disabled and parents parking

Jomo

lucylucky wrote: »

No, the current P&C spaces could be divided in half resulting in more "ordinary" spaces. None would be wider than currently.

Easy.

Happy to help.

Well that's your suggestion....not mine!

I stand by what I said

lucylucky

Jomo wrote: »

Well that's your suggestion....not mine!

I stand by what I said

Good for you.

fluffnutter

Just to shake things up a bit more... if you are disabled you can ask the highways agency to paint a disabled bay outside your house (which are enforceable and you can be fined if you park in one without a blue badge). But people then move, don't inform the council and the spaces remain. The new owners leave the space because it's handy - they can always park outside their own house!

But...the government has just launched a new measure to increase local council revenue by insisting on more vigilance around such parking offences. Each local authority will have to submit details of the number of disabled bays painted on roads and will in return be given a target of how much revenue they must make in parking fines. There are no associated plans to paint out disabled bays that are no longer required and the rate at which these are growing increases by 6% each year.

By 2015, 96% of residential parking will be disabled only, and everyone (unless you're disabled) will be fined for parking outside their own home! Neat huh?!

lucylucky

fluffnutter wrote: »

Just to shake things up a bit more... if you are disabled you can ask the highways agency to paint a disabled bay outside your house (which are enforceable and you can be fined if you park in one without a blue badge). But people then move, don't inform the council and the spaces remain. The new owners leave the space because it's handy - they can always park outside their own house!

But...the government has just launched a new measure to increase local council revenue by insisting on more vigilance around such parking offences. Each local authority will have to submit details of the number of disabled bays painted on roads and will in return be given a target of how much revenue they must make in parking fines. There are no associated plans to paint out disabled bays that are no longer required and the rate at which these are growing increases by 6% each year.

By 2015, 96% of residential parking will be disabled only, and everyone (unless you're disabled) will be fined for parking outside their own home! Neat huh?!

What?

Is ever road in the land about to get double yellows or something?

jblack_2

fluffnutter wrote: »

By 2015, 96% of residential parking will be disabled only, and everyone (unless you're disabled) will be fined for parking outside their own home! Neat huh?!

That won't be a problem. We'll all have blue badges by then:rotfl:.

shays_mum

J Black "Blue badges are too easy to get and when some people have them they believe it makes them better than others.[/QUOTE]"

I can assure you, they are not easy to 'get'!!, it doesn't make ppl believe they are better, maybe they are in so much pain - they can't think beyond that.

Jomo

shays_mum wrote: »

J Black "Blue badges are too easy to get and when some people have them they believe it makes them better than others.

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I can assure you, they are not easy to 'get'!!, it doesn't make ppl believe they are better, maybe they are in so much pain - they can't think beyond that. [/QUOTE]

There is some truth in that they are easy to aquire...whether that might be because they know someone with a blue badge and they just 'borrow it' to suit their own needs and not the blue badge holder.

Our local paper has been known to 'name and shame' such people on quite a few occasions so it does happen quite a lot!

jblack_2

shays_mum wrote: »

I can assure you, they are not easy to 'get'!!, it doesn't make ppl believe they are better, maybe they are in so much pain - they can't think beyond that.

Or maybe they are just plain cantankerous.

I can assure you they are easy to 'get'. I can go to my Father now and get one without trouble. My grandmother has one for nothing more than being older, she freely admits it, lol.

LilacPixie

Atomic - what do you drive that you cannot squeeze it into a regular asda spot??


I had to fight tooth and nail for my blue badge, maybe its an age thing. Old and there you go, young and you obviously don't need it.

unholyangel

jblack wrote: »

It has been mentioned several times that there is no need for a blue badge to use the disabled space.

You are assuming it is a private car park and not owned by the local authority - and yes, you do get supermarkets on council owned carparks. However, maybe they're not so ignorant like half the people on this thread and wouldnt use a disabled bay without having a blue badge.

jblack wrote: »

So it'd be an able bodied person? Why do they need more space?

Sorry, i lost my psychic abilities late last year. Please try again.

jblack wrote: »

But their quite happy for people to stare at them to see if they have genuine children?

No, i would imagine that they're parking there for a reason. Instead of everyone ranting about it, why not satisfy your curiousity and ask one of them next time. Go on, i dare you. :rotfl:

jblack wrote: »

Then why park in a P&C space? Why not leave that space for those more in need?

I dont class a parent as "more in need". See above answers #2 and #3.

jblack wrote: »

Having a blue badge seems to give the owner the right to park where ever they please. If their specially assigned spaces are free then why can't they use them? If they decide to use the P&C space instead then I'd think they were the ignorant one.

Blue badges are too easy to get and when some people have them they believe it makes them better than others.

No, you're still the ignorant one for assuming they do so without a reason and just because they fancy it. And instead of asking them why they have done so, you assume they're just doing it for kicks and mouth off on here about it.

I dont know about your own local authority but mine doesnt just hand out blue badges to all and sundry. If yours does, maybe you should complain to them. You seem to be good at complaining

Or maybe do as i advised and ask them next time. It's what i would do, instead of just assuming.

And i know parking "fines" issued by private companies may not be enforced like ones issued from the council or police but they can still refer the "fine" to a debt collector......and have done so:)