Disable parking bays and blue badges.

[Flooring24]

I’m a blue badge holder. Limited mobility and can only walk short distances.
If someone was parked in a disabled bay, without displaying a blue badge, would you ask them to move their car?

Regularly at school drop off and pick up there are cars parked in the 2 disabled bays, with no badges. Often parents in the car waiting for pick up.

There is other parking along the street, it gets pretty busy, and a supermarket less than 5 minutes walk away with a massive, free, car park
.
I am a bit fed up of people parking in disabled bays making them inaccessible for blue badge holders.

YABU - don’t ask them to move their car.
YANBU- yes ask them to move the car. Cheeky f@@kers

1. Ask the school to remind parents that the disabled spaces are for the disabled carers/children.

1. Can you park blocking them if necessary?

For some reason, normally sensible people seem to lose their marbles around school parking.

Can you speak to the relevant person at your local council and ask for a traffic warden to come for a couple of weeks. They will be delighted to give out some tickets.

Yes you should. and also ask the school to put a reminder out.

it’s not fair that you can’t get parked due to their ignorance /laziness

We have an international school near us. Every day was an absolute nightmare with cars parked across driveways, junctions, blocking the road, kids and parents all over the road. Then one day a police car got stuck in it all. One officer got out and read the riot act, started directing traffic, making people move, got the kids out of the road.
The next few days traffic wardens were out ticketing cars. They would have raised a lot of revenue. Once they know where to catch people they will turn up regularly.

To be honest, if people know the people parked there then they are not going to say anything. Can you take it up with the school? I live near a school that is very supportive to the school’s neighbours. They frequently bring up bad parking on the newsletters and have often arranged for a parking warden to ticket people.

I’ve said something along the lines of “did you forget your blue badge?” a few times before. It makes them feel nice and awkward 😉

Sorry voted incorrectly as I did before reading the key.