Editor, The News:
Re: Frustrated at hospital parking (Letters, Feb. 12).
I laud Jerry Wood for speaking out about the unconscionable parking situations at all hospitals and every medical building except the B.C. Cancer Agency.
I find it unacceptable that parking companies such as Impark take advantage of people at medical facilities who are in no position to know how long they’ll be.
As he pointed out, ER visits can be hours long and even outpatient appointments often take considerably longer than expected. Plus, if you are alone with no one to go out and feed the meter, you are at the company’s mercy.
How difficult would it be to have the pay-as-you-leave machines at the exit as they do at the B.C. Cancer Agency downtown, instead of requiring us to pay upon entering?
It is pure greed on the company’s part. What will it take to get it changed?
It is unconscionable to take advantage of the ill and infirm and needs to be rectified.
Catherine A. Bell
Maple Ridge