Well done Asda for finally fining people for parkining in Parent and Child spaces

[PrinceRainie]

At last Asda have shown some sense and will commence fining people for parking in Parent and Child spaces when they have no child in the car..........

[NJOK]

I turned on BBC Breakfast when I woke up this morning.

Sian and Bill were discussing the text messages and emails that had come in regarding the day's big issue.

"Your messages are pouring in," said Bill. "It's one of the most controversial we've ever had."

"Feelings are running very high," agreed Sian. "Clearly this is an issue that a lot of you feel very, very strongly about."

Oh aye, I thought. This'll be good. Is it to do with Darfur? Perhaps it's the EU constitution? Maybe we've invaded Burma?

"Asda have said that people who abuse priority child-only or disabled car parking spaces will be fined �60," said Bill.

I turned off the telly and went back to sleep.

[eyebrows]

i think teh childern could do with the exercise.....let them walk and extra 10 metres.....

and the mums could use a bit of toning from the pregnancy fat,....

[confused79]

I will say though i dont take the children to the supermarket i order it all on line and have it delivered to my door, so i use my brain and dont take the whole mod to the supermarket anyway!!!!!

[andrea81]

Waitrose has an attendant to let you in and out, why don't they have the attendant issue each person with a different colour ticked depending on where they should park i.e. if you have a disabled badge you get a blue ticket and children a red, others a white.

Maybe this will stop people wrongly parking, it winds me up! Also in Irenald they had parking for mums to be, I like that too!

[Pippa68]

It's nothing to do with exercise ~ and everything to do with safety.

They can move the parent/child spaces far away from the door for all I care..as long as they stay.

[daffy654]

andrea81....you can't always tell people are disabled by looking at them so how would the attendant know? Not all disabilities require wheelchairs,I am registered disabled because of lung problems,I can't walk far as I get very out of breath(no i'm not fat and breathless because of that before anyone says it).

I do think putting the parent and child bays nearer to the supermarket is a daft idea,why do they need to be close to the shop? most parents can walk perfectly well,if they can't then they should have a disabled badge and be parking in those bays instead.

[activology]

Completely agree with Pippa68 it's about safety and to be fair there are only a few parent/child spaces anyway so you'r lucky if you can even get one!

[andrea81]

Daffy - I said in my post that you would show your disabled badge (if you have a disability then you must show your badge to park in a disabled space anyway) these are issued to anyone who has any kind of diability!

I'm on side with keeping the spaces!

[cazzz1975]

well I for one am glad to see that ASDA are fining these people, how lazy have people gotton these days when they have to park in mother and child or diabled bays because they dont want to walk.

its rife, everywhere you go now people want to stop right outside the entrance because the thought of walking fills them with dread, and these are the seemingly healthy people.

[wisewomen]

I dont have children myself but have on a number of occassions had to get my sisters kids out of the car and I think the spaces are a fantastic idea. Without them, you cannot open the door property to undo the seat fasteners and lift the child out. You also dont have room for the pushchair without them and have to leave it in the road on on coming traffic. Then once you have managed to get the child out and into the pushchair, you then have to leave the child in the line of passing traffic to close the door and lock the vehicle.

Its much safer for parents and their children to have these spaces and putting them near the doors reduces the risk of having children running all over the car-park.

I think they are an excellent idea and people should be made to use them properly. You can get fined for parking in Disabled spaces so why not in Parent & Child spaces, they need them for very similar reasons and maybe the Pareent and Child spaces are even more so justified.

[andrea81]

Also do add, the reson for putting these spaces closer I would think is about safety, if I had a few children with me I would find it difficult crossing the carpark holding a hand and a trolley. Also if it is raining badly moving children around or a disabled person is going to get wetter than someone who is able to run or walk fast with no obsticles i.e. car seat, clumby children etc...

[daffy654]

You have to display the badge in the car though so unless councils start issuing a badge to carry around as well that could create problems.
I was recently looking online to purchase some stickers I had seen to put on the cars of people who park in the disabled bays when they have no right....they said something like "so you want my parking space?would you like my disability too?",they were easy to remove so wouldn't have damaged cars,unfortunately I couldn't find them. :-(

[daffy654]

andrea81...I didn't mean that message to come across the way it did,sorry :-( its difficult to convey meaning and emotion on message boards.

[PrinceRainie]

I totally agree with wisewoman, as you can get fined for parking in a disabled space, you should get fined for parking in a parent and child space if you have no child.

Why should disabled people get free and preferential parking and parents and children not?

Most of the disabled people I see parking their cars (not only at supermarkets) dont seem to have any disability at all. They get out of their cars and walk (very easily) to the supermarket. As im sure most parents will agree, having to take a baby or young child to the supermarket is like being disabled in some way.

Also at my local Asda, the main culprits for using the parent and child bays are the staff who work there. There fines should be double that of the publics..!! and deducted from their pay.

[andrea81]

daffy - no worries! I had to read my post over too as I wasn't sure if I came accross all wrong! ; - )))

I wish I had stuck up for myself and son one day when a young couple parked in a parent space in their posh car (without a child) and I had to drag myself and my son in a car seat to the shop in the rain! I should have said "Excuse me but you forgot your child!" But I just couldn't do it, felt mad with myself though!

[cazzz1975]

not all disabilities are visable, and trust me in order to get the high rate of mobility you do have to have a proven disability.

whether its very noticable or not it is there and just watching someone walk into a shop is not a good indicator of someones overall health

[daffy654]

PrinceRainie...councils don't give out blue badges without proof of the person's disability,just because a person doesn't look disabled doesn't mean they're not.I don't look disabled and you should see how many people look into my fiance's car window when we park to see if I have a badge,its quite comical sometimes.

[gina32]

i agree that p[eopel with chiildren/ babies shoul be given their own space, and also agree with the disabled parking but what does annoy me it the owners of cars with disabled stickers who arent actually disabled but have the stickers because someone they use the car for is disabled and they take advantage of that

[gina32]

sorry about the mistakes, typing to fast!!

[daffy654]

The disabled badge is issued to the disabled person,not the car owner/driver (unless they are one and the same obviously),I don't drive but have a badge.My fiance would never use the badge for parking unless I was in the car with him.I know some people do and they are fined if they are caught...they rarely are caught though :-(