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Will new parking rules help disabled?

Posted by Steve Wilkinson on April 5, 2008 11:40 AM | 

Fellow disabled motorists could understandably get excited at last week's change in the rules about parking control.

Supposedly, amongst other changes, CCTV is going to be used to catch offenders. But will this make any difference to the continuing abuse of blue badges.

Only last week, over the course of about half an hour while shopping in the area, I watched a single disabled parking bay just off Gosforth High Street have 4 different vehicles parked in it that weren't displaying a blue badge.

So where are the traffic wardens (I think they're now called parking attendants - it's a cosmetic change like calling linesmen, assistant referees)? I don't think there are enough on patrol.

A single warden standing on the corner could pay his wages and more by applying the £30 penalty tickets.

So come on, Council. Take your parking control duties seriously and really clamp down on this parking abuse. Or is that a vote loser at the next election?

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