Disabled Parking Assessment

LimeLight

This is what i came face to face with when i went for my blue badge assessment on Friday.

wiccanlou

OMg that is worthy of being sent in to one of those magazines that find this funny just to get paid to pay for the parking you'll need cause you can't actually get up the stairs to the assessment centre to get the blue badge so you don't have to pay all parking charges!

Parva

It could be worse. I applied for my blue badge as a result of a hindquarter amputation (due to cancer). Translated, that means I lost my entire right leg and a damned big chunk of my backside too! Applied for the badge thinking it would be a forgone conclusion.....Bzzzzt, wrong.

So I attend this meeting and I'm asked to 'walk' down a corridor on my crutches. I only managed to get to the corridor when the poor girl realised the pain I was in and halted the test. I had the blue badge within a couple of days.

I do wonder what the criteria for 'disablity' is after that episode.

LimeLight

I eventually went via the traffic ramps.
The office is located on the 13th floor of a car park and the lift only goes as far as 11.

uponahill

Parva wrote: »

It could be worse. I applied for my blue badge as a result of a hindquarter amputation (due to cancer). Translated, that means I lost my entire right leg and a damned big chunk of my backside too! Applied for the badge thinking it would be a forgone conclusion.....Bzzzzt, wrong.

So I attend this meeting and I'm asked to 'walk' down a corridor on my crutches. I only managed to get to the corridor when the poor girl realised the pain I was in and halted the test. I had the blue badge within a couple of days.

I do wonder what the criteria for 'disablity' is after that episode.

I am so pleased that they made the right decision in your case.

uponahill

It does make a change to see that something is being done about the widespread abuse of the Blue Badge scheme.

How many times do we see people getting out of a car after putting up a BB and appear to be perfectly fit.

A BB should only be used when the person to whom it is issued to is present in the vehicle. There is nothing stopping an able bodied driver pulling in and letting out the disabled person, then finding a car park to park in as all other motorists do.

It has become that bad in my Tesco store car park that nobody obeys the disabled bays anymore.
Last Friday out of 46 spaces, only 7 were showing a BB! And to top it all I watched one young lady get out of her Volvo 4x4, go to the back of the vehicle, open the rear bootlid, collect up at least 5 'bags for life' AND put a haversack on her back. Then she walked away without a care in the world. Why, maybe because it was raining and she wanted to park close to the main doors.

The BB scheme is a joke. In my town if we take it that the BB brigade are all disabled, we must have near on 45% of the towns population that are disabled.

This explosion of BB's came about when the council decided to charge for all on street parking. Residents pay £375 a year for one space outside their home.

dori2o

uponahill wrote: »

It does make a change to see that something is being done about the widespread abuse of the Blue Badge scheme.

How many times do we see people getting out of a car after putting up a BB and appear to be perfectly fit.

A BB should only be used when the person to whom it is issued to is present in the vehicle. There is nothing stopping an able bodied driver pulling in and letting out the disabled person, then finding a car park to park in as all other motorists do.

It has become that bad in my Tesco store car park that nobody obeys the disabled bays anymore.
Last Friday out of 46 spaces, only 7 were showing a BB! And to top it all I watched one young lady get out of her Volvo 4x4, go to the back of the vehicle, open the rear bootlid, collect up at least 5 'bags for life' AND put a haversack on her back. Then she walked away without a care in the world. Why, maybe because it was raining and she wanted to park close to the main doors.

The BB scheme is a joke. In my town if we take it that the BB brigade are all disabled, we must have near on 45% of the towns population that are disabled.

This explosion of BB's came about when the council decided to charge for all on street parking. Residents pay £375 a year for one space outside their home.

You are aware that not all disabilities are visible? Or are you just another ignoramus with their self important views on the disabled?

stefos

uponahill wrote: »

How many times do we see people getting out of a car after putting up a BB and appear to be perfectly fit.

It's amazing how therapeutic a shopping trolly is...;)

uponahill

dori2o wrote: »

You are aware that not all disabilities are visible? Or are you just another ignoramus with their self important views on the disabled?

To get a BB you have to show that YOU cannot walk or virtually cannot walk! A young lady with that many empty bags and a haversack is not what I would say that would fall into that category.

If she was bringing a disabled person, then there would be no need to park in the bay. Just drop the disabled person off and park elsewhere.
If she was doing the shopping for the disabled person she should also park in a normal place.

Those bays are for only when the disabled person actually parks their car there.
All other times they can be dropped off and picked up. Thereby leaving the spaces vacant for others.
I even know of one person that 'borrows' their mum's BB, does the shopping for her and parks in a disabled bay - whilst mum is sat in front of the tele at home!!!

But my point was that only 7 vehicles displayed a BB anyhow with 39 others that didn't!

LimeLight

Supermarket bb spaces aren't a legal requirement and they have to rely on the respect and common sense of drivers.

wiccanlou

At Lakeside shopping centre if you park in one and don't have a valid blue badge or a temporary one from the shopmobility you get a £25 parking notice :-)