Charging for parent & child parking

Spendless

I'd have welcomed the idea of paying £1 for a 12 month permit so I could use P & C spaces when mine were in car seats and needed my help unbuckling their seat belts. So many people without children were using them, that hopefully the charge would put them off.

Ames

As a blue badge holder if any supermarket offered to enforce the bays* for a nominal yearly fee they'd have my full time business.

I imagine that the permit gains the shop more business than it loses.

*yes I know that they're legally uneforcible but that's no excuse for not trying.

liney

Lotus-eater wrote: »

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.

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I don't wish to seem argumentative, but when you park your car it is the driver who decides which side of the car is 'curb side' unless you are parking on a one way street. You could always choose to park with the drivers side curbside in the same way you currently choose not to.

Lotus-eater

Tina20 wrote: »

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!

OK, I know some people on here are just bitter and complain about anything, but I am surprised that people are bothered at all.
It's like ME ME ME ME, must be about me, no one else must be allowed anything I'm not. Wah Wah

Anyway, I'm just a bit surprised at the small mindedness.

P+C parking have been a godsend to me btw, as I have a bad back and it's difficult to pick up heavy things at arms length, especially heavy wriggling things, we bought a higher car that helped, but being able to open the car door fully is just brilliant.
And for my OH as well, although she hasn't got a bad back, my DS is a hefty little boy and she struggles with him sometimes.

Lotus-eater

liney wrote: »

I don't wish to seem argumentative, but when you park your car it is the driver who decides which side of the car is 'curb side' unless you are parking on a one way street. You could always choose to park with the drivers side curbside in the same way you currently choose not to.

Not really, the correct way to park is with the traffic. In fact I think it's illegal to park against traffic at night.

Yes I could do it, but having always been what I consider a good driver, choose not to.

Spendless

People don't all live in the same town/city/village, some are more populated than others, some have a larger share of people of people doing on-line orders, some have ample and wider spaces, some have just loads of different supermarkets to choose from, some have very little and different people shop at different times. I have a totally different experience about the choice of where |I can park my car if I can say go shopping on a Tuesday at 10am than if I go on a Friday night or a Saturday morning.

liney

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Not really, the correct way to park is with the traffic. In fact I think it's illegal to park against traffic at night.

Yes I could do it, but having always been what I consider a good driver, choose not to.

It is indeed illegal to park against traffic flow at night, but considering we are talking about getting very small children in and out of cars, I would have thought the effect on my practical advice was minimal.

Lotus-eater

liney wrote: »

It is indeed illegal to park against traffic flow at night, but considering we are talking about getting very small children in and out of cars, I would have thought the effect on my practical advice was minimal.

That's fine, I just choose not to.

rpc

liney wrote: »

It is indeed illegal to park against traffic flow at night, but considering we are talking about getting very small children in and out of cars, I would have thought the effect on my practical advice was minimal.

So you would park, get the child out, then turn around while the child waits on the pavement?

Choosing 'kerb side' doesn't help when you have 3 car seats across the back row either (2 group 0 and 1 group 1)!

The other issue that they help with is you can put the pram/pushchair beside the car and not at the back where some twit might hit it in an attempt to shave 0.2 seconds off their search for a parking space.

Again, I find them very useful (and I too lack a uterus). If you don't find them useful, feel free not to use them. We cope fine when they are all occupied or none are present, but when we can use one it makes life easier. Or should we all struggle by using horse and carriage because the world coped before the invention of the car?

Padstow

The original post was complaining that a £1.00 charge was being made for a P+C place for a whole year.
For Heaven's sake OP get over the shock of parting with a quid and enjoy your extra space.