Because it's a lot more difficult for disabled people to walk or use public transport.
Of all the things to get your panties bunched over
Is this disabled parking space official?
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Because it's a lot more difficult for disabled people to walk or use public transport.
Of all the things to get your panties bunched over
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I'll have to see if I can get up there to take a proper picture and all will make sense.
If I started this thread without a picture everybody would be typing TTIUWP so I should have made it clear from the start that what you see on Street View is not what you see there.
If I started this thread without a picture everybody would be typing TTIUWP so I should have made it clear from the start that what you see on Street View is not what you see there.
Afaik, there are no free parking spots along there nor around the corner going into Charles St.
I fail to see how you did not spot that was a disabled only spot you linked (I know the spot without looking at google)
I fail to see how you did not spot that was a disabled only spot you linked (I know the spot without looking at google)
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Is the Chinese medicine place still there? As that'd be the thing that gave away why there would be a disabled bay there, to my mind anyway.
It's just one of those things you chalk up to experience anyway. The local council need to redo the paint on the box and wording in the road (where it should've been).
It's just one of those things you chalk up to experience anyway. The local council need to redo the paint on the box and wording in the road (where it should've been).
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They can't be very frequent users of the disabled badge then, because they can park for free even without a sign!
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Can people please read my posts properly?
I bought a ticket, there are ticket machines along there and I have parked there many times before WITH A TICKET.
The sign says 'Disabled Badge Holders Only, Free Parking'
This means people who aren't disabled have to pay - correct?
I never mentioned free parking spaces (only for disabled).
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So why does the sign say 'Disabled Badge Holders Only, Free Parking'?
Maybe because in some places they have to pay?
I know for a fact that my mates sometimes have to pay unless they find disabled parking space.
You are very wrong on that point.
Wasn't it established on page 1 that you had good grounds to fight it?:
iirc they cant just say "it had a white bay its just faded away".
Paying is the exception, not the rule - it's free parking unless stated otherwise.
I'm not as wrong as you, though, as you got a ticket for being abled bodied and pinching a disabled bay becuase you didn't read the sign
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The double yellows are there for a reason, why should disabled people be allowed to just ignore this reason? They provide disabled spaces that no one else can park in for christ's sake!
Can't you push her in a wheel chair from an 'able bodied' car park?
Because it's a lot more difficult for disabled people to walk or use public transport.
Of all the things to get your panties bunched over
That doesn't really answer my question. Why is parking free for some people and not others, in this world of equality?
Because some of these people can't walk more than 100 yards and might need to pop into a shop?
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So why does it actually state that it is free parking for disabled badge holders?
Surely by your definition it shouldn't say it?
Make your mind up?
or we could put it down to Stoke Council being backwards.
I've no idea what point you are making now. Yes, we have plenty. What we don't always have is a legitimate parking space within 100 yards of every shop.
Look, this isn't really up for arguement is it, thats the reason disabled people can park on double yellow lines. It's to aid access to where they are going.
You and me can walk from the carpark. They can't. So they can park on double yellows, but they still must ensure they dont create an obstruction or they can be ticketed and they must not park in areas where there is no loading. So they can only park in the same places a truck could park, for example.
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Why not just read what the government have to say about it?
There - the norm is that parking is free. Being charged for parking is very much an exception and is quite rare - even when it does occur, its mostly limited to off-street carparks.
When I saw the OP, I thought he meant he had parked with a blue badge outside the disabled box.
Seriously dude, how you misunderstood the sign I have no idea. It's fairly clear.
Having said that, however, the disabled bay should have been repainted after they resurfaced the road.
Seriously dude, how you misunderstood the sign I have no idea. It's fairly clear.
Having said that, however, the disabled bay should have been repainted after they resurfaced the road.
because i can park nearer on double yellows ??
Seriously, why should she have to walk further / me push her further just so as not to upset you because you're got some bee in your bonnet.