Bringing an unwell or injured child to the doctor/hospital is hard enough. Parking should not be a hassle for families.
Visiting a child in the hospital is hard enough. If anything can be done to make it easier for families to be together during a child’s illness, let’s do that.
Nurses and hospital staff just worked through the pandemic, and someone wants to take away their free parking? Are you kidding me? Let’s get them to work on time without adding unnecessary stress. They’re caring for sick kids, jeez.
Other than Hartford Hospital and CCMC, no one is building anything in that neighborhood. Some of the buildings on/near that campus are super old and shabby—as hospitals increasingly merge into larger networks, let’s not incentivize them to move services to their suburban locations to avoid the cost of upkeep/rehabbing the older buildings.
Article didn’t seem to say anything about how much parking would cost for patients/families. Making families pay $$$ just to visit their loved ones in the hospital sucks. Anyone who has had a long-term illness in the family and a pile of hospital parking receipts in the console of their car knows what I’m talking about. It’s a regressive tax on the sick.
Ducksilver t1_je1b98n wrote
Reply to Connecticut Children's wants to spend $47 million on a parking garage in a city awash with parking by bomgd3