General Chat

Disabled Parking bays. I did read a few weeks ago where the big 'five' were going to do something about misuse of these bays. Today whilst parking in the Disabled Parking at Asda's I noticed the car next to us getting a ticket - when we enquired of the young man he said it was a £60 fine - £30 if paid in 10 days and he was wearing a jacket of some parking company, not an Asda jacket.

About time too, hope the others are doing the same.

a friend of ours parked in the diabled bay at Asad
and was fined £60


she said she will think twice about doing it again

asda use a private company to check on cars in there car park.ive seen lots of poeple parking in the mother and child bay without children.x

Not before time

I noticed a guy booking a car parked in a disbled bay with no badge in my local Asda this week - as I passed I said "Book him" to which the guy replied "Oh yes!!!"

one thing I would ask people to be aware of is that not all people who have disabled badges look disabled - my late husband had one and he looked absolutely fine to anyone seeing him park - in fact he was dying and we only had the badge for about six months before he passed away, so please don't judge people by how they look

About time, we are sick of driving round and round trying to find a space. I have complained to T***o but they didn't give a hoot.

We have been before and gone home again because there were no spaces and me getting out of the car in a normal space is a no go.

The times we have watched someone rush into a disabled bay, leap out of the car (no sticker) go in get their lunch and SIT IN THE DAMN CAR to eat it.

I like the stickers 'thank you for taking my parking space, would you like my disability too' but then I'm evil :-D

On the other hand.....and I do understand...honest I do :-D.......Our supermarket car park is usually over full and the disabled parking spaces are usually completely empty....and there are masses of them.....a bit of a peev when one is wasting petrol cruising a carpark to find a space :-\
Edit........

has anyone ever seen a queue outside a disabled loo?......nor me......one is .standing there looking at it longingly and wishing one had worn tennas......The queue in which one is, is moving at a snails pace and you just know that you are not going to make it........Simples.......whip into the disabled loo and limp out...

:-D :-D :-D

the disabled loo is just that , designed to accomodate disabled users..it is NOT exclusively for disabled users..in my opinion........if I was tooken short.(With my prostate problem)and the others were occupied..........I would use it..
as has been said before, you dont have to look obviously disabled to be disabled

Bob

Ah but Bob.....playing devils advocate.......( but more like arguing for the sake of it, lol) ........if you have a problem then perhaps it is a disability........


They are going to kill me in the morning lol :-D

Susan,

as I said disabilities are not always obvious, to a seriously disabled person.........OR to other onlookers, I have COPD, and occasionally gout.

which MIGHT look like a ski ing problem!! but it aint!

but I dont qualify for a ticket.......

Bob

I had to BUY my radar key for disabled loos. If I found an able bodied using one they would get a poke with my crutch! That is discrimination as I pointed out to my MP and the Minister for the disabled. Able bodied get to pee for free.

and yes that poke applies to you Susan :-D

and the verbal killing you will get on the phone today :-P

Not before time if you ask me.
:-D :-D :-D

I don't qualify for a ticket either, and most of the time I don't even think about parking space or toilets, but when me feet are 'killing' me and I am having trouble walking boy to those empty parking spaces look tempting .

I was brought up to never complain (and I don't) but I am just has disabled has anyone else with Locomotive ataxia (CP) They get All the breaks and I don't.

ITS NOT FAIR :-P :-(

There I said it and I feel better now :-S

I don't approve of parking in disabled bays ...and I never do it. I very well remember the trouble my Grandad used to have walking any sort of distance and I used to get cross when he became even more breathless because he'd had to park further away because some selfish *(&^^%% was in a disabled space when they didn't need it

HOWEVER. I also disapprove of anyone who hasn't got young children using the Mother and Baby parking bays too ...I remember struggling with a baby and a toddler in a normal space where I couldn't open the door far enough to be able to strap them in without difficulty...and caught sight of a woman with 2 much older kids going back to her car parked in the mother and toddler bays. Stormed up to her and told her what I thought...she sneeringly said *well these ARE my babies*..BLAH. Hope people like her are targetted next :-P

And not before time. People who randomly use disabled parking spaces deserve everything they get. Many's the time while out with my severely disabled brother I would drive around looking for a space and then witness some lazy so and so sprint out of the shop, jump into their car and drive off. If no disabled badge was being displayed I would often wait by said car and have a go at driver, often getting a mouthful of abuse for my trouble. Sadly my brother is now in a home and I can no longer take him out but would still have a go at anyone using a disabled space if no badge was showing.

First I would say that non disabled should NOT park in disabled bays but I have seen the blue badges abused in the past.

Only last Monday I had parked in the council car park about 200yds away and had to carry my dog to the vets as there isn't any parking there. A car pulled up on the road [double yellow lines and directly opposite a road junction] in front of the vets and an elderly couple got out with thier equally elderly dog, all obviously had difficulty walking. The son put on the blue badge on the dashboard and they all came into the vets.

A warden came along an wrote a ticket out, and the son dashed outside followed by the elderly man. When they came back in, there was much talk about how they had the blue badge and shouldn't be booked. Going from what thye were saying it was the elderly man who qualifyed for the badge so there was no reason why the son couldn't have dropped them off and then parked up in the car park.

My dog weighs 20kgs and I have arthritis in my back, hip and knee, I still walk the fells although a bit slower than I used to, and I managed to walk that distance so why couldn't the son?????

And while on the subject of toilets my oh has both types of IBS so I am always telling him to use the disabled toilets if possible as for one thing I have noticed that they are kept much cleaner and when he's got to go he's got to go!!

Now parking on double yellows is out of order for ANYONE, whether or not they have the blue badge. Sorry, but that is about traffic control and road safety.The son should have moved the car to a safer place after dropping his parents off, it wouldn't have taken long. The blue badge doesn't entitile you to park just where you like. So serve him right for getting a ticket.

I does bug me that people abuse the parking bays though, but I have to say I am guilty of making the most of the fact that my sister holds a blue badge on account of my brother being severely disabled. He wasn't with us, and this was just before my hip replacement, when she gave me a lift to the local co-op, and we parked in the disabled bay, using the blue badge she has for our brother. REason being, I was having a particularly bad day and walking very badly with my stick, so she insisted she use it in my case. (I was on DLA at the time for mobility).

I have spoken to people who have no badge and parked in a disabled bay, to a gobful of abuse back. I'm glad fines are now being dished out. It might make people think twice.

Like other's I disagree with AB people parking in disabled bays, although some places seem to have far too many of them, the short stay car park at T5 Heathrow for instance. Last autumn we went to collect someone off an overnight flight (taking 2 cars for the luggage). It took 15 mins of driving around to find spaces, not even finding one by itself. But there were loads of empty disabled ones on each floor.

Parent and child spaces in supermarkets may be a bonus, but at the risk of sounding like a 'in my day' person, if I managed with 3 children of various ages + a full week's shopping, or a double buggy, why is it now difficult for young able bodied mums?

you can park on double yelows with a blue badge as long as you are not causing an obstruction - the only time you can't park on double yellows with a blue badge is if there is an additional yellow flash on the kerb

DET..that could be because we didn't have all the safety equipment in the cars then, and strapping our children into the car wasn't an issue. When I was a baby, we didn't have booster seats, seat belts and all the other gizmos. (to be fair, and Muffy actually said it was the strapping in that caused her the most difficulty.).

I have also seen people complain about someone using a disabled bay, who wasn't in a wheelchair. Disablitly isn't always visible, and it's not always about having a wider space closer to the door. You don't have to be in a wheelchair to be classified 'disabled'. (yet)