Is parking in a disabled spot ever ok?
Discussion
I go to Tesco's every night at 00:15 after I've finished work - the car park is usually empty but even then I don't park in the disabled spaces which are literally outside the front door. Even when its pouring with rain I won't do it, even though I know there won't be a swarm of blue badgers arriving at that time of night.
Am I the only one? Or do you consider that ok to park there at the sort of time?
EDIT: Apart from people who are legitimately disabled!
Am I the only one? Or do you consider that ok to park there at the sort of time?
EDIT: Apart from people who are legitimately disabled!
Edited by TREMAiNE on Monday 20th January 14:30
Parking in a disabled space is absolutely fine, so long as you are disabled or have a disabled person with you in the car who needs to use the space.
I would never challenge someone I thought was wrongly using a disabled space because you can't always see what's wrong with someone just by looking at them.
I would never challenge someone I thought was wrongly using a disabled space because you can't always see what's wrong with someone just by looking at them.
My wife drives me about as I'm disabled and we have to park with sufficient space on the near side for me to get in and out. For reasons that I do not understand, the local Tesco's has P&C spaces right outside the entrance but disabled parking about 50m further on. We use the P&C space as I have great difficulty walking more than 20m.
didnotbat said:
My wife drives me about as I'm disabled and we have to park with sufficient space on the near side for me to get in and out. For reasons that I do not understand, the local Tesco's has P&C spaces right outside the entrance but disabled parking about 50m further on. We use the P&C space as I have great difficulty walking more than 20m.
So on that basis, you're happy for able bodies folk to park in the disabled bays? didnotbat said:
. For reasons that I do not understand, the local Tesco's has P&C spaces right outside the entrance but disabled parking about 50m further on.
Disabled spaces are provided by law, but parents make up the bigger sales volume for supermarkets so they're allocated the best spots. I don't believe there is a regulation regarding how close the dis bays need to be to the store, just that they have to provide x number of them. pimpin gimp said:
didnotbat said:
. For reasons that I do not understand, the local Tesco's has P&C spaces right outside the entrance but disabled parking about 50m further on.
Disabled spaces are provided by law, but parents make up the bigger sales volume for supermarkets so they're allocated the best spots. I don't believe there is a regulation regarding how close the dis bays need to be to the store, just that they have to provide x number of them. Sorry for the thread hi-jack btw, I'm sure disabled vs P&T spaces has been done to death on here :-)
renrut said:
mrmr96 said:
PS - parent and child spots are free for the taking IMO.
As long as you don't mind when said parent dings your car with a door trying to gain access to huge unweildy legal requirement baby seats...Depending on the time of day I have parked in one of the 40 disabled spaces that are almost always empty outside my local Tesco.
The sad thing is there are a large number of people who have blue badges that take the piss to.
I feel it is wrong that someone who is f
king obese gets a blue badge because their fat legs can't transport them more than 10metres yet people with severe mental handicaps like autism but are deemed able body do not get a blue badge.The existing system fails to consider how dangerous it can be for a client dealing with a client who has absolutely no road sense, no sense of danger and not observant enough to know that you should constantly be looking for cars on the move etc is.
Guilty.
Younger brother was knocked off His motorbike a few years ago, broke his leg in several places, and was using crutches, we took a trip to Tesco to grab a drink and a magazine, one night around 12, car park was very empty I left five empty disabled bays then parked in the sixth.
no harm done imo.
Younger brother was knocked off His motorbike a few years ago, broke his leg in several places, and was using crutches, we took a trip to Tesco to grab a drink and a magazine, one night around 12, car park was very empty I left five empty disabled bays then parked in the sixth.
no harm done imo.
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