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poliphiloTwo grouses about the Royal Oldham Hospital
1. There's not enough parking space. You turn up at a busy time and you can drive round and round for ages looking for somewhere to dump the car. People abandon their vehicles on double yellow lines, on pavements, wherever.
2. There's very poor provision for wheelchair users. To give just one example: if you come in at the entrance on Broadway, you find a gate has been built across the pavement, forcing wheelchair users into the road. Some internal roads (the hospital is as big as a town centre) have no pavements at all- and where they exist there are too few drop down points.
Whoever designed the hospital and its grounds just wasn't seeing the bigger picture.
1. There's not enough parking space. You turn up at a busy time and you can drive round and round for ages looking for somewhere to dump the car. People abandon their vehicles on double yellow lines, on pavements, wherever.
2. There's very poor provision for wheelchair users. To give just one example: if you come in at the entrance on Broadway, you find a gate has been built across the pavement, forcing wheelchair users into the road. Some internal roads (the hospital is as big as a town centre) have no pavements at all- and where they exist there are too few drop down points.
Whoever designed the hospital and its grounds just wasn't seeing the bigger picture.
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Date: 2012-03-03 02:47 pm (UTC)Sounds like the place is running on grandfather clauses. At least, I hope that's what it is. A hospital with insufficient parking space? I sincerely hope it's a relic from an earlier time...but still, they should find some way to expand their parking. Are the "double yellow lines" on the hospital grounds treated the same as "city" yellow lines? Do plenty of people get ticketed there?
There was the hospital in Amersham (I have family that lives a relatively short distance away) that had a different issue. It had one structure that was basically built during World War II, and intended to be temporary, because, well, the need for hospital services generally rockets up during wars. Except that this "temporary" place lasted until a few years ago. And because it wasn't intended to be permanent, it wasn't exactly the best place to be in. And getting a "permanent" replacement took quite some time.
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Date: 2012-03-03 04:47 pm (UTC)The hospital has occupied the same site since the 19th century. The buildings are a mixture of old, recent and new.
I don't know about ticketing. I haven't seen wardens going round, but I'm sure they exist.