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Midwood Ambulances Idling on Park Side for hours — Brooklynian

Midwood Ambulances Idling on Park Side for hours

oldcrowd
oldcrowd
edited November -1 in Park Slope
For the past few months I have been plagued by Midwood Ambulances parked and their drivers eating lunch or sleeping while their vehicles idle and pollute the air. I called the company on three different occasions. The dispatcher then calls then and they move. Why do they park in our neighborhood? Why do they think it is okay to run the engines and pollute the air. What should be my next step?

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  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    Hovering in the vicinity of Methodist Hospital?

    Perhaps the spaces alongside the hospital are already taken so other drivers lurk by the park awaiting dispatch, hoping no one will bother them.

    Just a guess.
  • new2hood
    new2hood
    They aren't as bad as the ambulette drivers, who are a total nuisance. Poor driving skills, a fierce devotion to the horn, and major determination to not utilize larger, 2-way streets rather than more narrow residential streets.
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    Oldest child used to work for Midwood, works for different company now. They do a lot of transport for Methodist hospital, they are not 911 ambulances, so, they will never be speeding off to an emergency, only if one happens right in front of them. But, they do tons of moving people from one hospital to another, from a nursing home to a hospital, etc., etc..

    and, one of their biggest hospital clients is Methodist,so, that is why they hang around this area. The idling I can't explain, I guess they need to do it for their radios to work or something.
  • eggcream
    eggcream

    Subject: Re: Midwood Ambulances Idling on Park Side for hours

    oldcrowd wrote: What should be my next step?
    Get a life perhaps. They do a lot of good for a lot of people. Find something else to complain about.
  • sadarami
    sadarami
    I often see ambulances, not sure if their Midwood or another service, idling inside the park near the 3rd street entrance in the early AM. Really stinks up the park when you are going for a run, cops never seem to mind that 1) they are in the park 2) they are idling for no reason and 3) they are on the footpath, I always want to knock on their window and ask WTF but not in mood at 6 am.
  • boogieknight
    boogieknight
    Its hot out people - can't run the a/c on battery alone, gotta idle.

    winter time - same deal, only now its heat instead of a/c.

    90% of their job is them sitting in their ambulance waiting for something to happen, so its understandable from a human level that they'd want to be comfortable.

    A lot of us are likely right this moment sitting in a very nicely cooled office/home due to our a/c units - where's that exhaust going?
  • ringrunner
    ringrunner
    I would call 311.
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