Charging for parent & child parking

rpc

I would happily pay a small amount for a permit if it meant spaces were patrolled! Abuse of these spaces really irritates me.

The "special spaces" are blummin useful when you have very small kids (especially as parking spaces seem to be shrinking these days". I'd rather that they were put somewhere other than right outside the door though. That would mean less competition for them and as long as the baby trolleys are nearby there is no problem with a walk to the door.

PolishBigSpender

mjgreen60 wrote: »

I admit it was only £1 and so not a hideous amount of money but it is the principle behind it that annoys me. This is for a 'permit' that allows us to use the P&C parking for 12 months but we still have to pay the exit fee for the car park.

It's 1 pound a YEAR! Don't you have bigger worries in your life?

Pay and enjoy the P&C space or don't pay and park somewhere else. Simple.

Lotus-eater

dizziblonde wrote: »

handy convenience - yep, some kind of mummy divine right as this generation regard getting a child in and out of a car (or on a bus lol) as some kind of herculean labour - nope.

Bit more than a handy convenience.
Have you tried getting a small child in and out of a car seat with the sizes of parking spaces these days? It's impossible in some car parks. Difficult enough to get yourself out without banging the next car door.

Once kids can get themselves into a car seat, the need for them mostly goes away. But until then I think they are an essential in alot of car parks.

Person_one

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Bit more than a handy convenience.
Have you tried getting a small child in and out of a car seat with the sizes of parking spaces these days? It's impossible in some car parks. Difficult enough to get yourself out without banging the next car door.

Once kids can get themselves into a car seat, the need for them mostly goes away. But until then I think they are an essential in alot of car parks.

It can't possibly be a real need, considering how recent an invention they are and how well people managed before they existed.

Therefore, its a convenience.

dizziblonde

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Bit more than a handy convenience.
Have you tried getting a small child in and out of a car seat with the sizes of parking spaces these days? It's impossible in some car parks. Difficult enough to get yourself out without banging the next car door.

Considering I have a 12 week old daughter... yes, I think I have. Funnily I manage it just fine and can generally get parked normally, in and out of Tesco while various people are still doing the loop waiting for a precious P+C space to become available.

Was wondering when that line would come out.

liney

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Bit more than a handy convenience.
Have you tried getting a small child in and out of a car seat with the sizes of parking spaces these days? It's impossible in some car parks. Difficult enough to get yourself out without banging the next car door.

Once kids can get themselves into a car seat, the need for them mostly goes away. But until then I think they are an essential in alot of car parks.

I always put the car seat on the drivers side which allows you to park slightly off centre and gives some extra room on one side. Older children can climb over out of the same door too. Obviously you have to be wary not to go overboard or the car next to you can't open the door

GracieP

Person_one wrote: »

It can't possibly be a real need, considering how recent an invention they are and how well people managed before they existed.

Therefore, its a convenience.

They only started appearing when carseats of a specific safety standard became mandatory. People managed well before they existed as they didn't have carseats.

Person_one

GracieP wrote: »

They only started appearing when carseats of a specific safety standard became mandatory. People managed well before they existed as they didn't have carseats.

Carseats have been around a lot longer than parent and child spaces!

Lotus-eater

Person_one wrote: »

It can't possibly be a real need, considering how recent an invention they are and how well people managed before they existed.

Therefore, its a convenience.

Well I don't think it's just a convenience, I don't know how people managed before, all I know is, if I've got to manage a toddler, a trolley full of stuff, getting the trolley to a bay, getting said toddler into his seat...... I would prefer to be next to the shop and have a wide enough space so I'm not struggling.

dizziblonde wrote: »

Considering I have a 12 week old daughter... yes, I think I have. Funnily I manage it just fine and can generally get parked normally, in and out of Tesco while various people are still doing the loop waiting for a precious P+C space to become available.

Was wondering when that line would come out.

What line, do you mean me asking if you'd tried it? How terrible, a question.

liney wrote: »

I always put the car seat on the drivers side which allows you to park slightly off centre and gives some extra room on one side. Older children can climb over out of the same door too. Obviously you have to be wary not to go overboard or the car next to you can't open the door

That is a possibility in some car parks, but we always put the car seat on the curb side, merely because it's alot easier and safer to take them out when I park on the road.



I'm often amazed at the indignation of others, when someone might just get a tiny bit more than you of something. In this case a couple of feet of tarmac to help them when they have a child.
Pathetic, it's not like it's hurting you.

Tina20

Oh dear OP. You will find that no-one this forum approves of P&C parking.
'we managed in my day'
'it's not any more safe'
'just lazy parents'

I've heard them all. So you have opened quite a can of worms!
A pound seems reasonable though, better than finding no spaces and having to lug kids, car seats and bags across a busy car park