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Originally Posted by NBNYer
It's not like the province hasn't tried to get it built.
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Not too enthusiastically though, and not recently.
About 20 years ago, there was a chance of a parking structure on the current visitors lot across MacBeath from the main entrance to the hospital, but disgruntled homeowners in the neighbourhood put the kibosh to this.
This was the last serious attempt at addressing the parking issue.
More recently, underground parking was added to the basement of the Ambulatory Care Centre (although it was a real fight to get the government of the day to approve it), and just this year, a new physicians lot was created in front of the ACC, but this is only really replacement parking for the spaces lost when the new Maternal/Newborn and cardiac wings of the hospital are built in the next few years.
Before the Sheldon Rubin Cancer Clinic was built, the Friends of the Moncton Hospital Foundation had an ambitious plan to increase the size of the Professional Arts Building, including space for the new cancer clinic
and a large enclosed parking structure, but the government of the day would have nothing to do with this proposal. This was really sad. This
would have been the solution to the parking woes at the hospital...........
