AS s a genuine long-term disabled driver I, too, am concerned at the misuse of both disabled bays and parents bays in supermarket car parks.
This seems to be particularly bad in the evenings and at weekends when certain types of people feel courtesy and consideration need not apply to them.
Mention anything and a torrent of abuse is the common reply.
However, your letter wri
ter on the subject last week then goes on to an amazing piece of nimbyism – don't you disabled people dare to park in the parent bays!
While not normally shopping in the main part of the day when many parents shop, I have on occasion had to visit a supermarket, only to find all the disabled bays full, a very common event at Tesco in Durrington.
I have then reluctantly used a parent bay as the only suitable alternative from which to reach the supermarket.
Your reader struggles in an ordinary space. I cannot even get out of my vehicle.
At least a young, hopefully fit, parent has the option to find a quiet corner of the car park where there is more room. I cannot walk that far.
At the end of the day supermarkets need to come up with a better way of servicing their clients' special parking needs, or this driver, for one, will just drive straight out again.
John Lees
Rochester Close
WorthingNOTE: All letters must include a name and address which can be withheld by request.
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