Blue disabled badges

[mikey4444]

Can anyone answer this please ?

If you have a blue disabled badge for your car, can you park on double yellow lines ?

[ChuckFickens]

"In England, Blue Badge holders may generally park:

on single or double yellow lines for up to three hours, unless there is a ban on loading or unloading
at 'on-street' parking meters and pay-and-display machines for free and for as long as they need to
in disabled parking bays"

http://www.direct.gov...adgescheme/DG_4001061

[ChuckFickens]

Also a blue badge doesn't exempt anyone of being guilty of causing an obstruction, so if you park on a double yellow and are deemed to be causing an obstruction you can still be done for that.

[LoftyLottie]

Yes you can, as per what Chuck has said.

I have a blue badge and was really surprised to find I can park on double yellow lines. I haven't, but know I can if I need to - which is great.

[mikey4444]

Thanks....I presume that it would be the same in Wales, where I live ?

[jno]

yes, I wouldn't park on the middle ones here

http://www.oxfordmail...ve_residents_baffled/

[LoftyLottie]

LOL jno.

[ChuckFickens]

Yes the rules are the same for Wales.... the full details of the scheme in wales are here...

http://wales.gov.uk/d...bluebadgeschemeen.pdf

[flip_flop]

"...at 'on-street' parking meters and pay-and-display machines for free..."

Why are they allowed to park for free?

[Mobius1]

I think this rule is stupid.

A hospital near me has a long road outside it double yellows and it's ALWAYS lined with cars parked there with disabled badges on. Now yes, there is a parking issue at the hospital but it's not impossible to park. What gets me is that the people parking out on the road using their badges are doing so to avoid the parking charge. It is further to walk from the road than it is the car park, so how in the world can you justify parking there if you're disabled? That's not what it's meant to be for, it's meant to take into account that you can't get about as easily as others, not that you can't be bothered paying.