Traffic woes of Seattle hospital expansion plan studied

Seattle's Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center could get more employees out of their cars, significantly easing the traffic effect of its proposed expansion, according to a study. Just under 38% of daytime Children's Hospital employees now drive alone to work, and hospital officials have proposed a program they say would lower that rate to 30% during a proposed expansion that would more than double the number of beds and building sizes on the hospital's 22-acre campus and the 1.8 acres facing it.