Let's Eliminate Government-Mandated Handicapped Parking Spots.

[Mashmont]

Painting a wheelchair on one or 2 spaces is not a burden.

Get over it.

It puts out a lot of customers, usually needlessly.

 

[Mashmont]

I have been to parking lots that reserve spaces for the disabled, old people, veterans, and pregnant women.

Lol.

Yes. Lowe's does it for veterans, "pro" customers, pick ups, and disabled. Four different things. I'm like "Is there any parking for just average people?" But I will take any spot except for disabled and veterans. They're not going to lose a customer over the other stuff.

 

[ThisIsMe]

I think the most outrageous abuse I've ever seen was a giant pick up truck that parked diagonally across two handicap spaces, left their engine running, and their sound system blaring.

The person who borrows someone's car who is handicap and uses the hanger anyway, or, the person who rides with a handicap driver but the driver stays in the vehicle while their non handicap passenger gets out of the vehicle and goes into the store.

I know you can't always tell who is handicap, but sometimes people get out of the car and they look like they are moving just fine.

 

[Jarlaxle]

The sadness is that there are millions and millions of people abusing the disability laws. And a lot of money and benefits is paid out to it. And there is a percentage of those on disability that are self-important. Everything to help people seems to be abused. Look at the service animals people take into public places. They take them on flights, vacations to go into places not allowed and even cruises. A little torture would clean it up.

You deserve bad news from your oncologist.

A Business is a GUEST in our society. They have no Right to exist. They exist because we allow them to exist. Period.

Liberturdians suck ass. I hate Liberturdians almost as much as I HATE dimocrap scum.

People who don't want any goobermint? Move to Port au Prince, you'd love that --

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You're nuts.

There are a vast number of reasons why people obtain and need handicapped parking permits.

A lot of the reasons cannot even be seen... orthopedic... cardio... respiratory... whatever...

This is Much Ado About Nothing...

Leave 'em alone...

A big reason, of course, is that a parking pass is about $200-small, used bills discreetly wrapped in paperwork and handed to the DMV employee. The only reason needed is the cash.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

My issue with them is the abuse. Far too often when I see someone going to or from a car in a handicapped parking post their "handicap" is that they're a big, fat lard ass. That isn't a handicap; it's a lifestyle choice. Several years back I fractured my foot sparring with someone at the gym. I was in a boot for three months and I was able to get a handicapped placard from the DMV. I never once used it.

 

[Seymour Flops]

A few years ago, missus flops and I went to a restaurant located in a strip mall. i guess the handicapped spaces were down the row because we were able to park right in front of the restaurant.

From the car to the restaurant, I was looking around, waiting for sometime.That I wasn't allowed to park there. because that's how much we've gotten used to thinking anything nice must be reserved for some preferred group or another.

 

[Kondor3]

A big reason, of course, is that a parking pass is about $200-small, used bills discreetly wrapped in paperwork and handed to the DMV employee. The only reason needed is the cash.

Nonsense... in most States... mine included... your physician must fill-out a medical certification that you need such a permit.

Most doctors are not keen on the idea of losing their license to practice medicine over a measly and paltry cash bribe.

You're clue-less and just talking Smack that you pulled out of your nether regions...

 

[whitehall]

Have your wife/husband or significant other drop you at the Walmart entrance and get a drive cart if you are temporarily injured. It ain't hard.

 

[Crepitus]

It puts out a lot of customers, usually needlessly.

I don't think there is any evidence for that, and I disagree it's "needless" even if it does.

Does walking a few extra steps really hurt you?

 

[Oddball]

In 2025, America is faced with such an erosion of liberties that many of us are numb to it. It's just expected, and it's imbedded in so many subtle ways.

Today, I'm going to focus on one of my pet peeves that I am sure many of you will disagree with me on, conservatives included: Handicapped parking spaces.

Ten years ago this summer, I had a torn quadriceps tendon, had major surgery and was in a cast for six weeks. I borrowed a walker from a neighbor. There was a point when no one was home, and I had to go to Walmart to buy groceries. All the close by parking spots were taken, except for the 20 or so handicapped spots of which about five were occupied. As you know, handicapped spots are the premium locations always closest to the door. So I began my slow trek about 200 feet from the entrance. As I neared the empty handicapped spots, a van pulled into one of them and out waddled a 300-pound woman. I don't know what her disability was, but the main one appeared to be that she was morbidly obese. She was walking without assistance, so I would assume if she were to drop 150 or so pounds, she could walk normally and not need a special spot. The only requirement for getting approval for handicapped parking is for a health care professional to sign off. Doesn't have to be a doctor. A nurse practitioner will do. And there doesn't have to be a specific condition; only the determination that one has difficulty walking normally. So this could be most anybody who wants one. I am told these things are relatively easy to come by.

A business must have 2% of spaces solely for handicapped parking. For a small business, any number under 20, must be for the handicapped; again the prime spot. My beef is that this spot is usually available, and 98% of the population is inconvenienced at all times to accommodate the possibility that less than 2% might use a spot. For a business like Walmart or Lowe's that has upwards of 1000 parking spots, at least 20 front-and-center spots have to be available. Usually fewer than half are filled. This inconveniences everybody else. I sure could have used one of those spots that day I was in a cast with my walker.

This madness started in 1973 with the Rehabilition Act which guaranteed rights for the Disabled. While the act didn't mandate parking spaces, it set the table for the American Disabilities Act of 1990 which ushered in the familiar guy-in-a-wheelchair blue icon where the rules were standardized.

My thoughts? This is just another unfunded mandate that businesses are expected to eat. The decision should be left up to the business. If they think a spot should be left open, leave it open. If not, don't have a handicapped spot. If people complain, it's on the business to decide. It also depends on the type of business. Hospitals and doctors' offices could choose to have them. Athletic speed performance centers may decide they don't need them. Right now, no one is encouraged by our laws or government health care system to be healthy. America is increasingly obese, and we must not fat shame people. In fact, we are told by the left we must celebrate people's obesity. "It's who they are". There are no incentives for being fit. No incentives to walk. But if we were to mandate spots, let's restrict eligibility and make it tougher. Being a 40-year-old fatass should not be enough.

But if we must have mandated handicapped parking, let's do it more intelligently. Lowe's shouldn't have 15 open prime real estate spots on a crowded business day. Have 15-minute parking. Or open those spaces for everyone between, 6 pm and 8 am. Or if there are say, eight parking spots, let the end spot be for the handicapped; not the one right in front (which requires another adjacent space for loading and unloading).

It's all part of the softening of society. What did people do before 1974? They worked it out. They went when it wasn't busy. They got dropped off. Someone went in for them. They did what they could to become ambulatory again. Or businesses decided for themselves. Forced mandates are not compassion. True disabilities are unfortunate, but you don't make everyone else move heaven and earth to accommodate. Government needs to get the hell out. It's none of their business.

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They've jacked up the costs of hotel rooms as well, with special rooms with hinky bathrooms that nobody likes, and now lifts at the pools and hot tubs that nobody uses.

 

[Oddball]

There are a vast number of reasons why people obtain and need handicapped parking permits.

A lot of the reasons cannot even be seen... orthopedic... cardio... respiratory... whatever...

This is Much Ado About Nothing...

Leave 'em alone...

Easily the most abused permit in all of permitting.

 

[Mashmont]

Nonsense... in most States... mine included... your physician must fill-out a medical certification that you need such a permit.

Most doctors are not keen on the idea of losing their license to practice medicine over a measly and paltry cash bribe.

You're clue-less and just talking Smack that you pulled out of your nether regions...

Doesn't even have to be a doctor to fill it out. Even an NP can do it.

 

[Mashmont]

I don't think there is any evidence for that, and I disagree it's "needless" even if it does.

Does walking a few extra steps really hurt you?

Very nice of you to speak for the 98% who are convenienced day in and day out.

 

[Crepitus]

Very nice of you to speak for the 98% who are convenienced day in and day out.

How inconvenient is a few extra steps?

 

[Mashmont]

How inconvenient is a few extra steps?

Maybe the fatsos scamming the system can't take a few extra steps.

 

[1srelluc]

Hey OP, move to WV, I hear they hand out handicapped placards with smokes and lottery tickets.

The wife and I both have one they are useful at stores but try to find a Handicap spot at a hospital, pharmacy, or doctor's office within 20 miles of the WV line. Nope, not happening.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

I understand handicapped parking here and there, but everywhere I go its a deadly combo of Handicapped, Veteran, Member/VIP, or "Pickup" parking hogging up a dozen parking spaces in front of the store, like seriously, is there really all this need for this elitist parking? Now thats bullshit!

 

[Mashmont]

Hey OP, move to WV, I hear they hand out handicapped placards with smokes and lottery tickets.

The wife and I both have one they are useful at stores but try to find a Handicap spot at a hospital, pharmacy, or doctor's office within 20 miles of the WV line. Nope, not happening.

What do you do when you can't find a spot?

 

[Jarlaxle]

Nonsense... in most States... mine included... your physician must fill-out a medical certification that you need such a permit.

Most doctors are not keen on the idea of losing their license to practice medicine over a measly and paltry cash bribe.

You're clue-less and just talking Smack that you pulled out of your nether regions...

Work on basic reading comprehension. Yours sucks rocks.

 

[Jarlaxle]

They've jacked up the costs of hotel rooms as well, with special rooms with hinky bathrooms that nobody likes, and now lifts at the pools and hot tubs that nobody uses.

Meh. I don't care one way or the other about the accessible rooms-mostly just means a walk-in shower.

Easily the most abused permit in all of permitting.

The biggest reason in this area isn't even the marked parking. It's that the permit allows UNLIMITED time on city streets, WITHOUT paying the meters.