Parking ticket in Asda car park - Is this legal, can they take me to court?

kenshaz

The reason for dis-proportinate dis-abled parking places is because demand fluctuates
between peak and off peak shopping times,the Supermarket is attempting to make allowance for potential relative to the population,this has the effect of making some dis-gruntled,but I am sure that if they had to stand in others shoes they would soon realise ,just need to be more tolerant.

kenshaz

Wig wrote:

In America they get proper sized spaces not the sardine can spaces we are given, so people are quite happy to park in normal spaces in US.

But they are a huge country and much more land mass.They can keep their large car spaces I would prefer to live in a country that has greater civil liberty,the USA has nothing to envy

annoyed1971

liz_uk wrote:

Also parents and child spaces.

I have been in Cheltenham plenty of time and have approached people who blatantly have no kids and are just god damn lazy !!

They are more embarrassed than anything !!

Don`t be so bloomin lazy and park in a normal bay !

Liz, why shouldn't people park in parent and child spaces? I make a point of parking here (and no I don't have any kids) to avoid my car getting damaged by ignorant people who whack their doors open. There is no legal or moral grounds for these spaces unlike Disabled parking.

Disabled parking is provided to assist people who NEED to be closer to shops and NEED extra space for wheelchairs etc. It's not these people's fault that they are disabled (in the main) and they deserve some additional help.

Why should parents have shorter distance to walk or wider spaces just because they CHOSE to have a family?

I have never been embarased about parking in these spaces though I have been challenged many times by parents. My response is simple......."You chose to have a family, I chose to have a nice shiny 2 door sports coupe......don't have a go at me just because I made the better choice!".

End of rant........

tomstickland

Are you a troll?

annoyed1971

Not at all, just someone who is sick of being told to defer to others becuase they have a family and I don't. Why is my time or convenience seen to be less important becuase I'm not someone's mother?

I still have to pay the same amount of tax as everyone else despite making no use of many of the services I pay for and still I'm expected to be accept that I am a second class citizen with less rights.

I'm not hear for an argument or to start trouble, this just happens to be a topic that i feel very strongly about and wanted to put across my situaton, and many like me, to counter viewpoint of the previous post.

Wig

No not a troll, I agree with that poster completely.

kenshaz wrote:

the USA has nothing to envy

Except a lack of door dings!

tomstickland

Parent and child parking spaces are there so that they can open the doors wider and all that. Being a parent involves more hassle, so give them a break. I used to park at the furthest end of the supermarket when I cared about my car.

The supermarket make the rules, you're not a liberty to choose which ones you obey. For example, I might decide that the pricing of cheesy crackers is not to my liking, so I feel it's within my rights to buy them for nothing.

Do as you choose, but if the supermarket try to fine you then don't whinge about it.

I'm not a parent BTW.

annoyed1971

tomstickland wrote:

Parent and child parking spaces are there so that they can open the doors wider and all that. Being a parent involves more hassle, so give them a break. I used to park at the furthest end of the supermarket when I cared about my car.

Do as you choose, but if the supermarket try to fine you then don't whinge about it.

I'm not a parent BTW.

2 door coupes, 4x4's and vans all need more room to open doors too but you don't see any special spaces for them.

Being a parent may involve more hassle but again, it's all a matter of choice.

taxiphil

danio wrote:

A disabled person doesn't have the luxury of being able to run across a car park when it's pouring down with rain, Life should be made as easy as possible for them, they have enough to cope with, and this includes being able to park in a disabled bay without having to wait because there aren't enough spaces, or because some ignorant able bodied person decides to take a disabled spot because they can't be bothered to walk a few extra feet.

I would challenge any able bodied person who thinks it is ok to park in a disabled bay to spend a day in a wheelchair......they might just then think twice in future!!

Actually I've seen plenty of "disabled" people miraculously leap out of their cars and dart across the car park. The disabled badge scheme is rife with abuse - the vast majority of badgeholders have got very minor ailments - this gives a bad reputation to the ones who are genuinely crippled.

Anyway, putting that argument aside, I think non-disabled people have rights too, which shouldn't be entirely overlooked. There has to be a limit to how far you can make these concessions. How about a bit of respect for non-disabled people? Shouldn't our lives be made as easy as possible too? We all have a lot to cope with. Just because we're not physically disabled doesn't mean our lives aren't tough and full of serious problems. Don't forget it's the non-disabled people going to work, burning themselves out in underpaid jobs and paying a fortune in tax so that some disabled people (several million, actually) can live a life of carefree leisure on incapacity benefit (I used the word "some" and not "all" there).

You didn't actually answer my question: why is it such a hardship and injustice for a disabled person to wait in their car until a disabled space becomes available, like the rest of us have to do? I'm sure it doesn't cause them any physical pain or indignity. So where is the valid reason?

Therefore I can't see why there should always be this unnecessarily large number of disabled bays, making life much more of a pain for non-disabled people.

natjay_2

Parent and child spaces are located closer to the shops so that parents don’t have to walk their small children across the car park, thus putting them in danger of being run over by some idiot who is talking on a mobile phone and not concentrating on where they are going
Parent and child spaces are more for safety than for convenience, so if somebody values their car more than they value chid safety then it just shows what a sad person they really are

Also I think the fine for parking in a disabled space is 100% justified, show a bit of respect for people that are less fortunate than you

BTW I do not have any small children and don’t use Parent and child spaces or disabled spaces