Blue Badges becoming useless?

Enterprise_1701C

Danday wrote: »

No I don't think so it had a funny shaped badge like a letter T certainly not a star shape.
There just found it, a tesla whatever that is.

Ah, nice new all electric, does all sorts and that is probably the least of it lol

Starrystarrynight1

I do think people are becoming less respectful of disabled parking bays, especially in supermarkets/retail parks etc where they know the 'parking charge notices' can't be enforced, if there is even a warden patrolling at all.

Oddjob

I am relatively new to BB parking having only got my badge last October. It really annoys me that often people with new cars and no badge park in the bays so that they don't get their cars scratched. Or people just park in there with no badge because they are just to idle to walk. Don't they realise that BB spaces are not only because we have had to prove we can't walk far, but also because we need the extra space to be able to open the door wide enough to get in and out. I well remember when I was waiting for my badge, having to stand in agony for over half an hour because I had had to park in an ordinary space and someone had come later than me and had parked just a few inches from my door as obviously, no one was using their passenger door at the time.
Some supermarkets also annoy me in that the P&C spaces are a lot nearer than the disabled spaces to the door. I have no objection to P&C having wider bays, they need them for pushchairs etc, but often its people with teenage children that are using them, they don't need them, and to be honest, if you are young enough and fit enough to have children, you don't need to be right by the door.

Danday

Also what annoys me oddjob is when after parking their car in the BB bay the driver sits in the car with the badge on display waiting for the passenger to return laden with shopping bags in a trolley.