Disabled spot sign that needs to be used everywhere.

[Rib]

My father was paralyzed from the waist down in his later years, and I can't tell you how much some people needed punching sometimes. The main offenders were "just" people going to a cash point machine who didn't want to park the car properly. "Only be a minute, mate".

[benedictw]

Quite. In my unscientific study of this, it appears to be mainly BMW drivers.

[xav]

However, to offer a counterpoint to this, my gf's company used to have an office in the town centre, on a one-way road. The road was wide enough for two cars, so the local council decided to set aside the whole of one side for a long disabled parking bay which could easily hold about 8-10 cars on average, or a dozen on a good day. They also put double-yellow lines down the other side of the road.

During the week there were rarely more than three or four cars in the disabled zone.

This left my gf's company (and the various other offices and shops down that street) with no option but to either use the disabled zone, or to block the carriageway and park on the double-yellow lines whenever they had to load or unload.

The traffic wardens once recommended that they block the carriageway and get a ticket on the double-yellows because the fine would be less than for parking in the disabled bay. They also tried to ticket me once when I was picking up my gf from work, at 6:30pm when there were no cars in the disabled bay at all, other than mine.

I do appreciate the need for disabled parking spaces, but I think sometimes councils don't consider the resentment that can be caused by seeming to provide unfair privileges.

I believe that registered disabled card holders can park on single-yellow lines, and sometimes even on double-yellows. So why the need for a road-long disabled bay, when yellow lines would still allow the disabled drivers to park, whilst also allowing a bit more flexibility for those able bodied people who do literally just need to load or unload and don't want to block the carriageway.



I'm just glad that my gf's company has now moved, and has a private parking space all of their own in the town centre (just the one space, mind, and it costs them).

[stark]

things that bug me #456

i'm just wondering when we'll get muslim parking spaces closer to the store entrances? Soon the able bodied, non child rearing, ethnic majority will be parking so far away from store entrances that they might as well have walked from home.

Im already discriminated against by the local abbey national with their disabled-friendly cashpoints, which are about 2 ft off the ground.

i'm sure your perspective changes when you are disabled or know someone who is, but shouldn't stuff be arranged so that the minimum amount of people are inconvenienced rather than 'pandering' to a minority?

[The Captain]

things that bug me #456

i'm just wondering when we'll get muslim parking spaces closer to the store entrances? Soon the able bodied, non child rearing, ethnic majority will be parking so far away from store entrances that they might as well have walked from home.

Im already discriminated against by the local abbey national with their disabled-friendly cashpoints, which are about 2 ft off the ground.

i'm sure your perspective changes when you are disabled or know someone who is, but shouldn't stuff be arranged so that the minimum amount of people are inconvenienced rather than 'pandering' to a minority?

This is a very strange and intolerant post.

a)You have the option of bending down to use a cashpoint, much as it might horrify you to do so. Surely a little bit of give and take might actually make the legislators sit up and take notice that human beings of differing levels of physical ability can exist side-by side, rather than be favoured one way or the other.

b) Introducing a religious element into this thread, in such a nonsensically biased manner, says far more about you than anyone else. If you had children or were caring for a disabled relative you might just open your eyes a bit. If tolerance and empathy are 'pandering to a minority' in your eyes, I can't imagine what it must be like to be in your head.

In fact, the image with which this thread started seems to be specifically for people with your blinkered attitude.

[starshipcommand]

a)You have the option of bending down to use a cashpoint, much as it might horrify you to do so.

What about people with bad backs though?

[benedictw]

a)You have the option of bending down to use a cashpoint, much as it might horrify you to do so.

What about people with bad backs though?

Bend Zee Knees!

[grue]

things that bug me #456

i'm just wondering when we'll get muslim parking spaces closer to the store entrances? Soon the able bodied, non child rearing, ethnic majority will be parking so far away from store entrances that they might as well have walked from home.

Im already discriminated against by the local abbey national with their disabled-friendly cashpoints, which are about 2 ft off the ground.

i'm sure your perspective changes when you are disabled or know someone who is, but shouldn't stuff be arranged so that the minimum amount of people are inconvenienced rather than 'pandering' to a minority?

[The Captain]

a)You have the option of bending down to use a cashpoint, much as it might horrify you to do so.

What about people with bad backs though?

Bend Zee Knees!

But what about those who have bad knees? Or stilts, and can't be arsed taking them off? Yet again it's one rule for them and another for the rest of us etc., etc.

[stark]

things that bug me #456

i'm just wondering when we'll get muslim parking spaces closer to the store entrances? Soon the able bodied, non child rearing, ethnic majority will be parking so far away from store entrances that they might as well have walked from home.

Im already discriminated against by the local abbey national with their disabled-friendly cashpoints, which are about 2 ft off the ground.

i'm sure your perspective changes when you are disabled or know someone who is, but shouldn't stuff be arranged so that the minimum amount of people are inconvenienced rather than 'pandering' to a minority?

This is a very strange and intolerant post.

a)You have the option of bending down to use a cashpoint, much as it might horrify you to do so. Surely a little bit of give and take might actually make the legislators sit up and take notice that human beings of differing levels of physical ability can exist side-by side, rather than be favoured one way or the other.

b) Introducing a religious element into this thread, in such a nonsensically biased manner, says far more about you than anyone else. If you had children or were caring for a disabled relative you might just open your eyes a bit. If tolerance and empathy are 'pandering to a minority' in your eyes, I can't imagine what it must be like to be in your head.

In fact, the image with which this thread started seems to be specifically for people with your blinkered attitude.

a) i also have the option of not using their cashpoints, which i do. it just bemuses me that on the frontage of said building society there are 2 cashpoints. both are at this low height. if one was suitable for the disabled and one for the able bodied then that would be balanced, but its not. If abbey national doesnt think we should live side by side without inconvenience to either side then why should I?

b) ok i chucked in the muslim reference for shits n giggles, my point being that increasingly there is a 20 metre exclusion zone around store entrances because of special parking spaces. my question , though somewhat veiled , was where does it stop.

introducing a religious element? , no they were the first minority i thought of. if i'd said blacks you would have called me racist

i put 'pandering' in quotes for a reason.

despite my opinions on the subject i don't park in disabled/or parent parking spaces, so no the sign at the top of the thread isnt suitable for me

oh and you said...

" If you had children or were caring for a disabled relative you might just open your eyes a bit. "

but i had already said..

"i'm sure your perspective changes when you are disabled or know someone who is..., "

perhaps you ought to get back to your daily mail

[teamonkey]

b) ok i chucked in the muslim reference for shits n giggles, my point being that increasingly there is a 20 metre exclusion zone around store entrances because of special parking spaces. my question , though somewhat veiled , was where does it stop.

After about 20 metres, I would assume.

[Baggypants]

Your right stark. A better plan would be to round up all the crips and make them live in big hospitals. They could sleep in dormitory's, every now and again there could be a cull.

Then supermarkets could arrange parking spaces by arrogance-of-driver. like there supposed to.

[Tael]

Parents' parking shits me off. Can't one parent shop for groceries alone whilst the other is at home taking care of the children?

[Baggypants]

Parents parking shits me off. Can't one parent shop for groceries alone whilst the other is at home taking care of the children?

another good idea. That leaves the third parent to work and support the other two.

[Stuart B]

Parents' parking shits me off. Can't one parent shop for groceries alone whilst the other is at home taking care of the children?

Two parents? In modern Britain?

Oh, my!