Blitz on Disabled Parking Cheats by Supermarkets

jetta_wales

bifold wrote: »

Have you thought of using hospital transport for the 80 year old,door to door service with trained staff.:D

Sure and screw the vastly increased expense to the tax payer so long as the "my dissability's worse than yours!" crew are happy that the parking spaces are only for them.

Or we could quit with that silly game and accept that a great many disabilities have a great many varying needs and no one dissabled person should be made to justify themselves to another just because they only understand their own needs and not other people's.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Hastobe_Katt wrote: »

Our local authority has stopped free parking for blue badge holders - which I completely agree with. Blue badges are for accessible parking not free parking. IMHO it's the free parking that encourages blue badge fraud / theft. Financial needs should be addressed by other benefits. Additional financial needs due to the impact of your disability by DLA. I also think the badge should have the holders photo on the front where it is visible when the badge is in use / displayed.

I disagree with linking the blue badge to a HRM DLA award so that only those on DLA are eligible. I don't need the income from DLA but why should I be penalised and denied a blue badge because I am being responsible and acknowledging that (imho) it would be wrong for me to claim it. I had an independent medical assessment for my blue badge. (Plus, as someone has already pointed out, it can take a very long time for a DLA decsion to be made - 8 months plus.)

It is actually ok for a BB holder to park in a mother and child space if there are no disabled bays available. I asked for clarification on this and was advised by the manager of our local supermarket. Conversely, however, mothers and children cannot park in disabled bays.

If you are a disabled passenger in the car - but you do not intend to leave the vehicle then the driver cannot park in a disabled bay.

Don't judge BB holders by their apparent 'mobility'. Blue badges are also awarded to those with mental health issues. My sister (a nurse) has had abuse on a number of occasions when escorting patients who appear very mobile but have serious mental health problems.

Finally, I don't know who designs the car park layouts but I have seen disabled bays near the entrance but miles from the trolley park; in a location where you have to traverse a kerb to get to and from the store; and bays that are no wider than a normal bay! I have also seen mother and baby parking positioned closer to the store than disabled bays. Mother and baby parking only needs to be in a location where there is no need to cross the road to access the store.

Thank you Hastobe_Katt, a sensible, thought through contribution to the debate.

stefos

STOCKWIRE wrote: »

Maybe not ideal but what stops a blind person walking across a carpark when accompanied by a carer. But hey you carry on. I just find it very sad that we only think of ourselves and sod everyone else. We all have our crosses to bear, but remember there is always someone with a heavier one !.

Er, that's good, then you needn't give the blind a BB at all!

Carry on.... :T

dori2o

jetta_wales wrote: »

Stand in one spot at the entrance of that busy hospital or the supermarket with a blindfold on while loads of people brush past you or push past you when you can't see any of them or know when the next person will pass or how close they will be to you. Stand there like that for 30 minutes while your carer queues in the car park or just drives round in circles waiting for a space (our hospital's a nightmare), and see how lost and vulnerable you feel in that situation. Then think how an 80 year old would feel in that same situation, with full macular degeneration.

Unless you plan on making little safe dissabled people waiting rooms for us to sit in while we wait for our lifts then I think the rest of us fully eligible BB holders will continue to use our badges whenever we feel the need to thanks

Quite true.

I have noticed since I got a walking stick that I now seem to be completely invisible to other people.

They constantly knock into me or walk into me, or huff and puff when they can't get past me as I walk very slowly.

One woman in the supermarket the other week said I was an inconvenience whilst my daughter pushed me about in the stores wheelchair as she couldn't get to what she wanted. The fact that I was looking at something at the time meant nothing to her. I was just 'in her way'.

So it's not just the disabled who need to change the 'sod everyone else' attitude, the able bodied need to take a far greater look at themselves.

lyniced

leedsmodus wrote: »

do what i do , get some sheets of paper with a sticky back for your printer. print out lots of stickers advising how ignorant and pathetic they are for abusing the spaces, keep them in the car for happy sticking on windscreens.

Or, do what i did last week i blocked a car in whom was using a disabled space did my shopping. my car reg came over the tannoy to go to cust service desk. the car owner was displeased, so i advised yes i would happily move my vehicle once i had done my shopping and had a bite to eat in the cafe. The car driver make abusive so i smiled back to wind him up. The store threw the car driver out the store and police were called. Ok they made me move my car but it was priceless watching the other driver rant. Perhaps he may of even learnt a lesson
I will certainly block cars in again.

Wow!!!! I think I'll stick to the windscreen stickers!