Why are we restricting the number of vehicle entry points to the NIH campus? Why not open more entrances and exits to ease traffic flow?
Maintaining campus access control is labor intensive and requires multiple shifts of multiple police or security guards as well as other logistics such as signage, traffic barriers, vehicle inspection stations, weather shelters, etc. Deploying more security staff to open more entrances would deplete staff monitoring building entrances, loading docks and conducting other day-to-day police activities. Even maintaining the current entry points has required the NIH Police to continuously work 12 hour shifts, six days a week.
