$47M is over $20,000 per employee

Hypothetically: What if they gave each employee $5000 but then charged each employee $200/month to park on site, or the employees could park for free or nominal cost at a more distant lot served by a shuttle?

The congestion going to and from the hospital is already insane. Hartford needs more modern, thoughtful transportation solutions.

Since creating that username, I escaped back to yankeeland!

I spent 20 years all over the old north state. Can't say I miss it at all!

The pizza isn’t even great at CJ’s, the grinders are better

They are so low iq

The commute to West Hartford from Milford will be atrocious. It'll be better to live off of the I-84 West of Waterbury area for them. Milford is not ideal.

At this point if you are unaware of this fact your not attached to reality.

Hospitals don't contribute to the tax base.

Maybe it is time for those in the community of Hartford to step up and take responsibility for their fellow community members who have destroyed the city.

Right, I went to med school at UConn so I recall the parking and traffic situation well. In fact I rode my bike to my rotations at Hartford Hospital most of the time because traffic was so frustrating, and winding up and down 5-6 floors of parking garage was a totally awful experience especially at rush hour.

I think instead of spending this enormous sum of money on parking, they should invest a MUCH small amount of money and effort into a more cohesive modern parking/transportation policy. This should mean appropriately pricing parking for employees and using market techniques to ensure that there is always parking available for families. They can aggressively price employee parking while promoting carpooling and transit use, especially since many people in healthcare have shifts that start at 7 AM and end at 7 PM. They can operate shuttles from the innumerable parking lots 1-2 miles away in the downtown core, again with a major financial kickback to the employees. There's a LOT of opportunity to encourage transit and carpooling with employees -- they have 2,000ish employees and $47,000,000 divided by 2,000 is over $20,000 per employee. There are so many things they can do to thoughtfully utilize the parking that already exists in the city, and save millions of dollars for the true mission of the hospital.

I'm not saying they should spend $0 on parking. But come on. They're spending $280 million on the hospital tower and $47 million on parking. That ratio seems way, way off. The hospital exists to serve people, not cars.

If you're in West Hartford it's best to take I-84 West into I-684 into White Plains, NY, and shoot down I-87, or I-287. It'll be around 2-3 hours each way.

Or take I-84 to Route 7 South, and catch I-95 in Norwalk, and then straight into NY, or catch the Train in Stamford, or Norwalk.

The best town to live in is Redding, Ridgefield, or New Milford, worst case Southbury.

How about the hospital just pulls out and moves some place else. Problem solved and your taxes will sky rocket. Time for the people living in Hartford to take some responsibility for how their peers are destroying the city. Not taking away what little resources exist to help the tax base.

Makes sense I guess that people around complained but it’s kind of one of those things where “what did you think was gonna happen buying a house next to a stadium?!” I have more understanding if they were there before the venue was built I guess.

At least to me it doesn’t seem like there any houses immediately next door and it’s way off from the street so who knows.

Ever parked there it's a nightmare. What do you expect people to do drop little timmy off on crutches and tell them to wait there while mom/dad finds parking and walks back? Here is an idea let's put immunocompromised timmy on the bus for an hour.

As someone who worked in HH until 2017, there isn’t enough parking right near the hospital to support the massive amount of staff such a huge complex requires, as well as patients/visitors. Several times when I would go into the hospital as a civilian to visit someone, I would have to park maybe 9-10 blocks away. That’s fine for me, but many people can’t do that (patients/people coming in for treatment) or don’t feel safe walking 10 blocks through Hartford at night. And those times weren’t even peak hours.

The whole premise of your argument is wrong. I can’t tell you how many patients I had complained that they either had to sit and wait for someone to leave and hope they got to the spot first or had to walk a half mile or more.

This is just people voting on their local favorites... How many people can say that they've have Willimantic pizza?

neighbors complained about noise levels. The Police played there in 2007 i think that was the last show.

it’s a good stadium really not a bad seat in the house ample parking pretty easy in and out just needs some upkeep which i believe is in process of securing funding.

Lol.. did he break the E off?

1. Bringing an unwell or injured child to the doctor/hospital is hard enough. Parking should not be a hassle for families.
2. Visiting a child in the hospital is hard enough. If anything can be done to make it easier for families to be together during a child’s illness, let’s do that.
3. Nurses and hospital staff just worked through the pandemic, and someone wants to take away their free parking? Are you kidding me? Let’s get them to work on time without adding unnecessary stress. They’re caring for sick kids, jeez.
4. Other than Hartford Hospital and CCMC, no one is building anything in that neighborhood. Some of the buildings on/near that campus are super old and shabby—as hospitals increasingly merge into larger networks, let’s not incentivize them to move services to their suburban locations to avoid the cost of upkeep/rehabbing the older buildings.
5. Article didn’t seem to say anything about how much parking would cost for patients/families. Making families pay $$$ just to visit their loved ones in the hospital sucks. Anyone who has had a long-term illness in the family and a pile of hospital parking receipts in the console of their car knows what I’m talking about. It’s a regressive tax on the sick.

For me, yes. We stop there on the way to VT.

Just watched that movie this past weekend for the first time in maybe 15 years.It will always hold up.. Totally forgot about that line

You can both build a new parking garage and advocate for better public transportation.

If there was a commuter rail line that ran east of the river to Vernon, I'd absolutely take that over commuting.

Home Depot in Hamden

You can park behind the Walgreens near the save-a-lot on dixwell ave. Alternatively you can park in the back of the lot at home Depot on Dixwell and access it there.

They did host bigger concerts there for a number of years, I saw Springsteen and Rolling Stones there at two different shows circa 2005 or so. No idea why they stopped because now I don’t think it gets used much outside of a rare event during football offseason, seems like it would be a boon to local economy to get people in for concerts.