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GWH staff Park and Ride mothballed after poor take-up

2:21pm Tuesday 5th January 2010 in News

GWH staff Park and Ride mothballed after poor take-up GWH staff Park and Ride mothballed after poor take-up

A FREE park and ride scheme for staff at Great Western Hospital has been mothballed after a lack of interest from its intended users.

The £30,000 scheme was designed to free up around 200 staff parking spaces a day so patients would find it easier to park.

But the Adver understands that just five people showed up to use the service when it launched yesterday - one being chief executive of Great Western Hospital NHS Trust Lyn Hill-Tout.

A consultation with staff is due to be set up to find a long-term solution to the increasing demand for car parking at the hospital site.

Great Western Hospital has yet to comment.

Comments(13)

Support_British_Manufacturing says...
2:39pm Tue 5 Jan 10

LOL

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Chowmai says...
2:44pm Tue 5 Jan 10

Did I read this right?
It was launched on Monday....and scrapped on Tuesday?
Please tell me that is a chronological/editor
ial error and not a very costly 24hr trial!

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silvergran says...
3:04pm Tue 5 Jan 10

How ridiculous - they haven't given it any time at all.

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Captain Sensible says...
3:04pm Tue 5 Jan 10

Well there's a surprise eh?!!! I bet they forgot to tell the staff concerned.....

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rimaste says...
3:15pm Tue 5 Jan 10

"A consultation with staff is due to be set up to find a long-term solution " - one would have thought that would've been a better idea BEFORE anything was implemented?

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Old Town says...
3:26pm Tue 5 Jan 10

Its not exactly rocket science is it ?
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BUILD MORE CAR PARK SPACES !
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There is so much land at the hospital - what is the problem with this simple idea ?

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ifuwantblood says...
3:34pm Tue 5 Jan 10

Old Town wrote:
Its not exactly rocket science is it ? . BUILD MORE CAR PARK SPACES ! . There is so much land at the hospital - what is the problem with this simple idea ?
Because the government won't allow it. Part of the overall policy of making life as difficult and expensive as possible for drivers under the pretext of being 'green'.

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mr_fix_it says...
3:35pm Tue 5 Jan 10

Here's a crazy idea... build some more parking spaces at the hospital to meet the demand.

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itsamess says...
4:10pm Tue 5 Jan 10

How ridiculous this was in the first place as most staff at the hospital are from all over Swindon and further and working a variety of shifts. If emergencies arise the staff will have to work over their hours and would end up stranded. Would you want to finish work late in the evening and have to use 3 or 4 buses to reach close enough to your home to walk the rest of the way in near darkness--thats if you can find buses still running. Good job Lyn Hill-Tout did not give up her personal space then--not that anyone else could have used it.

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rmc001 says...
4:33pm Tue 5 Jan 10

itsamess wrote:
How ridiculous this was in the first place as most staff at the hospital are from all over Swindon and further and working a variety of shifts. If emergencies arise the staff will have to work over their hours and would end up stranded. Would you want to finish work late in the evening and have to use 3 or 4 buses to reach close enough to your home to walk the rest of the way in near darkness--thats if you can find buses still running. Good job Lyn Hill-Tout did not give up her personal space then--not that anyone else could have used it.
Exactly, this was my argument when the same thing happened at the Children's hospital in Bristol, there's no way you could expect a nurse to finish in the early hours of a morning and take a bus. At least our hospital is on the outskirts of town with plenty of room to build more parking spaces, unlike the Bristol Children's hospital, for which they found necessary to build it right in the middle of the city with just a few parking spaces!

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dogchops says...
6:29pm Tue 5 Jan 10

Belive me it didn't even start.

Why?

Workers would not be paid travelling time.

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Fitzwilliam says...
1:34pm Wed 6 Jan 10

Ok, the staff were told that this 'park and ride' idea was not going ahead due to poor take up, the staff were advised of this before Xmas, so why did they run the service anyway and waste money??? As far as the staff were concerned the idea was scrapped! The fact that the service was only due to run for 4 days a week during school term time was a farce as was the fact that if you were delayed due to the bus being late or full and had to wait for the next one then you had to make up the hours after work, which would then make it difficult to get home as the last bus was due to be run at 6pm!
Why can't someone realise that the parking has become more of an issue due to the UWE students now being allowed to take up the staff spaces!

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mcgarvie says...
3:51pm Wed 6 Jan 10

Myself and another family member work full time at the hospital on different departments, and we were both shocked to see that the park and ride scheme has been scrapped... as neither of us have been informed that it had even started!! We both live 5 minutes away from Honda and would have been happy to use the system as I have spent over an hour trying to park on several occasions recently. Perhaps the reason the scheme failed is because the relevant staff were never consulted.

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