To stop the traffic at the station this morning ?

forgot about the copycats-so 1%+

Jings Planet "its time to get off this B computer and get ready to go out for 2pm." Keep happy.

are you having a little conversation of your own here amarmai?

Can't wait for tomorrow's instalment. Have you alerted your local TV station...you could come armed with a film crew!

So if 200 people use the car park, amarmai, 1% of them is 2 people parking in BB spaces - plus the copycats so double it and call it 4 people. If there are four BB spaces, that will be them all filled by non-BB holders. Your % is just a guess, so it could be more. Those 4+ anti-social parkers are causing 4+ people to have pain and difficulty in walking where the 4+ would have no problem at all.

Good for you, I have a blue badge here and also have little cards a friend made for me and his Mother, they say in 4 languages, 'you can take my parking space if you take my disability and pain too'.
I just pop one under the windscreen wipers of offenders.

I do not have a car and rely on friends to take me places so it really annoys me.

Go GT!! Well done on the direct action, here's hoping you get a result from the publicity in the local paper. I used to have cards pretty much like the ones Felice has which said " You have my parking space-would you also like my disability? " DH has had a few unpleasant encounters over his bb as he looks perfectly fit and healthy, but what doesn't show is his PVD which restricts his walking distance quite dramatically. Fortunately, DH has no problem in giving as good as he gets.

Has anyone seen the Michael McIntyre sketch about what people expect to see when a driver with a bb opens the car door?

I thought I read somewhere that there was going to be a £1000 fine levied? My mother has a blue badge which she uses when I drive her. Trying to find an empty space though it is horrendous, and as she is very dodgy on her pins or if we take the wheel chair it isn't easy just dropping her off near where we intend to go. I then have to tear around trying to find somewhere to park and then run to my tottery or wheelchair Mother. I end up feeling like a damp rag?, and then of course Mum, is twittering on about being such a burden etc etc Grrrrr!

What really makes me furious is my sister who uses the badge because she is so busy!!!! I don't say anything so as not to cause a scene but honestly.

it's the majority being too polite to cause a scene that the rulebreakers are relying on.

Yes , Elegran, I may be underestimating .

More and more people seem to have no social conscience.

I am full of admiration for you, GT and I wish you luck in your campaign.

Quite often you see drivers in Disabled parking spaces who leave the badge holder in the car when they go into a shop or such and that is a misuse of the terms of holding a BB

I can't remember who posted the above (and I may lose my typing if I go to have a look further back), but that is a problem where I live.
People with blue badges park on double yellow lines and make it difficult for residents to get up our road which is near a school. They sit in the car whilst able-bodied daughter/s nip over to school to fetch able-bodied grandchildren. If anyone asks them to park more considerately the offender/s smirk and tap the blue badge.
The police know but do nothing.

An acquaintance told me airily that she uses her mother's blue badge if she wants to nip somewhere where parking is difficult.

There's quite a bit of it about!

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Just noticed this thread and wanted to add my congratulations, GrannyTwice on your direct action. Obviously you were not stopping others getting to their trains if you were blocking the exit! Anyway, as has been said, anyone with a vital reason for catching a particular train had the choice of being there in good time (and if not, you couldn't be expected to know it) as you must have been yourself. I'm getting fed up with those who moan about anything on the grounds that somebody might have a hidden problem which we should be clairvoyant enough to understand. Of course we must be considerate of others, but trying to second guess everything means that nothing ever gets done.

Good luck, and let us know what happens!

And anyone trying to park in a disabled bay has a problem which is NOT HIDDEN, so those who frustrate them are more culpable than the disabled driver is for just possibly impeding someone with a HIDDEN problem (but not preventing them from catching the train that the disabled driver did not have access to if they couldn't park).

Woman on radio this am, saying she ought to have a blue badge as she only has one arm and finds it difficult with her two children!