On 01/02/2018 15:04, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:33:42 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Andrew wrote:
One of the presenters of the Last Leg, with funny hands and
an artificial leg, has a blue badge which coincidentally
allows free parking.

But he manages to jet all around the world to the paralympics
and make it to the C4 studios every week, and is obviously not
short of money.

Meaning a disabled parking permit should only be available to the poor?

I thought they were availble to those that are disabled, or at least that's who they should be aimed at.


That would cure the problem since they probably couldn't afford a car.

Or you could insist they hand in their application forms at an office on a mountain top somewhere.


So he has a disability, but is he 'disabled' ?.

Would you be willing to trade a leg for a disabled parking permit?

Bit of an unfair question, would anyone with one false leg settle for a closer parking space if they gave up their remaining working leg ?

I'm not sure how disabled badges indicate how disabled a person is, but I would assume that someone with no arms and no legs would get a higher disability rating than someone with just one disabled leg, and the fact that they can win an olypmic running meddle shou,d mean that their disabled spot could be located in the same area as anyone else that has never won an omlypic medal for running.

Disabilities are indeed graded and affect whether someone is expected to
work and how much benefit they get to cope with the increased costs of
their disability (extra tansport costs, extra heating requirements, etc.)

The blue badge is not graded. You can only get one if you cannot walk
more than 50 metres without significant effort, pain, breathlessness;
need support equipment that requires extra space around the car to get
it in and out; are a driver rather than passenger by have problems with
your arms and cannot use a parking meter; are registered blind; along
with another group that have non-physical problems such as debilitating
anxiety outdoors - this is not an exhaustive list, just the most obvious
ones.

SteveW