Comment on The European mind can't comprehend

• Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In the UK it would cost about the same, but that would be because he went by car and needed to pay for parking, parking charges at hospitals are getting ridiculous

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  • mdwhite999@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not in Scotland. Parking fees were scrapped at hospitals starting in 2008

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  • teuniac_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The provision of parking is expensive, so it used to be subsidized significantly. Many people go to the hospital by public transport. It wouldn’t be fair to them that there’d be less money available for healthcare services because the NHS is subsidizing parking.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The provision of parking is expensive

      No. It’s practically free. The maintenance is just some white lines every few years.

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      • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There’s an opportunity cost associated with using land for parking, particularly in dense urban areas.

        In many cases a parking spot uses more space than the person who parked there uses to do their job (if they work in a cubicle for example). But they also need to be able to park not just at their job, but at their home, at the store, at their doctor’s office, etc. In the US there can be as many as 8 parking spaces per car, which collectively take up one third of the urban area.

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Car storage costs in not built hospital wing, not built homes and not built public spaces.

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