An article in today’s “Times” tells of the abuse of drivers using Disabled Persons’ Badges while not accompanied by the badge holder. The full article can be seen at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article3241387.ece
As I regularly drive my disabled Aunt around Wirral I am getting more and more annoyed at able bodied people parking their cars in disabled bays.
People that park in contravention of Disabled Parking spaces should suffer the same fate as people that fraudulently use Disabled Persons Parking Badges. That is a fine of up to £1,000.
In Liverpool, their Parking Manager has linked in with the Merseyside police and seized hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of vehicle from people illegally using these badges. I strongly believe Wirral Council should do the same.
Abuse of the disabled parking bays in West Kirby and across the whole of The Wirral is rife and is anti-social.
I read last week a letter in one of our free newspapers from a parent who had difficulties at the “parent and child” parking spaces in Morrison’s in West Kirby, resulting from disabled drives using the toddler bays because the disabled bays are full of cars not showing badges also.
The picture below is a case in point. It is the bays outside of the old Bridge Arcade on Grange Road/ Bridge Road. (I must clarify that it is not a recent image and was taken about May 30th 2006.)
It is of a picture of a two space Disabled Persons Parking Bay, clearly lined and signed and a gold colour Rover 75 being parked in contravention of the local parking place order.
The fact that the driver was waiting for someone to come out to the fish and chip shop seemed to be a valid reason in the drivers mind for parking there in a Disabled Persons Parking Bay and not in the Council run Pay and Display car park some forty yards away.
