I'm honored to be quoted and to have this blog links at Paul Barter's "Reinventing Parking" blog. Paul is an academic, living and teaching in Singapore, and has studied and researched urban issues, including parking throughout the far East. Paul comments in part:
Can you imagine a parking policy in which we do NOT expect hospitals to subsidize parking in general? Can you imagine not expecting universities or schools or park agencies or any building managers to do so? Under such a parking policy, we would expect both onsite and off-site parking to be run as a business with maximising revenue as the primary objective. This would be best done by professionals whose core business and mission is parking, not health.
Would this mean a lack of compassion for patients and their families? I don't see why.
Read all of his excellent post here.
JVH
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