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Originally Posted by jambutty
I would add though that if I have the choice of parking in an on road pay and display area or on nearby yellow lines I choose the yellow lines so that some able bodied person can use the pay and display area.
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Then you are an idiot. Yellow lines are there for a reason, usually to stop parked cars causing an obstruction. Parking on them with a blue badge should be an exception for you not the norm.
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Originally Posted by jambutty
A standard marked parking bay on a car park is about 3 metres wide by about 5.8 metres long, with disabled or mum and toddler bays an extra metre on each side.
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Not in the Arndale they are not, or Ossy Co-Op either. They are the same size as the normal bays at the side of them, that is why I said there should be a distinction for wheel chair users, so they can park in wider bays.
It annoys me when I see a blue badge holder park in the disabled spaces on the Arndale car park then walk round town shopping. Those bays should be wider for wheel chair users only. If you can walk round Accy shopping you can walk from a normal space to the lift, it is only 30 yards from most spaces on their to the lift. If you can't walk that far what's the point of parking on the Arndale car park in the first place?
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Originally Posted by jambutty
As for Heather Mills she should return the badge. As an amputee with a prosthetic limb she can walk and now it seems dance the tango. Other amputees with prosthetic limbs can’t get a Blue Badge.
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Maybe she too has bad days when she can't wear it and needs to use a crutch.