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Originally Posted by Aylmer
I dunno - not everyone goes to the hospital with a fractured skull or the plague. Often, if you're not taking an ambulance, it's much more mundane: a follow-up visit, getting a prescription, visiting someone... these are all trips which can be done by transit and in many cases will arguably be more convenient than driving. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be parking - there definitively should be for a lot of the reasons you enumerated - but we should be looking to examples of small-footprint urban hospitals like in Montreal instead of trying to fit a sprawling, suburban hospital campus in Ottawa's central area.
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I don't disagree. I've taken the bus to the hospital for tests (it's cheaper thank parking). I'm just saying the hospital-parking lobby is very strong and has lots of media and government support, so I don't blame the hospital for wanting to build lots of parking, although I agree it should be in garage-format rather than on the surface.
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