Hospital Car Park

[bankerboy]

They should just do what they've done at the community health centre (old Nobles). Put barrier entry to the car park and to exit you need a token from the clinic or ward you're visiting. Simple and cheap.

Hardly simple and cheap. The barrier (illegally) blocks a long established right of way, the display of available spaces doesn't work, and the cheapest way would not have been to install this expensive entry and exit system, but to have included the car park within the disc zone, with a 2 hour limit. After all, presently the wardens walk around the front of the nurses home where it's double yellows they could have walked thru the car park instead a few times a day. Once again, badly designed over engineering!

[finlo]

Someone has to pay for a hospital car park.

Why not the people who make use of it?

As for managing it that will be for someone to 'buy' the concession and operate the car park, probably paying a percentage of the profits back to the hospital.

It works well over here.

To add - in the case of most hospitals staff also pay to park. It's the accepted thing. After all a car belonging to a staff member us taking up just as much space as a visitor. Otherwise parking becomes a benefit in kind that should be taxable.

Does the church pay tax on the collection plate?

[mad_manx]

Why don't they issue tickets to the people who park their cars on the double yellow lines at the hospital?.Do these cars belong to visitors or staff?

[Moghrey Mie]

When our local hospital started charging for car parking in 1990's they insisted that any income raised would be purely for the maintenance.

It was for the first year. But after that it became a source of revenue for the Health Authority.

At first they charged the staff for parking while visiting and working. But this was later changed after an uproar.

 

 

The car park at New Noble's is too small. If people who work in Douglas want a Park and Ride in that area let's see if we can provide one for them leaving the hospital car park for patients, staff and visitors.

[thommo2010]

There's the vagabonds car park to park in which is empty most of the time. I personally think there are to many disabled spaces there must be at least 30 or 40 of them and whenever I have been up only a small amount are used. Its good they have them but is that many needed?

[english zloty]

I think Wrighty has nailed it.

 

There is an overflow, rarely more than half full btw.

 

Finally, having followed an ambulance into A&E too many times, I can assure you picking up change for parking won't be in my priority list

[oldmanxfella]

Rhe car park at New Noble's is too small. If people who work in Douglas want a Park and Ride in that area let's see if we can provide one for them leaving the hospital car park for patients, staff and visitors.

A few people have stated that obvious point - the carpark is tiny. It's never going to cater for the needs of all those using the hospital as it was built too bloody small. How many staff are parking up there for a start before even one patient or visitor turns up? How will handing a contract out to 'manage' a carpark that's not fit for purpose make anyone's life any easier? It won't. It will just be the first step in charging everyone for using it.

Edited February 24, 2015 by oldmanxfella

[Monkey boy]

Someone has to pay for a hospital car park.

 

Why not the people who make use of it?

 

As for managing it that will be for someone to 'buy' the concession and operate the car park, probably paying a percentage of the profits back to the hospital.

 

It works well over here.

 

 

To add - in the case of most hospitals staff also pay to park. It's the accepted thing. After all a car belonging to a staff member us taking up just as much space as a visitor. Otherwise parking becomes a benefit in kind that should be taxable.

You've been living in England for too long.

[spook]

@ filo - the hospital is not a registered charity.

[spook]

@ Monkey boy ---- No, it simply shows how much the Island has to catch up. Benefits and costs are increasingly being targeted, it will increase after the coming General Election.

[finlo]

@ filo - the hospital is not a registered charity.

And there begs the question should the church ( some of the richest organisations in the world) be granted charitable status?

[manxy]

 

@ filo - the hospital is not a registered charity.

And there begs the question should the church ( some of the richest organisations in the world) be granted charitable status?

 

And should they charge for car parking whilst visiting a cemetery or service?

[finlo]

 

 

@ filo - the hospital is not a registered charity.

 

And there begs the question should the church ( some of the richest organisations in the world) be granted charitable status?

And should they charge for car parking whilst visiting a cemetery or service?

 

Err no.

[oldmanxfella]

Don't give them ideas

 

£5 for the first half hour in the cemetery per hearse

£10 for the first 10 mins at the civic amenity site

£5 an hour to park to take your kids to a park

A toll of £1 per roundabout used

 

Just think of all the civil servants we could employ to 'manage' all that new 'revenue'

[spook]

There are a great many churches where people have to feed a parking meter.

 

But the issue isn't the church, it's hospital car parking. Hospital car parks cost money. The cost of the land, the cost of paving them, the care and maintenance of them- why should people who use them NOT pay?