00:00 How you doing sir? So you live on the estate just opposite Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
00:04 It gets quite busy on the car park there and I understand they tend to filter
00:09 through onto the estate over the road here? Yes, they do. It happens just all the time.
00:16 It's often not a problem but sometimes it is. When there's cars parked on both sides of the street
00:23 that can cause problems with bin men trying to reverse the car around the junction.
00:29 So we've got people that run businesses that need vans on the street as well.
00:33 It makes it difficult for them to just get to their house.
00:37 So that's an issue. We have tried putting cones out but they're often ignored.
00:43 Well, let's just take a look at... This is what's left of...
00:48 So what's happened to this fella then? So you put them out...
00:51 It's clearly been run over and I think it's been run over a few times.
00:54 But I think people drive up to it and then because it's quite small they get back in the car.
01:01 I'm assuming here. They get back in and then when they drive off they've forgotten it's there
01:06 and they drive over it. So I don't think it's just a malicious act of like, you know,
01:11 not interested in what you guys want.
01:15 So what would you like to see? I know New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton,
01:19 they've kind of extended their car parking by building a multi-storey.
01:23 Obviously there's a cost incurred but then there's a revenue to be made from it or residence permits.
01:28 Have you pondered the thought as to what you'd... a better way of working the system?
01:34 I think ultimately the hospital needs multi-storey parking or some kind of off-site parking or something.
01:40 I think we don't really have capacity on this estate because there's really only room for one car per household.
01:49 Anyone having more than one car has to park on the road and then they're competing with everyone else.
01:54 So I don't think we've really got the capacity to do anything meaningful.
01:58 But I think the hospital with its expansion, the amount of people working there,
02:04 the amount of patients and visitors, they need more capacity one way or another.
02:09 Realistically they need to invest in multi-storey parking. This is my opinion.
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