briantrumpet
Timewaster
Not breaking news, not non-political banter, not stuff that has its own thread.
Anyway, here's one that always winds me up, proper lefties saying that hospital car parking should be free for staff (and patients).
No, make public transport better, encourage cycling and walking where feasible, and save the parking spaces for those for whom there is no other practicable option (shifts outside of public transport hours, disabled people, etc.). Scotland is sometimes cited ("Oh it's free in Scotland!"), at which point Scottish people point out the bleedin' obvious that the car parks are always rammed with no 'churn', because people who could have come by other means just use the benefit of free parking, in effect subsidised as a benefit by the hospital. In another life, that was my experience when I worked at Exeter College: free staff car parks, rammed from 8am till 5pm. When they introduced charging, there was almost outright revolt, but in no time they'd just got used to it and made alternative arrangements.
Anyway, here's one that always winds me up, proper lefties saying that hospital car parking should be free for staff (and patients).
No, make public transport better, encourage cycling and walking where feasible, and save the parking spaces for those for whom there is no other practicable option (shifts outside of public transport hours, disabled people, etc.). Scotland is sometimes cited ("Oh it's free in Scotland!"), at which point Scottish people point out the bleedin' obvious that the car parks are always rammed with no 'churn', because people who could have come by other means just use the benefit of free parking, in effect subsidised as a benefit by the hospital. In another life, that was my experience when I worked at Exeter College: free staff car parks, rammed from 8am till 5pm. When they introduced charging, there was almost outright revolt, but in no time they'd just got used to it and made alternative arrangements.
