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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Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 1 week agoIn 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
teuniac_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The provision of parking is expensive
No. It’s practically free. The maintenance is just some white lines every few years.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week 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.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There’s an opportunity cost associated with using land for parking
That’s not a cost of provision. Who’s to say that the medical benefit of many friends or relatives visiting is worth less than a house. Their is an opportunity cost of not having parking.
uis@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Car storage costs in not built hospital wing, not built homes and not built public spaces.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not built means no costs.
mdwhite999@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Not in Scotland. Parking fees were scrapped at hospitals starting in 2008