Hospital pay parking to end

I think you will find that Hospitals only have Intranets and that if there is internet available – its only for a select few.

Can you imagine – TCH patient dead – Nurses say they only left for a minute to check their post on RiotACT 🙂

Interesting how many wives of riotact readers work at Canberra’s hospitals. So why aren’t the wives posting themselves?

Oh yeah, health workers don’t get a lot of spare time to cruise the net during work hours.

Thank you mr stanhope for wasting even more of my hard earned tax dollars.

May you commision a magnificent bronze statue of parking inspectors next.

hard to get a park for the afternoon shift as the morning shift cars are still there.

That’s easy to fix. Perform the shift hand-off in the carpark, as you swap car spaces 🙂

Yes, there is staff parking at the hospitals. Unfortunately it’s the visitors/patients that are stuffed around by paid parking, and especially pre-paid voucher parking. mrswhorebags works in ED at Woden and has told me that plenty of times she’s called people in from the waiting room but they’re out feeding coins into a meter. Or the constant queries about “when am I going to be seen – I’ve only got an hour left on the voucher” etc etc. It’s not good when you ask a sick child “where’s your mum/dad?” “they’re out paying for the car” etc etc.

does that mean they can stop fining staff at Calvary for having expired parking passes ?? That idea was a real morale booster…..go TEAM STANHOPE !!

It was up the staff to remember when their pass expired. Not easy when you work permanent nights and you have to drag yourself in during daylight hours to renew it. Not an automatic process….

Jeez a ray of common sense!!!!!!!

One of the benefits of pay parking at Calvary hospital was that evening staff were always able to find a car park. I guess the phone calls from angry evening staff will start again on Monday.

Staff at TCH have their own designated parking areas, but as MrsM (who works there) informs me, it’s often quite hard to get a park for the afternoon shift as the morning shift cars are still there. So the new multistorey carpark looks like a good idea.

So who are they going to hammer now to make up for the lost revenue that they’ve been earning through this little money spinner?

the good ‘ol 20-20 hindsight…
Pity about all the hard-earneds spent installing what everyone said would be a dumb idea in the first place – if only Katy had bothered to listen…

Election’s not due ’til late next year – they certainly could have cut it a lot finer…maybe added some kind of parking “fairness test” 6 months out from the election 😛
I agree though, this was a stupid idea from start to finish – credit to them for admitting the mistake, but it shouldn’t have been made in the first place.

Put in boom gates, legitimate hospital users (staff, patients, visitors) get tickets validated and park for nothing.

As I understand it – according to Mrs Danman – who actually works at TCH in Woden – staff have had their own multi storey free (swipe card boom gate access) carpark for quite some time.

I can confirm this 1st hand

The visitor parking has always been semi free on weekends as there are usualy no parking inspectors and I would just play carpark lotto -never been fined in 3 years.

It seems the carpark management has been outsourced to a company called EziPark, which is a subsidiary of mega-developer Hindmarsh.

Just got an email through from ACT Health at 9.27am to tell me the same. Here is the link for more info. It will be interesting to see if staff still find it easy to get a park, now we are competing with visitors. No news of a multi-storey for Calvary I guess! Brings up the question of total inequality of health care services for the northside as compared to the southside.

http://www.health.act.gov.au/c/health?a=sp&pid=1179970399

About time. Worst. Idea. Ever.

Put in boom gates, legitimate hospital users (staff, patients, visitors) get tickets validated and park for nothing.

And wasn’t it nice of Jon to steal Katy’s thunder.