Originally Posted by
ccfc_is_my_life
Work from home, would love to pay for parking permit. When worked at client sites, parked where appropriate - and legally. if that meant car park, fine.
Fact is, there's higher demand than there is parking space. There are things people can do - on same shift? Car share. That would alleviate if not solve some of the problems. There's no magic way of wishing massive expanses of land to emerge to build more car parking spaces on.
People can whine, pout about it but those in court were those who cynically and deliberately took the piss for a very, very long time and are now complaining because they were found to be in the wrong. The reality is tickets were written off. The fact is reduced penalties if paid quickly were put in. Parking is subsidised - and there's the moral issue that visitors, patients who are in a worse position pay more as a result. People took the piss and now want sympathy for doing so - any other sector and your view would be completely different.
As I understand it, the fees end in the next year or so in which case parking issues won't suddenly be resolved. People will flood there because they don't have to pay and even more chaos will ensue. Parking on double yellows which regularly happens there will attract tickets...
If you're seriously telling me NHS front line staff are failing to give adequate care due to thinking about the possibility of parking tickets... dear god...
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