By Jed Crawford, July 16, 2012
The proposed Cathedral Hill Hospital on Geary and Van Ness
will REDUCE TRAFFIC in four ways.
1) Geary and Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
2) CPMC’s Employee Public Transportation Use and Raising Standard
for Large Employers
3) Eliminate Double Parking with large Drive-in area for Cathedral
Hill Hospital
4) The Mayor’s Office Doing Its Part in Controlling
Everything
1) Geary and Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
The Geary and Van Ness BRT of the Mayor’s Office is a study to
increase ridership and the speed it takes to get folks from the beach going
towards downtown. The BRTs are in part inspired by CPMC health
care project.
2) CPMC’s Employee Public Transportation Use and Raising Standard
for Large Employers
CPMC is raising the standard in reducing single car drivers
and encouraging employee to use public transportation.
More people using MUNI and BART increases revenues and benefit
the entire transportation system.
3) Eliminate Double Parking with large Drive-in area for Cathedral
Hill Hospital
Kaiser Permanente on Geary and Divisadero Street is a
perfect example of why there should be no alarms about traffic. Even with the double parking by visitors, taxis,
MUNI and a left turn you still don’t see major problems, many drivers just zip
through.
Cathedral Hill Hospital solves the problem of double parking by allowing visitors and patients to drive into the hospital and even through to another street.
There will also be an underground tunnel that connects the
hospital to a medial office across the street which lessons the employee impact
on cross-walks.
4) The Mayor’s Office Doing Its Part in Controlling
Everything
There will be less traffic by the time the new hospital opens
and will continue to decrease. Some
aspects are dependent on the Mayor’s Office of Economic & Workforce
Development who is controlling everything regarding CPMC, the BRTs, the negotiating, contracting,
oversight and millions of dollars for community benefit.
