It's not always closer, but the benefit is that i actually have enough room to open the doors wide enough to get a child into a car seat and strap them in, rather than hoping and praying in a normal space that whoever parks next to me will actually park straight and equally between the lines.
Do you regularly park in disabled bays?
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It's not always closer, but the benefit is that i actually have enough room to open the doors wide enough to get a child into a car seat and strap them in, rather than hoping and praying in a normal space that whoever parks next to me will actually park straight and equally between the lines.
My Mrs has a blue badge, can no longer drive and has to use a wheelchair. She can't self propel and relies on me to push it. The rule is simple for me. If she's getting out of the car then I park in a disabled space, if not I use a normal one. We get a lot of filthy looks from the older generation, they seem to think the spaces are for old people, not disabled ones. In most normal parking spaces it's impossible to squeeze a wheelchair between 2 cars, never mind have the car door open fully to get her out. It's a bit of a fiasco in some car parks with me having to move the car in and out of a space to get her out and back in whilst other people are trying to drive around you and park in the space you're still using. Extremely rare we park on double yellows, they are there for a reason so chances are even if entitled to via a blue badge that the car will be causing a problem in some way. What really annoys me are people parking in front of dropped curbs even when there's markings in front of it indicating that it can't be parked in front of! You don't realise how high some curbs are until you're trying to get an adult in a wheelchair up or down one without tipping them out. This is a regular occurrence at our local GP practice. Even the bloody Dr's park there and complaining has no result. Dr needing to park his car trumps disabled access.
Our local tesco has made the mistake of putting a whole row of disabled spaces in front of the cash machines so of course every tom, dick and harry parks in them whilst they go and get money out. What people need to think about is that it's not necessarily the distance from the store that's the issue, it's the physical space that some disabled people require to get in and out of the car.
Our local tesco has made the mistake of putting a whole row of disabled spaces in front of the cash machines so of course every tom, dick and harry parks in them whilst they go and get money out. What people need to think about is that it's not necessarily the distance from the store that's the issue, it's the physical space that some disabled people require to get in and out of the car.
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Never park in disabled bays.
I am always curious why parent and child spaces are nearer to the entrance as well. Surely they should be as far away from the front to help deal with our child obesity problems. Would help mums shift those last few lbs of baby weight too.
I am always curious why parent and child spaces are nearer to the entrance as well. Surely they should be as far away from the front to help deal with our child obesity problems. Would help mums shift those last few lbs of baby weight too.
They're actually "accessible" toilets, and it's fine for anyone to use them.
I use them for exclusively if they're available because 9 times out of 10 regular toilets are utterly grotty, whereas special effort is put into making sure the accessible ones are clean at tidy due to the increased risk of those who might use them.
I use them for exclusively if they're available because 9 times out of 10 regular toilets are utterly grotty, whereas special effort is put into making sure the accessible ones are clean at tidy due to the increased risk of those who might use them.
Never, I'm not disabled. My dad has a blue disable pass, as he's partly slighted and walks with a stick, even when I go anywhere with him; I try to find a normal space first.
Where I work, onsite to a city hospital, idiots park on double yellow lines and think they are entitled to as they have a blue pass. I experience it daily fully able drivers swearing at traffic officers as they been given a ticket meanwhile they been blocking ambulances and other hospital vehicles from working.
It's a system that is getting abused, but what can you do.
Where I work, onsite to a city hospital, idiots park on double yellow lines and think they are entitled to as they have a blue pass. I experience it daily fully able drivers swearing at traffic officers as they been given a ticket meanwhile they been blocking ambulances and other hospital vehicles from working.
It's a system that is getting abused, but what can you do.
Wife has a blue badge so yes, when she's in the car. Yesterday I saw an tarted up Impreza without a blue badge taking up two disabled bays at the local hospital...
If I'd ever thought about keying a car it would have been that one.
If I'd ever thought about keying a car it would have been that one.
Keying the car is significantly worse...
I've done it a few times when there's the usual situation of a full car park but 1000000 empty disabled spaces. But 99% of the time I park right at the back away from everyone else so my car doesn't get damaged by idiots opening their doors into it.
This is one of those things that really grinds my gears, seeing fit and healthy people pulling up in disabled spaces just because they're too ******* lazy to walk 10 yards from another bay
This again. What does a disability look like? It isn't necessarily an obvious physical impairment.
I had a big argument and lost my temper with a lady pushing someone in a wheelchair over this. I was at a motorway cafe with my daughter who was around 5yrs old. I didn't want to take her into the mens with me because she was getting older and I didn't feel she was old enough to go into the ladies on her own. So I took her into the disabled/accessible toilet.
When we came out I got a barrage of abuse from a lady waiting outside with an elderly lady in a wheelchair. I wouldn't have minded her politely questioning it but the attitude from her and her sense of entitlement was terrible. She was very rude and very aggressive. It's one of the few times I've lost my temper with anyone and shouted them down. I simply wasn't going to take that kind of abuse from anyone. The wheelchair bound lady in her care seemed quite ebarrassed by it. My daughter had just as much right as anyone to use that toilet.
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Only when either or both of my parents are in the car with me as they are both blue badge holders.
People parking in disabled bays who are able bodied just represent the wider issue in my view. People are selfish, and many think that rules do not apply to them. "I'm only popping in for some fags, I will be 2 mins". I don't care, park elsewhere.
I put them in the same category as people who queue jump, or take up a family table in any given eatery when there is only one or two of them.
Funny thing is, I bet if a traffic warden was standing there, none of these idiots would use the disabled bay. Selfish cowards, through and through
People parking in disabled bays who are able bodied just represent the wider issue in my view. People are selfish, and many think that rules do not apply to them. "I'm only popping in for some fags, I will be 2 mins". I don't care, park elsewhere.
I put them in the same category as people who queue jump, or take up a family table in any given eatery when there is only one or two of them.
Funny thing is, I bet if a traffic warden was standing there, none of these idiots would use the disabled bay. Selfish cowards, through and through