James Miller

 

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

 

Parking at Royal Free Hospital

If you were building a new hospital only an idiot would build it in the one of the most densely populated and expensive parts of London. But it’s there now and if you visit for longer than an hour, you must use public transport. After all the hospital is very close to the tube!

A few years ago, our granddaughter was born in the Royal London and because she had a serious condition, she was there for a couple of months. Most of the time we all visited using public transport, as it was so much more convenient.

It’s actually quite rich how people in London moan about hospital parking, when here in Suffolk we are fifteen miles from the nearest hospital and have no alternative but to use a car. Even then parking in Cambridge is bad and usually requires parking and then using a bus.

So it may have been unfortunate for the lady who complained, but as she said in the end she used a taxi.