| WHAT?
Further steps are being taken to keep the Addenbrooke's Hospital
campus congestion-free and to ensure that there are adequate
parking spaces for those who really need them.
WHEN?
On Tuesday 3 January 2006 patient and visitor car parking
charges at Addenbrooke's will increase and some new tariff
bands are being introduced.
WHY?
Addenbrooke's is constantly seeking to improve the range of
cheaper, less stressful and faster travel choices available
for getting to the campus.
We are also improving and developing new facilities, such
as a new multi-storey car park for patients and visitors,
enhancing security and CCTV coverage, and implementing schemes
aimed at improving safety. These alternatives will help us
save spaces for people who really need them – the ill,
frail and elderly – or who are not able to use a car
to get to the campus.
The latest improvement has seen new information - maps of
the campus and locations of bus stops - being displayed in
the two Addenbrooke’s Shuttle buses which will help
visitors and patients to the campus. Improved passenger information
is currently on display at some of the bus shelters at the
campus with 'real time' electronic information to tell travellers
when the next bus is arriving. More will be installed in 2006.
In early January the bus stops around the hospital perimeter
road will be more obvious with new bus stop flags, and next
year work will be completed on a continuous pedestrian footpath
around the perimeter of Robinson Way, linking Long Road to
Hills Road, and the pedestrian and cycling infrastructure
at the Robinson Way/Long Road junction and at the front roundabout
will be improved.
The increases also mean that the hospital is more in line
with city parking charges, and will help to encourage long-stay
visitors to use alternative travel options to the campus.
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