There's more than 100 new parking spots at the University Hospital of Northern B.C.
Each day about 800 visitors use the front visitors' parking lot at the hospital and the 54 new angled parking stalls will help ease the pressure.
There is an additional 55 parking stalls where the old Nechako building was located on Alward Street.
Patients, visitors, staff and physicians will benefit from these improvements.
Along with the increased parking spaces Edmonton Street was widened to accommodate the angled parking on both sides of the street.
There is a throughway for both directions of traffic and a bus stop.
Other improvements include crosswalks and sidewalks to bus loops and the parking lot across 15th Avenue and an exit-only access point to get on 15th Avenue west in front of the Learning and Development Centre where more parking will be available later this year.
The visitor parking project was completed in the summer and cost about $850,000, of which the Fraser-Fort George Regional Hospital District funded $340,000. The parking stall project located on Alward where the old Nechako Building was located cost about $735,000 of which Fraser-Fort George Regional Hospital District funded $294,000.
