Later this year, the blue badge scheme is expected to be updated to allow people with less physical disabilities to apply.
This will include people with ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar, autism, epilepsy and agoraphobia.
Don't ask me how people with agoraphobia get out to the car to drive about, because I just can't even...!
However the fear is the new rules could lead to disputes over rights for the limited spaces available.
Well, it seems there's a way to resolve this. To your corners, combatants!
"Limited spaces"
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You can't move for disabled parking bays in my town. There's far more than are ever used by disabled people and they are enforced with vigor, even into the late evening when 99% of them are empty
Surely the point of reserved parking spaces for disabled people is to make life a little easier for those who have difficulty moving about. They also have extra space for sorting out wheelchairs. Why would any of the conditions mentioned above require such things? I am sixty and super fit as I'm a triathlete. I am also a type two diabetic so can I have a blue badge?
ReplyDeleteIf you have a blue badge for suffering from anxiety, and you can't find a disabled parking bay, won't this make you even more anxious, possibly leading to being severely depressed, even suicidal? Problem solved
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Spakkers duelling at 10 yards. Now that would be worth watching. Sounds like a drawn-out game as the combatants are likely to keep missing.
ReplyDelete"You can't move for disabled parking bays in my town. There's far more than are ever used by disabled people ..."
ReplyDeleteI can't think of a single big supermarket that doesn't have them in abundance. And strangely, they are often all occupied.
"Why would any of the conditions mentioned above require such things?"
They wouldn't. This is mission creep, pure and simple.
"If you have a blue badge for suffering from anxiety, and you can't find a disabled parking bay, won't this make you even more anxious,..."
Now you're bringing logic into it! :D