To think that P&C spaces in supermarket car parks

[Braganza]

AIBU to think that where there is a pedestrian pavement down the middle of a supermarket car park, it would make far more sense to have the parent and child parking in a well lit area further away from the entrance. This would mean that the spaces would not get clogged up by drivers without children too lazy to find a space, and in some car parks could be in an area with less traffic.

My local asda has some P and C spaces closer to the shop. A local morrisions have rows of P and C spaces and rows of Disabled spaces working away from the store meaning some P and C spaces are closer that disabled spaces.

I have no issue with people using P and C spaces if free BUT there is no reason for them not to be at the back of the store and people really do need to realise that it is perfectly possible for a parent to carry on without the use of such a space.

We can hardly ever get a disabled space.

So here..and in some places..there needs to be more.

Have never ever got one in Inverness for some reason.

So they arent always lying empty everywhere.

Which make it worse when chancers park in them then affect a fake limp when they see you watching.

I wish they always lay empty and waiting for us.

No Claudius, I didn't, I said 'BY YOUR REASONING' your mother shouldn't exist..

Because you said my children shouldn't exist.

Which is ridiculous.

And not all blue badge users have wheelchairs and mobility aids either.

We need to be near shop as we have to hang on to DD who thinks its funny to run into traffic.

I didn't say your children shouldn't exist. You could get a child out of a car in a normal space if you tried. I can. Others can.

Assuming that supermarkets want family shoppers, I take it that it's not controversial that it's more convenient to have spaces designed for them away from the store front.

I don't care where they put them. I'm not against them.

I would just like those spaces to be available to everyone when the car park is otherwise full.

What about while 8 months pregnant with a wing mirrors width? It's impossible. Trust me.

Always full in Edinburgh and Inverness. I need to move.

The ones at beach are always full with people with babies and buggies. Which gives me the rage.

No issue with parent and child spaces. If they sre there go for it.

And it's more about getting them back in, than getting them out.

You can park miles away with a space next to you, but when you get back someone will have gotten as close us humanly possible to your car on their passenger side.

Curious that comment about people not being able to get themselves out of a car was disgusting

And you are talking absolute nonsense when you say that disabled bays are never full or further away

Princess - read the thread, it was said in sarcasm to a poster who said the same about my children.

I must be doing something wrong. DS is 4 and I have never had a situation where I have been unable to get him back into the car. Even when I have been to busy places with rubbish parking (and not a P and C space in sight). Sometimes it can take a bit of jiggling, and once I had to do it from the other side of the car but its always been possible.

I do think some people are at risk of becoming over reliant on the marketing ploy that is P and C spaces!

Comic - could you do this at 8 months pregnant?

Once again, I said that if P&C spaces were given over to disabled spaces, people who cannot (with the usual caveats) get their child in or out of a car in a normal space would either have to choose between not driving or not having children. I assumed you'd choose the not driving, but nevermind.

Has anyone ever been fined £60 (or any amount) for using p&c spaces without a child? I thought they were priority for parents, as an incentive to shop there, not actually a legally enforceable rule. Quite unlike disabled spaces.

Exactly Ziggie - P&C spaces away from the entrance is a brilliant idea, it doesn't infringe on disabled spaces or issues at all.

And I've never seen disabled spaces full.... Epsom & Ewell.

I have never been to a tourist area of cornwall and not struggled to find a disabled space. Regularly we would end up having to drop my Nan off and then park to make it easier for her - if someone is the driver or has a disabled child that isn't an option.

If there are lots of free spaces I still use them with a 6 and 13 yo - mainly cos the 6 yos belt is a bit tricky and I still need to help her but also cos the 13 yo has a habit of throwing the door open as I scream 'carefully' ...
If only one or two spaces I park further away - but you always get the idiot who parks right next to you, right on the line and within an inch of your door... just you and that car surrounded by 100 empty spaces - why?
Anyway maybe we could be a little more tolerant - this is where I confess - the other day I parked in P&C without a child..only realised when I was returning to the car - just been in automatic pilot, probably never been there before without DCs, this is where I park at this supermarket... thankfully lots of other empty P&C spaces but still felt terrible...a walk of shame back to the car
(I think if I'd had to look for a space I would have twigged and I do think that tolerance doesn't include the two 20 yos lads I saw a few weeks ago who cut in front of a car filled with Dcs to take the only free P&C space and then dived out looking pleased with themselves! )
I think further away with a covered walk way would be a good idea - covered bit is cos if you have two small dcs you have to leave one in the trolley getting soaked while you put one in the car - and a walkway because walking across car parks is dangerous - reversing cars can't see little ones...also I wouldn't like to have to leave one DC in the trolley on the 'roadway' behind your car while putting the other in the car...
A radical thought - on huge car parks that never get full - why not make ALL the spaces slightly wider? So as long as the idiot isn't over the white line everyone has enough space...

curious in the post I am talking about you were answering sparkling you said you had a three year old and a 7 month old that you were trying to put in a car.