SIR - I am writing to express my disgust at the lack of adequate parking at the new Royal Hospital in Worcester.
We queued from Newtown Road all around the hospital until eventually we parked in a small space. This took half-an-hour. All the disabled bays were occupied. I then had to wheel my 86-year-old mum from the bottom of the car park up to the main building.
Luckily, I am a fit pensioner, so I could accomplish this. What do frail carers do when there are so few parking spaces, no vacant disabled spaces and no spaces left, even on double yellow lines!
A multi-storey car park should be built on the land adjacent to the hospital. Money could be borrowed to build it and then paid back from the car parking charges that are collected.
Once a multi-storey car park was built, the ground level car park could also be turned into a multi-storey car park, perhaps designated for disabled users or mums with small children. Surely in the age of the car this should have been included in the original plans?
MRS PATRICIA COLLETT
Clifton-upon-Teme.
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