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Originally Posted by zzptichka
Holy straw man, batman!
How does Tunney's location prevent you from driving to Hospital? You can drive all you want. But with Tunney's you have an alternative to take efficient LRT train if you don't drive or want to avoid paying $15 for 2 hours of parking there.
Also, as a driver, would you rather walk through 300m of wind-swept surface parking lot or park in a heated parking garage and take an elevator for a short walk to the entrance instead?
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Dinosaur tweet is good.
The province won't pay for parking as part of hospital construction, and the province also limits parking fees which limit the hospital's ability to find private sector partners, so to go to Tunney's the hospital will have insufficient parking or have to fund raise hundreds of millions of dollars for parking structures (one of the Citizen articles above had an estimate) and good luck finding a rich person or company that wants to make a big donation to put their name on a parking garage.
Tunney's is also much harder to access for most people. Parkdale (the main link to the Queensway) is one of the most consistently congested streets in the city. The parkway is hard to access from most directions (but great if you live in Quebec).
Nobody is being forced to take transit, but the hospital clients who want to drive (which I suggest is a large majority) will be worse off.
If the federal government want to pay for the parking and a better link between the Queensway and Parkway then I think people would come around to Tunney's.