Parking Disabled Spaces

[babsanderson]

Do you ever park in disabled parking spaces?

My DH has a blue badge and it seems so common for non disabled people to do this, especially when waiting in their car for a child to leave an activity. He just winds down his window and asks them to leave - they usually do. But it is annoying.

Shops don’t care. They have the spaces because they have to.

The ones that have the P&C spaces closer than the disabled spaces at least are honest about the fact they prioritise people that can end up spending more and more money in the store (hence encouraging people to bring their “can I have that?” kids shopping with them!).

If they could scrap the spaces and squeeze in extra regular size spaces I’d bet the vast majority of shops and supermarkets would.

My DD’s life will be drastically shortened (and curtailed while she is alive) by her condition as it is.

Not a cat in hells chance I’ll have her stuck in the house for 26 weeks a year every time her BB needs renewed because of ineptitude and cutbacks.

Even more irritating, is when you go into the supermarket and tell security and customer services that there are 5 cars parked in disabled bays (there are only 8 bays) with no blue badge displayed … and the response is “not a thing we can do, it’s not legally enforceable“ 🙄 No amount of further discussion made any difference whatsoever.

The answer is that blue badge spaces are a reasonable adjustment as per The Equality Act 2010, and failure to enforce them is disability discrimination.

However, DH wrote to the head office of a major supermarket and got nowhere - they cited lack of manpower to enforce it! We weren’t inclined to pursue it in court at the time, but hopefully the EHRC might one day?

Disabled spaces further away? Makes a lot of sense.... Not

All you need is a little bit of giving a fuck in your designs.

I used a car park once where the route to the disabled bays was through the entire car park, but they were right next to the entrance. Intrigued I asked the security guard what they did with non BB holders using them, and he said he didn't know, it had never happened.

Proof, if it were needed that BB space abusers are not just cunts. They are lazy cunts.

When our LA started charging for BB parking, abuse also disappeared overnight. I'm sure you can imagine my thoughts there too.