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Pay parking at hospitals criticized Fraser Health board chair says get used to it For everyone else, Matty predicts hospiBy Jeff Nagel tal pay parking is here to stay. Fraser Health is defending its policy of “Having to pay for parking is something charging for pay parking at most of the that people need to get their head around,” region’s hospitals to generate additional she said. revenue. “I don’t want to pay for parking. But The policy – long denounced by hospiparking seems to be becoming a premium tal users as a heartless cash grab – came under fire again at last month’s meeting of here in B.C., especially the Lower MainFraser’s board of directors in South Surrey. land. And I think we are all getting used to Langley Township resident Harold Nagy that fact.” Part of the rationale for pay parking is demanded to know why Delta and Mission it spurs stall rotation, so some spaces are don’t have “this B.S. about pay parking” available when patients and visitors need while patients and visitors must pay at them and aren’t hogged all day by users other hospitals. from surrounding businesses. Delta and Mission are the only two muParking costs $3.50 an hour at most nicipalities that have bylaws that prohibit hospitals in the Fraser region, although pay parking at hospitals. that starts at $4.25 at “They should all be free,” Burnaby, Royal ColumbiNagy said, adding the “It’s a place of necessity an and Surrey Memorial charges make some patients worry they’ll run out when you go there. It’s not hospitals, while hourly rates are lower in the eastof time and be fined. “It’s a place of necessity when you like going out for supper.” ern Fraser Valley – $2.50 in Abbotsford, $1.75 in go there. It’s not like going Harold Nagy Chilliwack and free in out for supper.” Hope. About a third of the $8 White Rock Mayor million in money raised Wayne Baldwin said he can’t recall his from pay parking goes to maintain the council ever being asked to outlaw pay lots and the rest goes into the authority’s parking at Peace Arch Hospital. budget for patient care. But he suggested Delta Hospital is a spe“Personally, I wish it could be consiscial ca se because of its location with an tent,” Fraser Health board chair Karen abundance of other free parking nearby. Matty told Black Press. “But we do not “Diff erent situations call for different write bylaws in the various communities.” tactics,” Baldwin said. “If (Delta) put in The Canadian Medical Association Jourpay parking probably people would simply nal once likened pay parking to an unfair park along the roads up to it or around city user fee that can add stress for patients hall. So it doesn’t make a lot of sense.” and disrupt their care if they have to go Baldwin also noted some pay parking out and feed a meter. lots at Peace Arch Hospital are actually Fraser provides free parking passes for owned and operated by the Peace Arch renal dialysis patients and grants other Hospital Foundation, with all proceeds financial hardship parking permits on a going directly to local hospital improvecase-by-case basis. ments, not into Fraser’s budget.
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