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Money Moral Dilemma: Would you park free if it blocked wheelchair access?

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  • If people want obstruct or take a disabled persons parking space, perhaps they would like to take their disability!
  • BigSky wrote: »
    I’d park in a “family” parking bay though even if I was on my own. Why should people that decide to bring their screaming, fat, badly-behaved kids round the supermarket get special parking bays?

    Like others have said, some parents don't have the option of coming shopping without their children in tow.

    Family parking bays are there for a reason - it's hard to get the doors open wide enough in many parking spaces to get children easily in and out, and also makes it less likely that cars next to those with children in will get accidentally scratched when doors have to be opened extra wide.

    Also, on an additional note, I am 7.5 months pregnant with twins and have been told by my local supermarket that it is OK for me to park in family bays now - many's the time I've parked in a 'normal' parking space with plenty of room on my side to get out and returned to my car to find someone has parked so close beside me that I can't get out. It's not always possible to choose a space that you're guaranteed to get in and out of the driver's side easily. I need to be able to open my door wide so I can swivel my hips and haul my huge bump out :D

    Of course, if I'm going shopping and my husband is with me, I wouldn't yet use the family spaces - I'd park somewhere I could get out of the car easily and if I returned to the car and couldn't fit back in either side, he would be able to back the car out so I could still get in.
  • paullyuk wrote: »
    Nothing in the original post states that you would be parking in a disabled space - therefore I presume no offence would be committed by parking close to a car with such a sticker. It would be very easy to reverse into such a space and not see the sticker anyway.

    I'm not condoning being bad mannered and blocking the car's boot but there must also be some onus on the other driver to park somewhere sensible - they can't just use the sticker to "bully" other drivers into giving them 2 spaces while they only pay for 1. Generally, there are always disabled spaces nearby, or they may be able to park in an end space so as not to put anyone else out.

    I agree. Most people seem to have misunderstood the dilema. The disabled person HASN'T parked in a designated disabled space, instead they have parked in a regular parking space and requested that nobody uses the free space behind them. While the request to leave a space is fine while other parking spaces are available, it's unacceptable to expect another person to pay for an NCP space so that the disabled driver can have a free (undesignated) disabled space. After all, if wheelchair access is so vital then the NCP have (for a fee) designated bays to park in.
  • i would not obstruct a wheelchair user, his parking choice is limited and mine isn't.
    Yours is limited. Off you pop and park in a disabled space, or anywhere in Covent Garden and let me know how you get on.

    A disabled person should first seek out a convenient disabled space - its courteous, since someone else will probably not be able to use the 'normal' space.

    However, if there are no disables spaces available in a convenient location they should of course be respected like a decent human being should, and be afforded the space they need.

    David.
    Titch :)
  • mdr86
    mdr86 Posts: 104 Forumite
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    No!
    Also, I probably would have walked in the first place...
  • No, never would I park in such a space. It's not only immoral, but also down right rude, ignorant, selfish and stupid. As many others have already said, how would you feel if you were in such a situation and had to wait for some idiot to come back from their shopping trip so that you can go home?

    To quote another moneysaver above:
    "I'm not condoning being bad mannered and blocking the car's boot but there must also be some onus on the other driver to park somewhere sensible - they can't just use the sticker to "bully" other drivers into giving them 2 spaces while they only pay for 1. Generally, there are always disabled spaces nearby, or they may be able to park in an end space so as not to put anyone else out."

    Generally there are always disabled spaces nearby? Really? You obviously speak from your vast experience of the locations of disabled spaces across the country. My father-in-law is disabled, and my mother-in-law often struggles to find a space to park in when out and about. There may not always be an end space to park in - sometimes they too (just like us) have to make the best of a bad situation and park wherever they can. I should add that she would never dream of blocking someone in, whether they too are disabled or not.

    This really is a simple dilemma unless you are particularly immoral. Just take a minute and put yourself in their position and then I'm sure that most people would say no. Is your shopping trip really that essential? If so, then pay the car park fee. If not, then turn around and shop another day. As Aleksander Meerkat would say "simples"!
  • tabaira
    tabaira Posts: 24 Forumite
    Never park where you could inconvenience a disabled person: they did not choose to be disabled, you can walk - rejoice and enjoy your mobility; and have compassion for those less fortunate.
  • traceyf01
    traceyf01 Posts: 14 Forumite
    Yes I would park there - the space is there to be used and there are more than ample disabled parking spaces with plenty of access area. Disabled badge holders complain enough when non badge holders park in their spaces so vice versa - and before anyone says I'm selfish my husband is a disabled badge holder and our attitude in this position would be to move the car out of the space and then put the wheelchair in if there wasn't enough room.:rolleyes:
  • NO, Never ever ever !
  • Emmsie21
    Emmsie21 Posts: 93 Forumite
    BigSky wrote: »
    Absolutely NOT! Only the most ignorant lazy !!!!!! would do that.

    I’d park in a “family” parking bay though even if I was on my own. Why should people that decide to bring their screaming, fat, badly-behaved kids round the supermarket get special parking bays?

    because they are bigger allowing easy access for pushchairs. Oh, and not all kids are naughty in the supermarket or indeed fat.

    On the actual subject no l wouldn't park behind a car requesting space for a wheelchair.
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