trying to keep it vague but well done!

I tried to get permit parking somewhere else I lived, and the council siad they need a petition from the residents... There are a lot of students/young families near us and a lot of renters, so I don't think people will want to pay the fees for permit parking.

Another vote for resident parking. Unless it's in place, getting on to the hospital won't do any use. It's a public highway with no restrictions, at the moment, anyone is free to park there.

Hmm ok I just rang the council, and the lady siad to email them explaining what the problem is and ask what they can do.
I don't know why I bother ringing them, they always just tell you to email!

*said sorry

As above, petition for resident parking.

If there are no restriction somewhere, I always think it's fine to leave my park and have never any issue in parking in residential areas, why wouldn't I?

Grr well I've emailed the council.
There is a road on the other side of York that has signs up saying "Private road, residents parking only". - it's behind a takeaway and I think the residents got annoyed.

Definitely no to sending a snotty letter to the hospital. It's not their fault staff/visitor pack in a perfectly legal parking space.
The only thing you can do is apply for residents parking.

The third problem of course is the football stadium as well, but that's supposed to be moving soon so I can't be bothered to worry about that too!

You can't complain about people parking legally though.

The only thing you can do is what you have already started the ball rolling for - residents' parking permits.

Got a reply already! that was quick:
Dear XXX

Thank you for your email.

The Council will only ever implement a residents parking scheme when it has been requested by the residents. As such, the majority would want to implement such a restriction before it could be considered.

I know that historically the residents of [your street name] have been unsupportive towards implementing a scheme. We have previously received the same query from other residents, but their efforts to encourage a scheme were unsuccessful.

Parking do only administer and enforce existing restrictions, therefore if you did want to pursue the matter you would need to contact our network management department on [email protected]

The first thing you could do is try and gain an understanding of fellow neighbours and then if you feel the majority do want to approach the council, you can produce a petition of support.

Kind Regards
XXX

So I think what they're saying is that I need to guage how many people are interested...
A letter though doors I guess?
Grr I have enough to do without all this faff

I work in a hospital and there isn't enough staff parking, they have issued more permits than there are spaces! I am forced to park in a residential area. I try not to park outside people houses, there are greens, but I end up a 15 min walk away. I have had my car spat on, been blocked in and once someone shouted abuse at me but I can't help needing somewhere to park, there is no public transport from where I live!

Not sure if you related but you have left your street name in your post

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To many cars are to big and often have unused seats in them - sorry but I think cars should be made much smaller. This would help with parking.

So often I see queues of cars on my walk to work with just 1 person in each car and a line of 20 cars - it takes up enormous amounts of space.

Space is limited and if cars were made to be half the size it would help considerably.

Electric bikes would also be a solution, the bike cuts in to assist the rider and pop some panniers on and away shopping you go. Small children and you stick a cart on the front for passengers - less space, no pollution and no agro

Campaign for permit parking
I cant see what the hospital can do, what are you asking them to do about it?

York

No worries TheChineseChicken, a quick look at google maps would have established it anyway!
That's why I'm using my numbery name!

I agree ivykaty44... unfortunately work is a couple of miles away for me and although I cycle once/twice per week I can't do it more often as I have hypermobility and often have very painful knees.
I resisted getting a car for ages but I just wasted so much time on the bus it was ridiculous. It takes about hte same amount of time to drive/cycle, but double that to get the bus!

The multi storey means there is parking at York Hospital but it isn't cheap. I used to work in another city where the hospital had almost no parking and I had to visit for work sometimes. We used to get abuse from the residents and while I Understand it must be frustrating it is legal. You might want to take down your street name in case you are giving York visitors ideas!

Cars half the size would only work if you can afford to buy 2 or 3, and have a "city" car and a "holiday" car. Many families have this arrangement already to be fair, but one car per adult doesn't really solve the problem.

I would be more than happy to pop in town in a Smart, but there's no way we could go anywhere with kids/luggage/ dog in a small car.