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Post by clarencebunsen on Jan 11, 2024 12:30:05 GMT -5
One of the problems right now is that construction of one of the primary parking ramps was held up by lawsuits from the "No Hospital Downtown" group. Brent Truett bought a house in the parking ramp footprint and filed a lawsuit against the eminent domain claim. Delayed that part of construction for about a year.
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Post by BHU on Jan 11, 2024 16:41:33 GMT -5
Same number of ER doctors, so what we are seeing is all of the people from 2 waiting rooms put into one larger waiting room. The placement was strictly a political decision. The biggest complaint I have heard from my daughter-in-law is when she has to travel between the parking lot and the hospital at night. She works for an agency and normally takes local assignments when she can get them. Better pay and no holidays unless she wants to work. (Generally a big bonus to get an RN willing to work on a holiday.) I keep hearing about the distance to the parking. Where exactly IS that lot located? That is not a neighborhood where a person would want to be walking at night, especially for a young woman. If they are going to depend on remote parking lots for the time being they need to provide shuttle vans that run every 15 minutes or so, around the clock, 7 days a week. Our VA hospital campus has outlying parking lots and there are shuttle vans running all day until after visiting hours, 7 days a week. You never have to wait for more than 5 or 10 minutes. During the night when the shuttle isn't running security will take you to your car. They should arm the employees of Wynn, especially the nurses with bear spray to protect them from the cretins who lurk downtown. |
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Jan 11, 2024 16:42:06 GMT -5
The parking lots are huge and filled to the brim with the brand new parking garage in the backdrop on course for opening day. Parking is anywhere from Lafayette St across from Utica National Insurance building down the street to close to St Josephs St Patrick's Church back up Columbia even on Oriskany St..   Take a left on Broadway and Lafayette is a lot more parking while garage is being built I guess because that huge lot is no finished just huge flood lights for night crew I guess. |
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Post by Clipper on Jan 11, 2024 23:55:12 GMT -5
At least they have valet parking for visitors during the day. I imagine that shuts down some time in the evening.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 12, 2024 0:00:36 GMT -5
I keep hearing about the distance to the parking. Where exactly IS that lot located? That is not a neighborhood where a person would want to be walking at night, especially for a young woman. If they are going to depend on remote parking lots for the time being they need to provide shuttle vans that run every 15 minutes or so, around the clock, 7 days a week. Our VA hospital campus has outlying parking lots and there are shuttle vans running all day until after visiting hours, 7 days a week. You never have to wait for more than 5 or 10 minutes. During the night when the shuttle isn't running security will take you to your car. They should arm the employees of Wynn, especially the nurses with bear spray to protect them from the cretins who lurk downtown. There is no place safe from acts of violence any more. When I went to visit Kathy in the hospital there was armed security at the main entrance during the day that waved a metal detector wand over everyone coming in. I have to think that they had received some sort of threat because it is not a usual thing. After 8pm everything was locked down and the only entrance was through the ER where there is also an armed security person with with a wand. There have been a lot of robberies and assaults lately around here so I have started carrying again when I go out at night. Random shootings and drug crap has been on the rise. Car break-ins and porch piracy is getting to be commonplace. One of our bowling friends took the classes and does plain clothes security during services at her church. Not too long ago she had her driveway alarm go off at about 2 am an confronted two thugs browsing around. She met them in her bathrobe with a Glock 9 mm and sent them packing. She said all she could see was butts and elbows hauling ass back down the road. If you live in the country around here in recent years it is common now for people to have a hand gun for protection of themselves and their property. Our next door neighbor is an RN. She works night shifts at times and carries a pink 38 revolver in a special purse that has an easily accessible pocket for the gun. This is definitely red neck country, lol. |
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Post by chris on Jan 12, 2024 11:53:34 GMT -5
At least they have valet parking for visitors during the day. I imagine that shuts down some time in the evening. How is Kathy doing? |
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Post by Clipper on Jan 12, 2024 12:07:39 GMT -5
Kathy is doing well. We are getting ready to take her to the hairdresser for a perm, and then out to an Irish Pub in Johnson City for fish and chips with friends.
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Post by BHU on Jan 12, 2024 13:13:07 GMT -5
They should arm the employees of Wynn, especially the nurses with bear spray to protect them from the cretins who lurk downtown. There is no place safe from acts of violence any more. When I went to visit Kathy in the hospital there was armed security at the main entrance during the day that waved a metal detector wand over everyone coming in. I have to think that they had received some sort of threat because it is not a usual thing. After 8pm everything was locked down and the only entrance was through the ER where there is also an armed security person with with a wand. There have been a lot of robberies and assaults lately around here so I have started carrying again when I go out at night. Random shootings and drug crap has been on the rise. Car break-ins and porch piracy is getting to be commonplace. One of our bowling friends took the classes and does plain clothes security during services at her church. Not too long ago she had her driveway alarm go off at about 2 am an confronted two thugs browsing around. She met them in her bathrobe with a Glock 9 mm and sent them packing. She said all she could see was butts and elbows hauling ass back down the road. If you live in the country around here in recent years it is common now for people to have a hand gun for protection of themselves and their property. Our next door neighbor is an RN. She works night shifts at times and carries a pink 38 revolver in a special purse that has an easily accessible pocket for the gun. This is definitely red neck country, lol. Know any thugs that need a nice truck? Keys are over the visor. No questions asked. |
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Post by Clipper on Jan 12, 2024 19:18:42 GMT -5
There is no place safe from acts of violence any more. When I went to visit Kathy in the hospital there was armed security at the main entrance during the day that waved a metal detector wand over everyone coming in. I have to think that they had received some sort of threat because it is not a usual thing. After 8pm everything was locked down and the only entrance was through the ER where there is also an armed security person with with a wand. There have been a lot of robberies and assaults lately around here so I have started carrying again when I go out at night. Random shootings and drug crap has been on the rise. Car break-ins and porch piracy is getting to be commonplace. One of our bowling friends took the classes and does plain clothes security during services at her church. Not too long ago she had her driveway alarm go off at about 2 am an confronted two thugs browsing around. She met them in her bathrobe with a Glock 9 mm and sent them packing. She said all she could see was butts and elbows hauling ass back down the road. If you live in the country around here in recent years it is common now for people to have a hand gun for protection of themselves and their property. Our next door neighbor is an RN. She works night shifts at times and carries a pink 38 revolver in a special purse that has an easily accessible pocket for the gun. This is definitely red neck country, lol. Know any thugs that need a nice truck? Keys are over the visor. No questions asked. LOL! Let them steal it and cash out book value on it from the insurance. Sounds like it might work if you leave the truck in the right place. |
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Post by BHU on Jan 13, 2024 17:09:23 GMT -5
Know any thugs that need a nice truck? Keys are over the visor. No questions asked. LOL! Let them steal it and cash out book value on it from the insurance. Sounds like it might work if you leave the truck in the right place. Lol! But with my luck they give it back to me with a "thanks but no thanks". Mechanic wssen't able to figure out the shudder. Today, CEL came on, ignition misfire, so back it goes in for service possibly Monday. |
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Post by BHU on Jan 19, 2024 11:55:54 GMT -5
LOL! Let them steal it and cash out book value on it from the insurance. Sounds like it might work if you leave the truck in the right place. Lol! But with my luck they give it back to me with a "thanks but no thanks". Mechanic wssen't able to figure out the shudder. Today, CEL came on, ignition misfire, so back it goes in for service possibly Monday. Update. Traded in the truck yesterday for a 2018 Toyota Rav4. Saw it online at Driver's Village in Cicero. I went out there, took it for a test drive, looked it over good & bought in johnny on the spot. It's a one owner & whoever had it took care of it, it has nary a scratch inside or out. I'll head back out there Monday & hand over the keys to mine & close the deal. I'll miss my truck but not the repair bills & the cost of fuel. |
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Post by artsyone on Jan 19, 2024 13:42:47 GMT -5
Wynn has one large parking lot about a half mile away on State St. Plus they have valet parking. It's not the best solution, but better than trying to walk from down town, and the road that leads into the main entrance is right in front of, so to speak, the Hotel Utica, a very short walk to Genesee Street. They are working on the parking garage. I found it very convenient.
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Post by artsyone on Jan 19, 2024 14:01:03 GMT -5
One of the problems right now is that construction of one of the primary parking ramps was held up by lawsuits from the "No Hospital Downtown" group. Brent Truett bought a house in the parking ramp footprint and filed a lawsuit against the eminent domain claim. Delayed that part of construction for about a year. Yes, that is so. I don't know how you feel about Truett, but I don't have any respect for him for several reasons having nothing to do with the No Hospital Downtown group. He had an Erie Canal house on Colombia Street, the last of three left and the houses were in an advanced part of decay, no one had lived in them for years, but he caused a lot of trouble and delay by purchasing one of the houses. He asked me to do a painting of the grouping and I did it, and then when it was done he didn't like it, so I took it to a show and sold it in an hour for more than he offered me in the first place. He is a multi millionaire for inventing a contraption called a "soft nose coupling" among other things, but he does nothing with his money but put it into loosing projects, like No Hospital Downtown, which he is obsessed with. |
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Post by BHU on Jan 19, 2024 17:27:13 GMT -5
One of the problems right now is that construction of one of the primary parking ramps was held up by lawsuits from the "No Hospital Downtown" group. Brent Truett bought a house in the parking ramp footprint and filed a lawsuit against the eminent domain claim. Delayed that part of construction for about a year. Yes, that is so. I don't know how you feel about Truett, but I don't have any respect for him for several reasons having nothing to do with the No Hospital Downtown group. He had an Erie Canal house on Colombia Street, the last of three left and the houses were in an advanced part of decay, no one had lived in them for years, but he caused a lot of trouble and delay by purchasing one of the houses. He asked me to do a painting of the grouping and I did it, and then when it was done he didn't like it, so I took it to a show and sold it in an hour for more than he offered me in the first place. He is a multi millionaire for inventing a contraption called a "soft nose coupling" among other things, but he does nothing with his money but put it into loosing projects, like No Hospital Downtown, which he is obsessed with. What the H is a "soft nose coupling"? |
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jan 20, 2024 15:39:20 GMT -5
I haven't spoken to Brett in years but I got along well with him in the past. The "Soft Nose" is an invention he came up with when he was night shift supervisor at a local manufacturing company. He had a computer controlled milling machine which malfunctioned and it took him most of the shift to get it set up and running again. He got an idea for a widget which would make the set-up after that kind of crash faster to recover from.
He patented his idea and started making them. When I met him he had 5-6 people building his widget in a small building near the old GE plant. He needed room to expand and I had available space in my company's building. Eventually, his sales were large enough that he moved his manufacturing to Asia. That's where most of his customer's were anyway.
I haven't talked with him in years. Never agreed with his opposition to the hospital.
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