Can you park on single yellow lines on a bank holiday?

[blossomhill]

I did and have received a £40 fine. I seriously thought that you could park on a single yellow line and was so shocked to find a ticket. I am seriously p**d off as well as I could have done without it TBH as have spent a lot on dd's party, presentsthis week etc.:(

I agree lavender. You have said sorry, and no doubt paid a fine too. But FWIW I have to say I don't think the two 'crimes' are similar for the reasons I said before. BUT I think the digs should maybe stop, eh?

ps ladies in most Supermarkets if you tell the customer services the make & model + reg of the car in a disabled or P&T space when clearly they have no right to be there, they make a tannoy call out "could the owner of xxxxxxxxxxxxx come to the customer services desk" and they kindly ask them to move it.

Ronniebaby - how do you know that the car parked in the M&T space might not have a baby with a portable 0-9 months car seat and the mum and baby are innocently shopping, baby in car-seat

I mean if you see a person get out of the car clearly with no child

Sorry meant to specify that

iota - you could just peer thru the car window and if the interior is clean - no child

lisa

iota - in those circumstances you don't. but the ones you can "get" in this way are the ones with no children in sight you actually see arrive just before you and nab the last place left.

TBH if I was of the groups with a baby car seat in the supermarket, I would NOT be offended at being called over. I'd rather see the places being monitored than not, even if it meant the very odd call over to a services desk.

Lisa unfortunately the reverse is not always true

I did have to say my piece but would also like to add the last thing I want is any bad feeling. Coming on to mumsnet is a form of release and lighthearted fun and that's how I want it to stay so, no hard feelings!
I will let you all know how I get on!

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Not all supermarkets do it, but I have 4 close by to me and they all do it. but it does rely on us telling them

What age is it acceptable to still park in a mother and child? I would still with my ds 6 and dd5, is that okay? Never thought of it before.

Yorkie, I sympathise with your hubby

Some are just parent & child, technically a child is under 18, but that takes it to the extreme.

Some are mother and baby, which is sexist to the fathers. oh soooo PC

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At one of our local supermarkets it says children under 5. I have to say that I rarely bother with them now. DD is 2y 4m and I don't really need to to do the juggling act like I did before she was a confident walker. And at many of our supermarkets tey are moving the P&T spaces away from the closest points to the entrances, but nearer to trolley bays and making the spaces wider to ease getting children in/out. The plan is to stop people parking in these places for convience when they have no children.

At my local Supermarket today (Safeways - now Morrisons) they've revamped all the signs/carparking etc and noticed they now call them "Parent and Toddler" parking.

When does the "Toddler" bit end? I would assume 3-ish?

Haven't used a P&C space for yonks now - even though youngest is 4. I certainly wouldn't use them now.

Just a piece on disabled spaces

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Iota, I think the answer to your question is "Yes". I mean, even if the carpark is completely full and all the disabled spaces are empty, you shouldn't use them. It'll take much less effort for you to park blocks away and walk to the store and then back with all of your shopping than it would for people who have a disabled child or are disabled themselves to use another space.

Moms and tots spaces I'm not so sure about. I tend to park far away from the entrance and other cars though for reasons explained by ks in another thread.

Oh get this

Spaces1

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Ronniebaby

There was a letter in my local paper today from someone ranting about an 'elderly gentleman' parking in the M&T spaces at Tescos.
Apparently the writer challenged the elderly gentleman, who replied that he was disabled and all the disabled parking was full. The writer thought that the disabled man shouldn't park in the M&T and was so incensed that he's writtten to the paper to complain about his behaviour.

It's a sad world, isn't it?

Very sad world we live in, but hey, what goes around, disabled complain about people, so people complain about them, one vicious circle.

Some people really do have too much time on their hands writing to papers etc, I supposed I just cant be arsed with it, and let them get on with it and just smile when reading some stories.

you know we came back from a day out on Sunday and went to Tesco's....and shock horror we parked in a disabled spot!!!! we were there for 10 mins and in that time there was noone disabled there and tbh of the 30+ spaces they are never full....ever and I have been going to that store for 6 years!...today 15 people died in a suicide bomb attack, doesn't this parking on a disabled spot par into insignificance when you hear about this serious stuff going on!!