More and more construction around the Hospital these days. It’s tough to get from one side to the other, and the parking lots that have been devoured or blocked off have added a hint of desperation to the normal morning commute. I’m lucky. My Wife can drop me off in the morning and take the car away to the law school, where the parking is much more abundant. I’m sure when construction begins on the new annex they’ve got planned, our situations will reverse.
Either that, or there’ll be no parking at either place.
As it stands, the big central parking lot near the site of the old Clinical Faculty Office Building has been isolated with a series of fences and the exit doors near it have been set up as emergency exit only. People who need to get from one side of the medical campus to the other have been routed through buildings instead of being able to cut across outdoors… Which, given that temperatures have occasionally dropped into single digit territory, is less of a hardship than it might seem.
On the other hand, they’re closing part of Ann Street down to one way until the end of March to install air conditioning equipment on the new Biomedical Science Research Building. That’s not just one of the main roads in the area, it’s also an entrance to one of the bigger parking structures on the medical campus. They’re going to have two way traffic for three hours in the mornings, with “Traffic Control Personnel” assisting with the backups, but it’s not going to be pretty. I’m just glad I’m not in Traffic Control… Spending 6am to 9am directing angry commuters in the frozen pre-dawn darkness is not my idea of a good time.