Inconsiderate Parking, or Opening of Car Doors

[AndyJudge]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

The big thing is here, not all disabilities are visible and may not be apparent until the person using that space has had to walk the extra distance and because the reason they have their Blue Badge in the first place is because of a heart condition so they shouldn't be walking far, they then suffer a heart attack of some form or another whether it's angina or a full blown heart attack.
Alternatively, their disability may be impaired hearing or vision, meaning that the increased distance increases the risk of them having an accident simply because it becomes a numbers game then - more steps = more chance of tripping, being hit by an unseen/unheard car etc

I'd like to see the people who make the decisions to move disabled spaces further away in favour of more "sprog & victim" spaces live as a disabled person for a month.

I suspect that there would suddenly be a lot more, easily accessible, disabled parking spaces closer to the store entrance and the sprog & victim spaces would be further away - preferably a lot further away!

Make the kids walk to the car, they have legs, it will give them exercise and help tire them out so they'll go to sleep in the car on the way home and the victims (parents) will think they've gone deaf!

Meanwhile, enlarge the normal spaces so people can park safely without risking their cars being damaged, put more staff on the tills so people don't spend 20 minutes shopping and 40 minutes queueing to pay. This would have several benefits - more people would find shopping lesss stressful so would be encouraged to use stores like this, the throughput of customers would be much faster resulting in higher footfall figures not to mention more customers willing to shop there as they wouldn't spend 2/3 of their time waiting to pay, it's a win-win when you look at it that way!

The extra throughput/footfall would easily cover the extra wages of the extra till staff and still make the retailer more money/profit.

You're in the wrong job Laird
Makes perfect sense to me, you should have a job in town centre, shopping centre planning.