Saturday, 14 September 2024

hospital parking

hospital nurses want free parking at work. A letter to the paper points out that this would be "us", taxpayers paying for an individual benefit. This misses the point.
A nurse must work at the hospital. There is no work from home option.
A nurse works varying shifts over the full 24 hour day. Public transport is not feasible (and possibly dangerous).
Hospital parking is often provided by private enterprise. Public or private, the cost of parking is variable and will increase.
Every hour of work increases the cost of parking.
A nurse is not able to walk off the ward to "feed the meter".

Nurses are employed to provide a service, health, to the public. We want the service, we -- the taxpayers -- must pay for it.



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