for Thursday February 17th

It was a busy rainy day at the Mercy Loading Dock on J St. Mercy had an event in the parking lot and closed the lot to freight trucks and their busses. The busses loaded on J. St loading zone. The freight trucks went to the dock off H St.

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I didn't get to UCD as promised to check them out for freight and smoking. I will try tomorrow.

Trucks lined up at the Interior Loading Dock off H St.

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Another view.

The unloading was handled fairly efficiently. Here a fork lift is handling pallets. These pallets are fairly close the back of kitchen area. Why isn't all freight handled this way?

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The Mercy Buses did their job on J St. They occasionally blocked our driveway, and Mercy's main entrance too. (As shown above). Mercy traffic directors kept thing moving. In my opinion these buses must be moved from the Fire Lane and their exhaust taken away from our house.

for Wednesday February 16th

Today, Wednesday, was a normal day at the Mercy Loading Dock on J St. I paid another visit to Sutter Memorial to see what they are doing about smoking and smokers. Sutter since 2007 is a non-smoking campus.

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No smokers on the sidewalks in front of the hospital

No smokers adjacent to the neighbor property owners.

Here they are in a small sheltered area just for them.

The shelter is removed from the secondary main entrance. Past that you can see the loading docks.

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I wonder how UCD hospital complex on Stockton Blvd. handles the problems Mercy has created for itself.

for Tuesday February 15th

Tuesday at the Mercy J St. Truck Dock. Nothing new or different. This trucker using City parkway for loading his cart and city sidewalks for hauling his freight.

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Today I went over to Sutter Memorial Hospital in East Sacramento too. Maybe a mile away from Mercy. The above is one of their loading docks. They have three. Note that it is a covered dock.

This is a sign on one of the docks.

Sutter Memorial has another dock across the way. (See below). And evidently another one in the basement for "after hours and weekends" deliveries.

Above is a Sutter dock. It is covered and no rain water gets on the freight.

Where are Mercy's docks? Why are they using the very busy J St and City parkway and sidewalks? What are the after construction plans for the street loading docks. I have asked Mercy reps in open meetings and received fuzzy answers.

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Tune in tomorrow to learn about Sutter's "None Smoking Campus" and why there are no smokers walking the neighborhoods. No patients pushing their IV stands or laying on their gurneys while they smoke in our neighborhood along H and J St.

for Monday February 14th

Typical Monday morning at the Mercy J St. loading dock. The tailgate of the large truck is just a few yards from our bedroom window. The driver is taking extra effort to do his job quietly.

This is very dangerous loading. The driver using the narrow lane to do his side loading. The lanes are chocked because the trucks don't fit inside the parking spaces. Note in the background, a full pallet is moved across the traffic lane.

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The noisy forklift transports the whole hospital's food products through the cafeteria. The noise level is 77.3 over a background of 51.9 decibels.

for Friday February 11th

In the circle, a driver is unloading his truck in the traffic lanes. Notice the car going into the center lane to avoid hitting him.

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The driver on this truck is all but blocking the pedestrian's street crosser's vision.

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Driver is using the public sidewalks as a freight handling area.

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The hospital needs a place for these people to smoke.

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And that place is not in font of our home. All pictures taken this morning.

for Friday February 11th

At the Mercy main entrance this morning. I didn't get my tailgate wake up call. The driver was carefully and quietly lowering it and raising it. I just bought a noise measuring device.

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And the busses were stopping at the entrance and not in the fire lane by my house. At least as long as the loading dock was in operation.

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I have a new gadget. A sound meter. I wanted to test it, but the truck driver was doing his job silently. So I measured the noise of bringing all the freight thru the dining room to the kitchen. I understand all the food for the hospital moves on this route.

The background noise was a quiet 57.9.

The noisy freight cart registered 77.3 decibels as it went by..

for Wednesday February 9th

Pictures from Wednesday am. This Coke truck is way of the loading zone and is choking Mercy's main entrance.

Other vehicles pulling into the entrance are forced into a wide turn.

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This bus is forced into the center divider. The driving lane is being choked off by the Coke truck parking past the parking lines.