Blue Badge use in COLLECTING someone

andyrules

Thorntonone wrote: »

should be no need to ask' it,s there in the screen for all to see, well thats the way i see it any way .

That's what I thought. Those not displaying a badge probably don't have one. Agree, we shouldn't be touchy about those who challenge - they are actually looking after your interests. I, too, am fed up with the abuse - particularly when it is by people with a baby - a process which doesn't render you incapable of walking:rolleyes:

Biggles

andyrules wrote: »

particularly when it is by people with a baby - a process which doesn't render you incapable of walking

Well, it does for a day or so.....
;-)

Babshubbie

Biggles wrote: »

Well, it does for a day or so.....
;-)

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

simgranny

martyncr wrote: »

. I, on the other hand, cannot walk more than a few metres without the risk of a fall, but was recently told to choose between a blue badge and freedom pass, even though I am a motability leaseholder!

Did you manage to challenge this and get both? My husband has both, and also a taxicard. This enables him to choose the most appropriate (and acessible) method of transport for each journey he needs to make. - some journeys would be a nightmare by car - others are impossible by bus or tube because the transport system in London is not yet fully wheelchair accessible.

Andromeda

Other capital cities put London to shame. I was in Athens, and their metro is fully accessible, they have big signs on the lift doors telling people the disabled get priority - I used the metro a lot whilst I was there, and I never once saw an Athenian abuse the disabled lifts.

In Helsinki there are accessible trams and Copenhagen accessible buses, and the metro in Stockholm is great, too. London is terrible for access by comparison.

andyrules

Biggles wrote: »

Well, it does for a day or so.....
;-)

:T

I still managed to hobble a bit though;)

LameWolf

I rather liked the notice I saw next to the disabled parking bay when I was in St Sampsons, Guernsey a couple of years ago. It said "If you want to take my space, take my disability".

I think, in the extremely unlikely event of my husband collecting me from somewhere and using the Blue Badge to park, I'd try and be at the car park ready for him to pick me up, so that it should be obvious that he wasn't abusing the privilege.

martyncr

simgranny wrote: »

Did you manage to challenge this and get both? My husband has both, and also a taxicard. This enables him to choose the most appropriate (and acessible) method of transport for each journey he needs to make. - some journeys would be a nightmare by car - others are impossible by bus or tube because the transport system in London is not yet fully wheelchair accessible.

Yes .. but it took a long time and a lot of effort :mad: . I have an automatic entitlement to all of these 'concessions', something that should have been immediately obvious, but which was determinedly overlooked by my north London council. My entitlement arose on the day upon which my original DLA award was backdated too, post appeal and still stands. They put up a good show, but could and should have given me all three concessions without incident. It took me almost two years in all to get the three concessions, yet social services have only renewed the Freedom Pass (the only concession for which they are still responsible) in the absense of formal complaint on two occasions since it was first granted in 1992. I was given the first Freedom Pass via the discretionary route because DLA did not then exist and I was being badly advised about my lack of entitlement to what was then Mobility Allowance.

simgranny

Glad to hear that you've got it all sorted now! Our borough are not that great for a lot of things but my husband didn't have all the bother that you have had to get these things. Even within London, things really seem to vary a lot from borough to borough.

peediedj

i had the same recently on taking my 12 year old disabled son(whom we have a blue badge for)to hospital for a operation,our local hospital has a shortage of disabled space i found 1 right at start and procedded to get out of the car,a car pulled up beside me and flashed his blue badge,so i nodded to say i had one,he sat there until i took the wheelchair out the boot,put my son in it and moved 0f,as my son looks normal,when in a car,people dont think hes wheelchair bound