Work has wrapped on the second of two projects to create more parking at the University Hospital of Northern B.C.
There are about 54 new parking spaces in the front visitor's lot after about $850,000 worth of work that began in June. The Fraser-Fort George Regional Hospital District picked up $340,000 of the cost.
According to Northern Health, there are approximately 800 daily visitors to the front lot, in addition to the 600 hospital staff who park on site every day.
"We know people coming to the hospital to receive care or visit are already full of thoughts and considerations, finding a parking stall is something we wanted to help them with," said Northern Health chief operating officer Michael McMillan. The changes made at UHNBC will definitely help relieve this stress."
Earlier in the year, work was completed on adding 55 more stalls where the old Nechako Building was located on Alward Street. Additional parking was also made available on Edmonton Street when the road was widened and angle parking created on both sides of the street. Angle parking was also introduced to the hospital's front visitor's lot to create more spaces.
