There are 14 places in the hospital campus, where cars are parked. During a walk yesterday, i counted, one hundred and fifty cars belonging the staff of the hospital parked in designated and undesignated areas.
The road leading to the college building in this photos used to be free of cars earlier. Now even this place looks congested and rather risky for access during an emergency!
At CMC Vellore the parking became a challenge that two multistories automatic parking bays, away form the hospital site, are now in full use!
Why parking is an issue in public places!
Keeping access to exit in an emergency is a need during an emergency. About five thousand people are in the campus at one time!
A hospital is a green zone! Now the passage within the hospital space is provided by electric vehicles in some hospitals which make sense to keep the hospital air less contaminated by carbon monoxide and sulphur particles!
I filled petrol yesterday and realised that it was the highest I paid since I started using a car thirty five years ago! The petrol price would not be a deterrent for owning cars! But better public transport might make us use them instead of our cars! In this state of Kerala for a week now the government owned public transport service has reduced its services as there is no diesel in their fuel stations!
We move from one challenge to another!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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