I'm very glad that they're tackling folk who park in parent and child bays. £70 fine for anyone caught by the monitored car parks. I sincerely hope there's a ticket coming to anyone who thinks it's acceptable to watch a parent struggle.

It's hard work getting a baby in and out of a car and am very grateful for the extra room as you often have to open the doors wide and then manoeuvre a pram through the gap.

TBH our local Tesco and Asda have been ticketing parent Bay misuse for at least a year now.

Most caught are vans, or parents with teenage kids. Signs on every Bay show it's for children up to 3 Tesco or 4 at Asda

Spaces near the shop for lazy people without kids?

Nope, just disabled bays, then normal bays, they parent bays

You might want to include cars only fitted with two side doors as they are at least a third bigger than a four-door car..LOL

I have seen folk struggling to squeeze out the door when parked correctly in a marked car-park space.. with their door bang smack against the car next to them..

I suggest rather than restricting to those with Terminal Subdermal Larditis you have "Ignorant ****** Bays". For everyone that doesn't give a **** about anyone elses car. these can then be used by the extra-wide, the old and ignorant or just plain old ******s.

 

These bays would be located between blue badge bays or in front of the store across the zebra crossing.

Haha, destruction derby style parking bays. I can hear all the car doors getting dinged as I type this. 

Parking at the supermarket can be quite a worrying ordeal! Even when you park at the furthest end of an empty carpark, you'll come back to find a battered Toyta Yaris or something parked next to you and instantly think the worst as you approach your car

You might want to include cars only fitted with two side doors as they are at least a third bigger than a four-door car..LOL

I have seen folk struggling to squeeze out the door when parked correctly in a marked car-park space.. with their door bang smack against the car next to them..

Our Fiat 500 has really big doors. And they are thick too 

which makes it worse. I never take the Audi (also 2 door) to 

the supermarket, too many dozy women who park by sound

use ours. I use the van, I don't care if that gets a whack.

My local asda has too been ticketing misuse of parent bays for a while but the tickets fall into the whole private car park thing so no doubt plenty are ignored. I see often people parking in these bays without kids and me been known to be a slight gobsh1te often ask where there kids are. Usual get no answer or told to shut up lol.

I didnt appeciate parent bays till i had children then these bays made perfect sense

High time places like Asda either made the wide bays child or disabled or started to target those parents who can't tell the difference between a pushchair and a wheelchair. There's two disabled spaces near the cash point in ours and they're always filled with cars with kid seats and no badge. But let a Blue Badge holder park in a kiddie space and like a pack of feral animals the mothers gang up and give verbal .Again it's only of late that you have to prove you are entitled to a Badge, so there's a lot of unrest amongst thoseof us who gained ours through assessment. I'm one of the regular scooter users in store. WHY- after being hit twice by

Colleagues in Asda ( too busy gossiping to see me),and a few near misses I prefer to have some protection  as a fall might mean a spell in hospital .

I Wish there was a 'Like the whole thread'  button for this.

This has just reminded me, at the massive tesco near me they used to have these talking voice things when you pulled into a disabled or parent space that asked you rhetorically if you were allowed to park there, they didn't last long alas, everybody knows that certain types of drivers have absolutely no spacial awareness, most these things just got knocked over and smashed in, I even saw one once where the driver in the 4x4 had just hit the thing and in was still stuck under the wagon, but unbeknown to the driver they just merrily went in the shop blissfully unaware that they had hit it.

I watched a dozy cow at Tescos in a Merc ML reverse and hit the same

bollard three times on the bounce last week.

Good job it wasn't something organic eh?

She couldn't understand why I was laughing at her and shaking my head. 

She was ENTIRELY unaware she'd done it. God help anyone stupid

enough to be on foot behind her car, A complete and utter danger to all

around her and the sort of airhead that will most likely knock me off my bike

one day.  

Yeah. I think everybody with a nice car needs somethin else to go shoppin in tbh.

I hate supermarket carparks

I had another thought for this thread earlier. I was sat in tesco car park (In a normal bay) and I saw a bloke pull up and park in a child bay at the front of the store. He was childless and walked off into the shop. he returned about 20 min later with a bag of shopping and a large box containing a TV. Although a car was parked on each side of him he just about managed to get the TV into the back of his car and cleared off home to watch it. 

 

My thought was, the spaces are there to enable people to load a child in and out without hitting the cars next to them with the doors, is it acceptable to park there for the same reason but with a TV or other large object needing to be loaded into the car? Thoughts? 

They hit your doors whether theyve got a child/tv or not in a regular bay though.

Not because there isnt enough room, just because people dont care enough.

Some people do yeah, no respect.