Well done Asda for finally fining people for parkining in Parent and Child spaces

[PrinceRainie]

At last Asda have shown some sense and will commence fining people for parking in Parent and Child spaces when they have no child in the car..........

[andrea81]

gina - I totally agree. I dare say my mother keeps telling me to use my dads badge when I take her somewhere, but I refuse point blank as I get annoyed when it happend to me with child spaces!

Think its awful to do that especially thinking about how my dad gets trouble when he's having a bad day and walking is trouble! Don't understand why my mother thinks its ok though - I do tell her off!

[cazzz1975]

I believe they are clamping down on that gina, If my children are not with me I will not park in the disabled bays or the mother and baby bays. I have 2 blue badges, I certainly dont believe in abusing the system!

[rabbitygirl]

Have no issue with designated bays, whoever they are for, as I park well away from the front of supermarket where everyone is fighting for the parking nearest the door.

Its so long since I had babies I cant even remember how I coped without a mum and baby bay - but I must have because I didn't keep them in for 5 years.

What I would like to know is are the mums that use the bays with child safety areas either side the same ones who, when dropping off kids at school invariably go into the road, open the door and spill everyone out into the road.

Having lived yards from a school for many years, I and my neighbours would look on incredulously as this happened many, many times.

[Dassie]

Disabled bays near the door yes but why must parent and child bays be near the doors as well? I appreciate the extra space required but why priority at the front. I bet if these bays were at the back all these parents would soon be using "normal" bays.

We all have to deal with so called speeding cars in car parks but it applies to all of us whether old or young or physically challenged. Parent and child bays if you must but not priority near the entrance doors. It's your choice to have children.

[naomi24]

I can understand why parents with small children need more space, but I can't understand why are able-bodied people complain - or why they're so lazy. There's always plenty of room in supermarket car parks (except perhaps at Christmas time) - and it's never far to walk to the shop from any parking position. Why care if parent and child spaces are nearer than the normal spaces? Pathetic!

[PrinceRainie]

I think that the only people who are opposed to the Parent and Child spaces are
1) Disabled drivers who park there instead of their own spaces.
2) People who have never had or looked after young children
3) Lazy idiots that cant be bothered to walk an extra 10 meters or so to the shop door..
4) Gypsies
5) The Polish
I could go on but I feel ive made my point!!

[THECORBYLOON]

"Disabled drivers who park there instead of their own spaces" Ah so only able-bodied folk have wee ones do they? Also, have you not considered the possibility that when the disabled spaces have been taken by ignorant folk wi no disability, the disabled drivers should have the option of using the "parents" spaces?

As for the Polish and Gypsies comment, why be racist when there's plenty of British folk who do the same?

[gina32]

does that mean then that if all the parent and toddler spaces have been taken people with toddlers should be able to park in the disabled spots? or am i reading you wrong corbyloon?

[Dassie]

naomi

You say it's not very far from any spot to the shops......and refer to my comment as pathetic? If it's not so far why must the parents get priority parking near the front?
Just because they chose to have children why should they park near the front instead of old/infirm people who are perhaps not disabled and do not qualify for disabled bays.

The lazy and inconsiderate ones are the young mothers.

[gina32]

at my local shop the mother and toddler places arent near the opening of the shop and in fact probably about half way down the car park

[THECORBYLOON]

gina no, parents should not be allowed to use the disabled spaces as disabled person and a parent are not equally disadvantaged. The law does not make allowances for a parent wi a wee one when it comes to letting them have their own spaces.

[PrinceRainie]

TheCorbyLoon --- gina no, parents should not be allowed to use the disabled spaces as disabled person and a parent are not equally disadvantaged------well if all the idiots without children...and some idiotic selfish disabled people who feel that as there are no disabled places then they can park in a parent and child place..if they all stop parking in our places..then we will in theirs......it squite simple....park where your supposed to park...and we are all happy....!!

[gina32]

prince, totally agree

[naomi24]

Dassie, it wasn't your comment I referred to as 'pathetic', it's able-bodied people - of any age - who make a big issue of the fact that parent and child spaces are close to the shop. What difference can it make to someone who's able?

I know it's a choice to have children - and it's lucky for you and I our parents made that choice - but trying to get two or three small children and a trolley brimmed to overflowing back safely across roads to a car parked on the edges of the car park isn't the easiest thing in the world. I have enough trouble getting a loaded trolley back to my car - especially if I happen to inadvertently choose a wonky one - and I shop on my own!

[anotheoldgit]

The ones who mainly park in disabled spaces are young women in 4x4s, who seem to think it is alright to use their disabled relatives badge, even though they are not with them.

At my local ASDA the mother and child places are not near the entrance, and are mostly left empty. Even though one can only gain access to the disabled area, by automatic number plate recognition, mothers will still park in the disabled area. Somehow they must have had their vehicle registered, by a disabled relative.

It should be the law, that if one uses a blue badge, the side with the photograph of the person to which it was issued, should be on display.

[aims1202]

after reading all that i'm glad i dont have a car anymore!

on the very rare occasions i borrow my mums car, i just park at the far end, there are always spaces and you can usually find one with no cars next to it so you have loads of room to get kids out and then we walk to the shop from there.

[Best Guess]

Can't be bothered to read all the answers to see if this has been suggested, but.... Why not keep special places for shoppers with kids but rather than put them all close to the store put them in one long row. Then they have the extra room to get in and out of their 4X$ but like the rest of use they sometimes get a space near the front and they sometimes have to walk a 150 metres to the store. Then if those with kids choose to park in a 'normal' space they can be fined as well. Sounds fair to me.

[tillyfloss]

As a mother who uses parent child spaces I just wanted to sya that I only ask for a wider space so I can get my little girl into her buggy or the trolley next to the car instead of behind it where she could get hit by another car.

If supermarkets put them at the furthest side of the car park it's fine by me as I am on my feet all day anyway so no diff there! Let others have the spaces close to the doors - us parents just need a bit wider gaps that's all!

Tesco near me put them in rows - some close to shop - others further away so it's fair to all.

[its_me_baby]

well i think car parks should have parent and toddler spaces. The car park i use regularly has disabled spaces and even spaces in the well lit up part for lone women but nothing for parents with young ones. we always park in the middle of two spaces. lol value for money

[EngTeach]

In the US, or at least in NY, a parent with three children under the age of 4 can get a handicapped tag. This is just one step back for all women have fought for. (I know some dads can use the spot too, but we know it is mostly the moms.) Why ask for special treatment in this area, but expect equality in others. Safety? I don't know. In most lots you still have to cross the major line of cars driving across the front of the store. Yesterday 2 blocks from my home an 8 month old was very tragically killed while being pushed in his stroller by his gran. A large SUV backed over the stroller while they were going down the street. The gran was on the sidewalk, certainly much safer than a parking lot, but still this happened.

I love kids, and have great respect for mothers ( I would love to be one), but this is too much. So far here they don't fine for parking in them, but they do have them. I have a friend (Stay at home mom) who insists she has the right to park in a spot labeled "Team member of the month parking" She has no respect for those who must work, but pitches a fit when people with no kids go in those Mom spots. I tell her to shop during the day when the rest of the world is at work. She can have any spot she wants then. We call them "Stork Parking" spots.

I get killed on taxes for being single and child-free, left out of some social activities b/c I will throw off seating, asked if I and am gay, and have survived one too many sad Oh you're not married, poor thing conversations to willingly give up a valuable parking spot w/o a fight.