Of No Conceivable Interest To Anyone Who Doesn't Live In Oldham

[poliphilo]

Two 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.

Comments

[raakone.livejournal.com]

Where abouts is Oldham again?

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.

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

Not enough hospital parking is, I believe, a ubiquitous problem. Certainly that was my experience in Lancaster last year; that's a mixed campus of old and newly-built sites. (Or, to put it another way: planners want people to use public transport, but then fail to provide, or to convince them that there is, adequate public transport).

ugh they sound like they need help

[faunhaert.livejournal.com]

it sounds like a time for this

"hail Squat full of grace,
help me find a parking place!
i need it ---
here at this time---
thank you... "

it helps to ask her before you get there
it takes a bit of time for an etherial being
to nudge folks to make them move their cars
and make room for yours.

but she has provided
a myriad of modern miracles .
her original realm was helping with pregnancy
but she seems to not have a problem
moving people around...

Squat is very versatile.
she's found us housing places, eating
or hotel places too. she found us a hotel room
for $100 less than the one we expected last time.

it always helps to remember to thank her,
then she doesn't for get you
even if you don't remember her till
you enter the drive... grin

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Live free or die! C'mon Rochdale!

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Wheelchair users always get a hard time from the supposed health service providers. Strange that...