for Thursday June 30th

Pictures taken this thursday show delivery truck parked and unloading in the red and blocking part of the driveway. The buses and cars have to turn wide to miss the tailgate.

Another view,
The freight is taken to a transfer area which doubles as a bus stop. Two hand trucks work this freight. Then all this freight is hauled through the length of the cafeteria, coming very close to diners. The empty pallets are taken back the same way.

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This is not a good way to run things. Who is in charge of Mercy safety?

for Monday June 27th

It is Monday morning. This is our next to our home noise maker. He is doing his work in a red zone. He is checking the traffic on J St.

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One car slows to let him pass. If it had been in foggy rainy weather..... If the driver had a DUI problem. If... Lots of situations can add up to an accident.

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Here is Mercy's freight distribution area. The hand trucks work around the bus passengers. A situation somewhat similar to the street problem.

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This whole situation will only get worst when Mercy adds all their new expansion, and no more trucking unloading spaces. By Code they were required to add many more commercial spaces. They barely have one now.

for Friday June 24th

He does his Toting, Packing, and Stacking any where that pleases him.

We think it s uncalled for, for Mercy to run their freight business next to our residence. Mercy should follow the city codes and the EIR. There are other places in their 13 Ac. for this operation. We wish the gorilla was concern about their neighbors.

for Thursday June 23rd

Pictures taken this morning. The large trucks exceed the parking limits, Above a driver is playing dodge ball with the traffic. He is past the red zone into Mercy's driveway.

The passing cars used the center lane to pass the freight truck as he is parked past the limit lines on the street side. See picture #3, below. Mercy's buses heading the other way use this lane for turning left which is a potential conflict.

This picture shows the limit line. If you count the rear vision mirrors, the truck is way out into the lane. This is not a once in a while thing. It is a three day a week thing.

This show the front end of the truck. It far exceeds the parking limit.

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Why we care.

1.)There were many meetings with Mercy prior to this expansion. We had in home visits by their staff. We feel we were lead down the garden path. Nary a word was spoken about our home being next to a freight handling depot, and bus stop with buses running many times per hour.

2.) There are no plans for Mercy to do anything differently after their expansion. They are required by code to have numerous additional commercial parking space. Where are the plans?

for wednesday June 22nd

Fairly typical. Diver in street unloading his truck. Other driver getting ready to cross the road to his truck in the middle. The signal causes lapses in traffic. The cars come through in bunches.

There is no way big trucks like these can fit into curb side parking spaces.

for Tuesday June 21st

Should the freight handlers be using City sidewalks and parkways? The Mercy Campus is 13 ac. There is room elsewhere. No other hospital in the area does this.

for Thursday June16th

A worst case scenario. A risk-taking delivery driver gets hit by a passing car. No one wants this, but no one is preventing it either. The hospital and Coke and the City all have the power to prevent it and protect the drivers.

All it would take is a car/truck in the middle lane to narrow the lane the delivery driver is using, and the cartoon event will happen. The lawyers will need a truck to haul their money to a bank. Brinks' trucks are always safely parked at Mercy.