You don’t really get the whole picture just by looking at the title.
The hospital’s operations are being moved in August to new and upgraded facilities at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and at Fort Belvoir, Va. The price tag for the new facilities is $2.6 billion.
The hospital in Bethesda will be called the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
So, from old Walter Reed, to new Walter Reed.
ping for the DC chapter.
Didn’t make it last Friday but am trying very, very hard to make it for this Friday’s closing freep.
Didn’t they just spend a buttload of money fixing it up?
New facility - but just try to get there ... There were NO BRAC funds for upgrading the transportation infrastructure.
Med Center is bordered east and west by Connecticut and Wisconsin Avenues [3 lanes each way on each road]. Bordered on north and south by Cedar Lane and Jones Bridge Roads [2 lanes each way on each road].
CURRENT rush hour traffic by civilians going to work backs up Connecticut and Wisconsin for about a mile [ON A GOOD DAY - GOD FORBID A TRAFFiC ACCIDENT]. Cedar Lane and Jones Bridge ALSO back up too.
With the move - more than 4,000 NEW personnel at the complex, PLUS DOUBLING the annual number of patients from 500,000 to 1 Million +. IMAGINE the NEW traffic headaches ...
Hospital clinics ARE NOT ready, NOT enough parking for the NEW influx of people, the food court area is ALREADY overflowing at lunch time [NOT TO MENTION THE TRINKET VENDORS WHO SET UP SHOP IN THE SAME HALLWAY - LOOKS LIKE AN F*IN’ INDIAN BAZAAR].
How do I know ALL this - I live 2.5 miles away ...
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