Hospital Discrimination.
Ok, little rant here.
Fair enough disabled drivers/car users are welcome to park closer to the entrance of wherever.. to which I have no problem. BUT WHY! at the Royal Blackburn Hospital do non-disabled drivers get charged for the use of the car park, yet disabled drivers have free parking! (No ticket machines) This is absolutely ridiculous if you ask me, and discriminative against non-disabled drivers! Just because a disabled driver/passenger is disabled, it does not mean they cant afford to pay the car park fee! I'm sure someone will have some sensible response, but I find this utterly inexcusable. "Im not disabled, £3.00 then please.." |
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Covered this before Thomas . but absolutely agree with you.
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Ah dam! How I wish I had original/fresh topics to discuss =(
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Great point though. x |
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I think that the reasons behind free parking for the disabled are
They go to a lot of hospital appointments for their physical ailments. They are likely to be out of work and on benefit therefore short of money. I don't know if these are the official reasons behind it but they are the only reasons I can come up with to explain. |
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When you think of all the disadvantages you can when your disabled then its nothing. My friend needed to use the toilet very badly in a mcdonalds in leeds and he asked to use the disabled toilet and they refused, and they called the manager to 'deal' with him and my friend had to lift up his top and reveal his stoma bag which was badly in need of emptying and obviously this was very distressful in a busy mcdonalds. He was discriminated against for not looking disabled 'enough'. He can afford £3 parking, he says the benefits he gets are more than adequate, but its ust nice to have that one less thing to worry about when you have to visit the hospital isnt it. |
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I also then asked myself the question, what uproar would there be if non-disabled drivers had free parking, yet disabled drivers had to pay? Discrimination law suit me thinks? |
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Also on the disability note, someone visiting the hospital could be equally as 'disabled' as such due to whatever they're visiting for, maybe illness, a broken leg? Anything. Yet because they don't have a blue badge, they have to pay - regardless of their circumstances to what they are visiting the hospital for.
Secondly, if a disabled person needs to visit the hospital frequently due to their disability, and they don't have someone to drive them there every time they're due, wouldnt they find some other form of transport? Taxi, free door2door minibus service? etc. Unless of course they are fit enough to drive, to which they should be fit enough to pay a small parking free ;) |
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If you had a choice between paying £3 parking or being disabled and getting it for free, which would you choose?
I think it's actually quite selfish to whinge about £3 somebody's saving for being physically disabled. |
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The main point here for me is that anyone should be charged at all for parking while attending a hospital. We are either ill, or attending friends/loved ones who are ill. Some smart arsed toerag decided that there is yet more cash to be made out of peoples’ misery. It’s a bloody racket in my book.
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So should the disabled in my opinion. |
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