Why are there so many disabled car parking spaces everywhere?

Question

There are NOT that many disabled people around.

If you watch the majority of people parked in disabled bays even displaying the badges, you'll find most can walk perfectly fine. So whats the game? Is it Ok to be depressed and park in a disabled spot???

In a normal sized town the ratio would be less than 3% disabled inhabitants, yet parking spaces are like 50% allocated to disabled people.

I am being honest, disabled people usually want to be treated like anyone else, then why are they made exception for?

Answer 1

There is a small minority of genuinely disabled people...My father is one -he is blind and has only one leg. yes we have a blue badge or what we call a cripple sticker.

I work with disabled people on a daily basis and the cripple stickers do make life a bit easier.

However,consider the idle biggers,they can beg more money from us ie the state,if they can con the system.You get a bigger handout if you can con that you are disabled than you can get on the dole.

You can eve get a free car with free tax disc and park it in the spaces for the genuine disabled!!!!!

Is this just another thing that Golden Brown has ficked up

Answer 2

there are 1 in 6 people disabled in the UK.

Answer 3

It is a fair question and i do not think that you discriminate in any way by asking it. There does seem more spaces than are truly needed and the system is routinely abused. To park in such a space the person who holds the Blue Badge should actually be driving or being carried in the vehicle. As often as not, they are not!  The Blue Badge is NOT for the convenience of their spouse or siblings.  But I know for a fact that the system is flawed anyway - I personally know 3 people whose qualifying disability has not existed for many years but they still get their Blue Badge renewed each year.

Answer 4

People who drive should be physically fit and able bodied.

This may sound a bit hard but consider this:

You are walking on a pavement with your wife (or husband) and your two year old child. All of a sudden an elderly, infirm blue bagde user loses control of her car and carreers into a lamp post, the lamp post topples over and crushes your daughter, killing her.

This happened in Scarborough about five years ago.

Another case (again in Scarborough), A blue badge holder lost control of her car in a car park. She hit seven cars before planting herself on a bollard.

I'll say it again:

People who drive should be physically fit and able bodied.

Answer 5

you may see them walking around , but can you see the cancer on the inside , !!! YOU CANT ALWAYS SEE A  DISABILITY

Answer 6

ABC news has a story on how easy it was to be classified as disabled.  So there's too much emphasis on it.

As to why the BEST spots are given to disable parking... they are trying to "help" the disabled.  But it is somewhat stupid to reserve the BEST spots when they are hardly ever all used up.  They should have few close to the building.  But then reserve the rest at the far end - especially since they are hardly ever used.

The thinking is somewhat weird. These days EVERYBODY needs to drive - not just the disabled.

Good Luck...

Answer 7

If you go to a large shop such as Tesco, there will be a whole row of diabled parking spaces. But smaller parks may just have about 2, or people who require them may share the general bays.

Answer 8

Agreed that is so annoying

I am an assistant and I would have to go to Wholefoods to get like 24 crates of water so one morning I went and it was Pouring down rain so I knew no one elderly would be out and I didn't want the baggers to have to load my car out in the rain so I left my hazard lights on ran in paid $200 something for the water and the guy came out w/ me to load ~ I got a $356. ticket because the cop said some elderly lady may need the park but there was 15 empty ones for her to use IF BY CHANCE SHE was going to get out in the rain to go to Wholefoods

Stupid that they have that many and at the mall what is that about????  900 of them

Answer 9

There are not as many disabled parking spaces as you think but because they are located on high streets and right outside shops you tend to notice them more. And no, you shouldn't park in a disabled bay if you are not disabled. I work with disabled adults and there is nothing more frustrating than trying to take them out and not being able to as someone (who isn't disabled) has taken the space you need to carry out the activity.

Answer 10

You obviously have poor ideas about being disabled!

You seem to think that to be disabled you have to have a walking difficulty.

This is certainly not the case.  

Blindness is a disability for one and before you try to say that the blind can't drive, I know that, but they are still entitled to a disabled badge so that someone else can transport them.

My wife is disabled but it is not readily evident from just looking at her.  First impressions would be that she is perfectly OK to walk, however, she can only walk short distances before pain stops her from continuing.  If she walks slower, she can probably walk slightly further before she would have to stop for a rest.  What may take you a few seconds to walk could take her 20 minutes.

Please remember that it is not necessarily the driver who is disabled.

You may very well notice disabled parking spaces when you cannot park in one but when you need one a free space is not that common.

Answer 11

Get rid of them altogether,same with 'baby' bays,why can't the little darlings walk a couple of yards  to the store,if the person is really disabled and really can't manage the shopping,there are 'helpers' in the stores,a little exercise now and then won't hurt,will it,for everyone!