Parking!

[Meowmeowparking]

More of I need to vent than AIBU, although may be IABU and you call all tell me off!!

I work at a hospital in a very 'naice' area, most people living in this area are quite well off families or retirees. I would say most hospital employees on average wages can't afford to live near the hospital or even in fact in the city the hospital is in. Public transport is also quite shite, even more so for shift times and people are reluctant to walk/ride to work as it's too far and also they wouldn't feel safe doing it after say a 10pm shift finish. The point is most people drive to work from cheaper places to live nearby.

The dilemna:

-Hospital wanted to build a multistorey car park to accommodate staff cars

• Local residents kicked up a fuss and complained to council it would ruin their view
• This is despite the fact you can see the hospital from their houses anyway, multistorey wouldn't have been higher than existing hoapital buildings and hospital is surrounded by lots of tall trees so multistorey would be partially out of sight
• Anyway multistorey car park not built
• Therefore insufficient parking and some hospital employees must park on the road
• Local residents now get pissy that people park on the roads near their houses

AIBU to think that:

• You can't stop the hospital building sufficient parking spaces and then get shitty when people have to park somewhere else
• The vast majority of these local residents have driveways sufficient for at least 2 cars anyway, it's not like they're all blocks of terraced houses with no off road parking
• The hospital staff are almost unanimously parking legally and politely, not annoyingly close to dropped kerbs etc (although I'm sure there's always that 1 person who parks like a twat)
• If you bought a house near a hospital you have to reasonably expect there will be some consequences!
• It's pretty fucking hypocrital to shout abuse at hospital workers on the street for parking there and then expect them to be polite and nice to you when you want to use the hospitals services?
• People have no right to dictate who can park on a public road anyway
• Local residents want their cake and to eat it too and probably wish that all us poor folk would just exist in a bubble to run the hospital without inconvenciencing them by having to drive to work as we cant afford to live here, obviously I am not serious about this point but sometimes it feels this way!

Ugh!

It’s the John Radcliffe isn’t it?

I think this is the royal Preston hospital. They want to crack on with the multistorey

Coventry?
This exact situation is happening at my local hospital.
Although the area surrounding the hospital the residents need permits, so some of them are making money from the staff by charging them and letting them park on their drives.
I live a 10 minute drive away but have to leave around an hour before to get a parking space to make it to my appointment on time.
I mean it's okay for the people that live around the hospital to make appointments as they made sure when the hospital was being rebuilt they put in walkways for them to get on hospital grounds instead of walking all the way round.

I was going to ask if it was my local hospital which is none of the ones already mentioned!

Lol at all the x-posts.

I know both the JR and the RPH well. Similar issues with the fancy people in their fancy houses with their fancy cars on the drive expecting all the hospital workers and visitors to bus in.

At my local hospital they did actually build the multi-storey. However, it’s one of those temporary structure jobs that are basically made with scaffolding poles. The spaces are so tiny they’re mostly unusable and the whole thing feels like it’s going to take off in high winds.

YANBU at all. Absolute NIMBYs. I struggle to imagine how anyone could suggest you’re being unreasonable with this!

Seems like this happens regularly

Royal Berkshire?

The hospital in Exeter has a park and ride shuttle bus, but I've no idea whether it operates 24 hours for shift workers.

Where there's a will there's a way to please nearly everyone.

The JR are apparently having dreadful problems with recruitment because no one can afford to live anywhere close and the public transport is dreadful!

This is the same in my area as well (none of those mentioned!)-you are right though.

Surely round the JR it's all permitted so that staff wouldn't be able to park on the streets? Theblqck of space in general is an issue but also wish they'd sort the issue of the barrier letting you into the car park because it thinks there's 15spaces but all those spaces are for blue badge holders so you're just stuck in the car park with nowhere to go...

Not going to mention the hospital

Only the streets immediately next to the hospital are permit only, all the rest are non permit. A lot of the roads even have white lines designating where you can/can't park as well to make sure there's enough space for emergency vehicles, passing spaces on narrow roads, people don't park super close to dropped kerbs etc. So it's really not like there's vast amounts of hospital workers completely blocking up the roads as the council somewhat addressed this by drawing on the road where acceptable places to park are iyswim?

And let's not get started on the number of people with glorified patios paved over gardens but refuse to drop their kerb and expect no one to park anywhere outside their house even where the kerb is raised. I don't park in front of these houses regardless as I prefer to not be abused as have heard horror stories from other colleagues

Yes it sounds very much like Walsgrave. My cousin has had a pass for years now it has been taken off her. She had to park over a mile away and walk in. They should have done the multi storey car park originally. We get the bus if we have an appointment.

@ShalomJackie - RBH did actually build the multi storey car park. Not that you can ever get a space in it...

Its been a while since I have been there RustyBear but it doesn't surprise me!

Only the streets immediately next to the hospital are permit only, all the rest are non permit. So it looks like the permit-only people objected, and the rest are the ones who suffer?

Not that I really feel NIMBYism is the evil it's portrayed to be. After all, no-one's going to look at a planning application in another town and think "gosh, those houses are going to be overlooked, they'll lose all the privacy in their gardens, I'll put in an objection". It's only the people directly affected who will object. And why shouldn't they? Usually some sort of compromise is reached - eg the building goes ahead but with landscaping and some restrictions to minimise the bad effect on those expected to suffer for the greater good.

MereDintofPandiculation - not sure who actually objected but might be the case. The multistorey wouldn't have been any higher than existing hospital buildings which already are visible from the houses, even if they'd just built a 2 or 3 level car park it would be enough and would still be less tall than the trees that surround the hospital