Parking in mother and child space

bigbulldog

mildred1978 wrote: »

So how else would you get these kids out?

Do what we had to do when our children were small park in normal bays as the only wide parking bays available were for disabled parking.

Sorry,but your needs to get your children out of the car come no where close to a disabled driver.

As I have said before you have a choice to have children ...you just don't get one when you have a disability.

mildred1978

bigbulldog wrote: »

Do what we had to do when our children were small park in normal bays as the only wide parking bays available were for disabled parking.

Sorry,but your needs to get your children out of the car come no where close to a disabled driver.

As I have said before you have a choice to have children ...you just don't get one when you have a disability.

I would guess you had your children a long time ago. When there were fewer cars on the eoad and spaces were bigger?

So because I chose to have a child I shouldn't go out? Or if I do I should just leave him in the car because using one of the parent and child spaces offends disabled people?

Or I shouldn't mind disabled people parking in spaces not meant for them?

Or disabled people can do what they like because they didn't choose to be disabled?

Or perhaps only the disabled should be allowed to have big/wide cars?

Richie-from-the-Boro

mildred1978

- you don't have to park across 2 spaces, you do have a choice, you are just belligerent
- you are correct, your warped self serving version of 'needs' to get your children out of the car, comes no where close to a disabled drivers needs
- """because I chose to have a child I shouldn't go out?"" - more silly deliberate misuse and abuse of the debate
- which poster said because you chose to have a child you shouldn't go out, who said that ?
- of course you shouldn't mind Blue Badge holders correctly parking in spaces not meant for them !
- disabled people do not do what they like they are heavily regulated by the the LA's / central government and the European parliament
- any one on this island can have B]want[/B any car of any width they choose including your good self, including the B]need[/B disabled

Is disabled-ism like racism, sexism, homophobia or age-ism ?

Well that depends on any individuals point of view, at any point in time. Of course its a fact that everyone at some point becomes this nasty disabled person you appear to loathe so much

mildred1978, it for sure that you too will become one of the people you loathe and despise - one day - and will yourself become the 60+ year old target of disabled-ism or age-ism, or god forbid someone individual half your age like a 34 year old version of mildred1978.

Lum

I thought the term was "ableism" and yes it's just like any other -ism.

Oh and parking spaces have not gotten smaller, all that's happened is that certain models of car have gotten a lot bigger. If the combination of the car's width and the need to get a child out is causing you problems in normal spaces then yes, perhaps you did get the wrong car, maybe a Peugeot 1007 with it's sliding doors, if you really need a big car.

Taking this to it's logical conclusion, if you chose to buy a Hummer H2 to ferry yourself and your kids about in, and then find that it barely fits into a parking space should you expect any sympathy and accommodations from people? No, you'd expect people to point and laugh.

The same doesn't apply when you need the space to get a wheelchair in and out. There really is nothing you can do about the space requirements for this as the entire wheelchair needs to be able to fit alongside the car in order to do a transfer from the seat.

Riversong

I looked at the sign today that states the rules for mom and baby parking. Anyone parking in the spaces must be travelling with a child under the age of 12 in a booster/car seat. No where does it say 'disabled overflow'

Likewise the disabled spots state theyre for disabled blue badge holders only, not general parking.

For the record i got a child space (for once), all the disabled spaces were full. too

Lum

But it's a supermarket car park, so all these rules are completely unenforcible anyway

Riversong

So by that logic i can use disabled spaces?

The_mangler

This cropped up on Friday when we visited Macdonalds. Only two disabled spots and no Parent & child spots meant a woman decided to park her car with her 3 children in a blue badge spot, the other one was occupied so what were we meant to do? We drove around for a while hoping one would become free but to no avail. We could have parked across two bays but then we wouldnt have managed the walk to the restaurant. Now if I had just been looking for a larger space because I had my children with me, a double space anywhere would have been fine. my kids legs work OK. But because of disability, we had to park as near as possible to the entrance, giving us no option of parking elsewhere. So this is my rather long winded way of saying I feel its OK for a disabled driver to use a parent & child space but not vice versa.

Riversong

That's fine but don't be surprised if you get a ticket for not having an under 12 with you (assuming you dont). I do not condone mums parking in disabled spaces or visca versa, just the rules.

bigbulldog

The_mangler wrote: »

So this is my rather long winded way of saying I feel its OK for a disabled driver to use a parent & child space but not vice versa.

Well said.:)


The reason I agree with the above is that the parents and children are able'd bodied and are able to walk far easier than a disabled person with a mobility problem.