General Chat

taken from Freds' Link

The Blue Badge Scheme does not apply to off-street car parks, for example supermarket car parks. However, off-street car parks may provide bays for Blue Badge holders. Please check any signs or notices before parking.




if supermarket carparks are indeed private land and impose their own rules
then as private land we dont need tax, insurance, or mot to be there?........

DET - what if there is a parent and children rather than child. My daughter had a 2 y.o. toddler and new-born twins. It was really handy for her to park the car close to the shops and only have to walk a short distance rather than risk walking through a carpark with moving cars and keep hold of a twin stroller and a toddler.

You must have tax, mot & insurance unless you declare to the DVLA that the vehicle is off the road.

You also need it to get to the supermarket.

Sorry Suemaid - it may be 'handy' but not impossible to manage both! Its all in the training, and if necessary the modern version of 'reins'.

Yes Fred, but once its there?


LOL

Thank you for coming back Bob.

My main gripes are: able bodied using disabled bays and cash point cripples. They are the ones who don't seem able to walk further than 20 feet from the cash machine and think it's OK to park half on the pavement or 'pop in to a disabled bay'.

People using a blue badge without the person it belongs to being in the vehicle, that is admitted to on a disability site I belong to.

As for me being happy that the driver would receive a £70 fine why wouldn't I be pleased? It might just stop them from repeating the abuse and deter others once word gets around.

Victoria Beckham's driver parked in a disabled bay whilst she went into a well known toy store, perhaps her high heels prevented her from tottering more than 20 feet!

It's just inconsiderate, end of!

I'd swap my duff leg for a good one and hand in my vehicle and badge in a heart beat.

we could claim a blue badge for my dad but decided it would not get the use to warrant it.

However,my partner has gout which occasionally becomes very painful and I have a problem that causes my back to go into spasm without warning and have suffered from something in the past that stopped me walking more than a few yards.

We don't need a blue badge but,sometimes,we need a little leniency with where we park. Generally one of us will drive the other and stay in the car as close to where we can to pick them up.

What annoys me is when you get an able bodied person taking someone out with a badge just so they can sit in the car in the carpark.

I did say to a lady once that was parked in the parent & toddler bay that she had forgotten something as she was driving off.....she stopped & said that she hadn't but i said she had did she leave her toddler in the shop liolol

now slightly off topic,
how would you know if someone is disabled "enough"
for example Oscar Pistorious,no legs below the knee
he can run 400 metres in less than 50 seconds

I cant. (I'm 74,I have Copd and gout, but to see me........I look normal, fit.....)

to see him while wearing trousers, wearing walking prosthetics.on the podium, If you didnt know,

how could you tell?

Bob

Bob you have to be able to prove your ill enough to get one, thats why they are so valuble & get stolen.

Yes I know, but I was referring to the " fit looking person" in the carpark scene.

Some people are physically UNABLE while looking fit...
Bob

l take friends to hospital using their badge, its horrendous for anyone to park at this hospital and neither of them can walk far and are both in alot of pain, if the disabled spaces are full l park where l can and walk.
And Yep l think anyone that parks in disabled bays that are not disabled, should be fined!!

jude :-|

The parent and child parking bays are a marketing ploy. People with families need to spend money to feed them. They would only be inconvenienced by using a narrower standard parking bay but need to be enticed into the business with the offer of a special service of their own.

Some people have an illness you can't see, but are still in a hell of a lot of pain & can't walk very far at all. They also need a lot of room to get out of the car they are in. They might look fit but that does not mean they are fit. If they have a blue badge then that should be enough to tell the person that has it is in need of it. They don't just hand them out to anybody that ask's for one. Hospitals should learn to be more helpful & stop others from parking in disabled bays if they dont have badges.

Just to clarify a point.............if a person is disabled and has a blue badge and they are in the car it doesn't mean you can park in a disabled bay or on yellow lines just because they are in the car, it is them that have to get out the car not them sit in it while you get out and do whatever.
Our local Asda store will not do anything about the misuse of disable bays as they donot want to lose customers :-|

Mummo

Neither does our Tesco's i have seen cars with Blue badges parked in P&T spaces cos there is no bays left, it really does need to be sorted

It is the same with people that pay for parking permits where they live .. then come home from work and cannot park because people that dont even live in that street have parked there .

Must admit when I read this post I also thought it was close to home "in Asda near the house today.".

I wouldn't have thought that a fine could have been imposed on anyone in a private car park unless there is a special notice .I agree parking in a disabled space is a selfish thing to do.

As for parent and child having a bigger parking space I am in agreement with that. Keep their flying doors away from my paintwork , I always park as far away as I can and accept the walk. Being a pensioner I don't have to walk too far as I always go shopping when the majority of people are at work. -jl

To All, It seems people feel strongly about this subject, so why not get as many names on paper backing the subject up in your area, then get your local paper & MP on your side & see what can be done about it?

as I pointed out in my posting Bob, my husband looked fit and well - but he most definitely wasn't - his disability was not visible - I think the fact that he died of his illness within six months of receiving the badge is proof enough of that - many illnesses are not "visible" yet the person is entitled to a blue badge - my OH had a very rare lung disease - akin to asbestosis - it was fibrosing alveolitis - once you ar diagnosed there is not treatmnt and no cure, you just wait to die - and a painful and traumatic death it is too - your lungs get covered in a fibrous tissue which slowly coats the lungs making it impossible for them to expand - eventually the time comes when they can no longer expand and you fight for breath which ain't gonna come - bit like drowning - the solution is a massive morphine jab to end life quickly rather than watch them thrashing about the bed gasping for air - not nice