Asda....parking Fine..

morveryn

With regard to disabled parking, to fulfil the requirements of the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) disabled parking bays must be monitored to stop abuse of these bays (by able bodied drivers or by blue badge abuse).
If a disabled person cannot gain access to a disabled parking bay because an unentitled person is there, then they may not be able to gain access to the store and the company can be fined.
While it is not illegal to park in disabled parking bays, this is probably why the stores can fine people.
I don't know the legal side of how fines work with mother & baby bays.

astonsmummy

hjb123 wrote:

I totally agree with what you are saying and the line needs to be drawn at where children stop being children for the sake of parent and child bays.

Just how old would the child be to be eligible as being the child - I should of thought if the child is no longer in a pushchair? Or maybe if they are out of a pushchair you should have to have 2 children to warrant one of these spaces?

IMO it should be until the child can get in and out of the car without the help of a parent dunno wat age that is probably 3 or 4.
DS is 2 and i have a 2 door car, it's a nightmare trying to get a 2 stone lump in the car seat!
I remeber when i first had him, i wuld have the car seat in the front, and a few times had to put him in throiugh the drivers side because people park to clse, and they still do it now when there ia a great big car seat in the back:mad:
I cant bear it when i see people in p&b parking spaces when they clearly have no children and i think they should be fined

Rachie_B

astonsmummy wrote:

IMO it should be until the child can get in and out of the car without the help of a parent dunno wat age that is probably 3 or 4.
DS is 2 and i have a 2 door car, it's a nightmare trying to get a 2 stone lump in the car seat!
I remeber when i first had him, i wuld have the car seat in the front, and a few times had to put him in throiugh the drivers side because people park to clse, and they still do it now when there ia a great big car seat in the back:mad: I cant bear it when i see people in p&b parking spaces when they clearly have no children and i think they should be fined

who looks though ? i cant say as i ever notice if other cars have car seats in the back ?!

chatta

I am wondering if people are getting too precious about their cars and lifes dings, all this talk of using two spaces etc is a bit much. If you wish to spend so much money on a car why not use online shopping then you can spend the time out polishing the car for the neighbour to admire :rolleyes:

astonsmummy

Rachie_B wrote:

who looks though ? i cant say as i ever notice if other cars have car seats in the back ?!

maybe it's just me but i always look just incase

astonsmummy

chatta wrote:

I am wondering if people are getting too precious about their cars and lifes dings, all this talk of using two spaces etc is a bit much. If you wish to spend so much money on a car why not use online shopping then you can spend the time out polishing the car for the neighbour to admire :rolleyes:

I've never had a dent or anything from parking anywhere - maybe they should look at the way THEY park?? My aunty (mad maggie of mitcham!) would puposely damage someones car if they blocked her in.
I would never drem of such thing, i would just leave a not on the windscreen politely asking them to brush up on their parking skills!:o

wheeze

astonsmummy wrote:

maybe it's just me but i always look just incase

I do this too (sad I know)

Was looking at an older lady getting out of her car in a Parent and Toddler space the other day. Couldnt see a car seat.

She looked at me and my toddler and said`it's ok I have my baby with me`

.......her dog!

Just shook my head.

I also park at the back where's there more space, cant be bothered with seeing all those abusing the toddler spaces, so try my best not to look too often!

xzibit

chatta wrote:

I am wondering if people are getting too precious about their cars and lifes dings, all this talk of using two spaces etc is a bit much. If you wish to spend so much money on a car why not use online shopping then you can spend the time out polishing the car for the neighbour to admire :rolleyes:

Too precious? You mean that, if somebody puts a little dent in my £8000 car then I should just accept it? I think not. My g/f gets annoyed with me, because when we goto a car park, and there are no spaces at the end of a row where I can park right up to the kerb leaving the biggest gap possible between my car and the space next to it, I will leave and go to another car park.
Some people just think of a car as a tool to get form a to b, and don't care, and think other people don't care either. Well, I can tell you that some people do care. I have came back to previous parked cars, to find the person that has parked next to me has just opended their door straight into mine. Well, they came back to find a worse dent!!

I'm sorry, but I can park well. It was only last bank holiday, me and the g/f went to tesco's to get some lunch. Parked at the end of a row, near to the kerb leaving at least half a foot between the tyres and the white line.
A wa*$!£ in a convertable BMW parked right up next to the car (partly in our space) and had left it there. We had our bikes on the back as we had been for a ride, and the BMW was so close, the width of the bikes wheels wouldn't fit past the wall one side and the wing mirror of the BMW. Unfortunately, that day, a BMW lost it's wing mirror, as when trying to be folded in, it wasn't all that secure!! :eek:

This is one subject that gets me very annoyed!!

needaspirin

If all parking bays were wide enough nobody would have to squeeze out of their car. Partial blame to supermarkets for the dents!

Silent_Bob_3

hjb123 wrote:

It was put there to help people who need more space etc to get out of cars?

Maybe they should provide "extra fat git" spaces too along with 4x4 and people carrier spaces as well.

Then theres those that come in vans - maybe they can have their own spaces too?