With our campaign nearing the six year mark, it looks like we might be closer to achieving the much needed reform to our hospital pay parking problem than ever before. An election call in BC means the public discourse focuses
Hospital Pay Parking Returns – It’s Now Unofficially a Free-For-All
What a disaster. I figured the universally-hated, sick patient exploiting, profit driven scam that is hospital pay parking would make a return once the pandemic was downgraded to endemic. However what I didn’t see coming was the way our stressed-out,
Parking Revenues DROP For The First Time On Record
[DELTA] Hospital stay, why pay? This might explain the unexpected drop in total provincial revenue from the much maligned hospital pay parking scheme. The annual audited financials for BC’s five geographic-based health authorities reported an overall annual decrease of 4.5%
The Mess We’re Now In – Pay Parking & Pandemics
When our campaign first called on the provincial government and health authorities to reform hospital pay parking back in 2018, we laid out what a better system might look like. We also addressed the most obvious option to the current
2018-2019 Hospital Parking Lot Violation Statistics – Fraser & Vancouver Coastal Health
Press Release For February 4, 2020 —————————————————————————————————————————————— 2018-2019 Hospital Parking Lot Violation Statistics – Fraser & Coastal Health Three quarters of all hospital parking violation tickets go unpaid at Fraser Health. [DELTA] Hospital stay, why pay? Evidence from the latest
2018-2019 Hospital Parking Lot Violation Statistics – Interior Health
Press Release For January 21, 2020 —————————————————————————————————————————————— 2018-2019 Hospital Parking Lot Violation Statistics – Interior Health Another BC health authority reports high parking ticket payment delinquencies and cancellations. [DELTA] Hospital stay, why pay? Once again British Columbians are learning that
NDP Convention 2019 – Elimination of Parking Fees Passed UNANIMOUSLY
Perhaps our droning on about hospital pay parking in BC needing reform has finally sunk in. The November 23, 2019 NDP convention in Victoria placed a resolution on the hated public policy early in the schedule of voting. The unanimous
Quebec Takes The Lead In Hospital Parking Reform
We’ll call it a coincidence. While our website has run an informal poll since November 2018 asking visitors to vote on their preferred method of hospital parking management reform, the provincial government of Quebec chose the second most popular option
Campaign Update – June 2019
With a full year of advocacy work in the rear-view mirror, I can confidently say the push to reform hospital pay parking in British Columbia is showing clear signs of progress. Earlier today I met with the top civil servant
Campaign Update February 2019
It’s been a busy few weeks for the campaign and support is coming in from all sides. A couple weeks ago I issued a press release based on my Freedom Of Information request that came through last month. The interest