Things That Should Be Free

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  1. Gordon Owen

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    As someone who lives on a side street near the hospital (and two schools) I definitely agree that hospital parking should be provided for staff.
    Absolute nightmare trying to get parked anywhere near my own house.
     
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    Mine just plugs into the cigarette lighter. It’s not calibrated correctly but now I know what PSI is equivalent on there to what it really is in my tyres then it’s fine and I just fill them to that amount. You don’t need to keep it charged as it doesn’t hold a charge, you just use it plugged in.
     
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    Hospital parking.

    Yes, staff should have free parking. Goes without saying.

    Now some rants.

    The traffic around Barnsley hospital mid-afternoon is so bad, something needs to be done. and quickly. These queues can almost reach town.

    If only we have land somewhere, say a car park, that, say the council may own 50% of (even if they didn't it could still be done) that is only really used on one in every two Saturday's, that's not far from town, where you could run a bus link to the front door of the hospital. That could work. Couldn't it?

    The cost of the parking could be cheaper than the hospital parking now, pay for the bus, give the council a bit of money and the other shareholder of the land could also earn from it.

    If only there was such land/car park available.
     
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    The funny thing is I’m pretty sure Weston Park hospital run a bus from there!
     
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    Yes - I remember the publicity when it was launched.
     
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    I live 75 yards from a hospital, that had a huge carpark, the other side of the coin is that staff can park for £20 per month ( for lower paid staff), unfortunately a lot choose not to, resulting in parking on the main road where a good number were scraped or had door mirrors knocked off, and packed residential roads around the hospital but a half empty car park. That gave the Trust the opportunity to sell a good area of car park space to a developer for building land. My view is that staff should be able to park FOC, but the second best option is cheap... they had the opportunity to park for less than £1 per day and not enough would.
     
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    You can get either cigarette socket in car. Or Charge via usb. (The one I have the charge lasts ages and shows battery life left) Digital display. Put in required pressure. When attached to valve live. pressure comes up tyres are at. press trigger and it knocks off once desired pressure is reached it knocks off. Shuts down digital display after a few secs if not in use.
    If tyres are all very low I'd recommend using at intervals as it may overheat.But general top ups fine.
     
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    I've had a few of the ultra cheap ebay pumps, they didn't last long so I spent about £50 on a Ring one from Halfords...it's excellent.
     
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    Sounds good. Where did you get it?
     
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    The one's I've got (mine and my wife's car) both have pre-set functions where you tell it what pressure to charge to and it cuts out when this is reached. You can set it and wait for it to cut-out without having to monitor it.

    As JamDrop says, they run off the 12V socket in the car.
     
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    we are talking barnsley here
    its Far too easy to apply common sense for this to happen

    Mind you I guess it comes down to operational costs and maybe its too expensive to call

    Especially with the cut backs Barnsley hospital is facing

    Apparently it's bad, I saw a sign on the main door saying
    ''Guard Dogs '' now operating in this area
    I thought chuff me...must be a shortage of Doctors
     
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    Must have a long cable then to stretch outside to the corners of the vehicle?
     
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