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nightbird
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/07/2007 : 22:43:10
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No Land left
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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Posted - 29/07/2007 : 23:39:41
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Nightbird,I too have wondered a long while about this question. After all, they put people in multi-storey flats, why not car parks?
Our hospital - like everywhere else, has mega parking problems, and they`ve always gone for short-term solutions. Temporary leasing of neighbouring land for parking, impractical bussing schemes, temporary car parking on bits of demolition sites that then get built on again, as the place gets bigger and bigger. Land owned or acquirable by the hospital trust is limited by it`s neighbours, and the cost of putting up a multi-storey isn`t going to do anything but increase, so it should be done sooner rather than later....and I`ve been ranting about this for the last 15 years, and watching the problem get more acute, watching each short-term solution - each not without some cost - fall through, to be replaced by some other scheme...
I think that local councils, like hospital management trusts, are short-term planners, thinking of their record and the duration of their service. |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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nightbird
Calaspia
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 Posted - 30/07/2007 : 03:08:39
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The Sussex County Hospital is a good example by the shear nature of being a hospital people are going to come by car from all over Sussex.
Even Hospital staff commute into Brighton from afar, no thought was given to parking for staff, patients, or visitors in its planning.
Now hospital services are being concentrate to just a few and the rest closed, patients and staff will be travelling longer and further.
All major developments in the city must include parking facilities underground or above, or this city will die a slow death.... |
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Daveb
Discworld
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/08/2007 : 17:09:36
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 12/08/2007 : 09:47:12
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Here is a view from Los Angeles
"Check it out: to go from Beverly and Virgil to Fountain and Virgil sans car takes:
15 min. by bike (stopping at 7-11 and browsing the magazines and getting a hot dog.)
2 hours plus by bus. (Usually I just give up waiting for a bus or taxi and just hoof it.)
My point is that the MTA is totally unreliable. It has also taken me (literally) several hours to go by bus from Echo Park to Silver Lake/ East Hollywood. And on a Saturday afternoon it took more than 3 hours to travel from Sunset and Vine to Sunset and Virgil, not because traffic was so bad but because the buses just don't run. Unacceptable. I'm convinced that the best way to get around Los Angeles is by car. If you cannot afford a car, by all means get a bike. Riding the bus is simply not an option, and at 5 bucks a day, it's certainly no bargain either" |
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Parking in Brighton
