EU not accepting UK Blue badges

Snapster said:
Don’t know about other EU countries, but in France, free parking for everyone is the norm. It’s only in some larger towns or in some holiday resorts that you have to pay and park, and then the prices are usually much lower than the U.K.
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For the wife the Blue badge isn’t anything to do with free parking it’s about being able to park closer, especially at supermarkets , if she had to park at the back of a supermarket car park then walk around the store most days she wouldn’t be able to manage it.
But because of the type of car she drives and the way she looks, she will often come back to the car to find a parking attendant,or some do Gooder waiting to have ago at her, despite her blue badge being on display, she has even come back to her car being blocked in by other blue badge holders, because they seem to think that anyone driving her type of car cannot be disabled,
She doesn’t claim any disability benefits even though she could but we don’t need them, the only thing she needs is the blue badge to allow her to park closer,
Although most of the time she uses the supermarket click and collect service which has been a life saver for her
 
RichardHelen262 said:
For the wife the Blue badge isn’t anything to do with free parking it’s about being able to park closer, especially at supermarkets , if she had to park at the back of a supermarket car park then walk around the store most days she wouldn’t be able to manage it.
But because of the type of car she drives and the way she looks, she will often come back to the car to find a parking attendant,or some do Gooder waiting to have ago at her, despite her blue badge being on display, she has even come back to her car being blocked in by other blue badge holders, because they seem to think that anyone driving her type of car cannot be disabled,
She doesn’t claim any disability benefits even though she could but we don’t need them, the only thing she needs is the blue badge to allow her to park closer,
Although most of the time she uses the supermarket click and collect service which has been a life saver for her
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Should claim everything as it is her entitlement.
 
Throw loads of stressed, overworked people into a regular supermarket carpark at busy times, or into any other type of big, busy, popular carpark (often where 'shopping' is normally involved - or tourism!) and you will always get people fighting for a parking space, disabled or not.

The disabled bays are premium spaces for obvious reasons. Sometimes seen by the intellectually challenged as an inconvenient 'privilege'.

There's usually not enough spaces, but I'm guessing it's a balancing act working out how many you need - must be very similar to working out how many of these new 'motorhome only' parking spaces are needed that have slowly arisen over the last two years (y);):devilish:

A minority of selfish, 'me me me' non-disabled folk who take a f-you attitude and will always risk parking in a disabled only space regardless. 🤷‍♀️

There's another lot (I just assume it's a small percentage) with a badge who shouldn't be using the spaces because the badge is not theirs, or it's fake/stolen.

Then there are the genuinely disabled who have to fight for these (often insufficient) places with both of the above.

And then there are the last, but not least, genuine disabled badge holders who occasionally also *challenge each other* because they don't believe the other party can possibly be genuinely disabled :oops: :cool:

Dog eat dog world innit. 🙃;)
 
mariesnowgoose said:
Throw loads of stressed, overworked people into a regular supermarket carpark at busy times, or into any other type of big, busy, popular carpark (often where 'shopping' is normally involved - or tourism!) and you will always get people fighting for a parking space, disabled or not.

The disabled bays are premium spaces for obvious reasons. Sometimes seen by the intellectually challenged as an inconvenient 'privilege'.

There's usually not enough spaces, but I'm guessing it's a balancing act working out how many you need - must be very similar to working out how many of these new 'motorhome only' parking spaces are needed that have slowly arisen over the last two years (y);):devilish:

A minority of selfish, 'me me me' non-disabled folk who take a f-you attitude and will always risk parking in a disabled only space regardless. 🤷‍♀️

There's another lot (I just assume it's a small percentage) with a badge who shouldn't be using the spaces because the badge is not theirs, or it's fake/stolen.

Then there are the genuinely disabled who have to fight for these (often insufficient) places with both of the above.

And then there are the last, but not least, genuine disabled badge holders who occasionally also *challenge each other* because they don't believe the other party can possibly be genuinely disabled :oops: :cool:

Dog eat dog world innit. 🙃;)
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Possibly there is a proscribed formula for disabled bays ? Certainly local authority controlled on street parking .
Wouldn't go in a disabled bay at a supermarket but these family bays can get tae somewhere
 
There is little reason, if any, why parent and child places need to be next to the supermarket entrance. If they were at the far end of the car park they wouldn’t be abused.
 
Jo001 said:
There is little reason, if any, why parent and child places need to be next to the supermarket entrance. If they were at the far end of the car park they wouldn’t be abused.
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Think they'd be better if they had an upper age limit

As maingate said as a joke above, but thinking about it... I can understand if you have really small babies and toddlers, which can make shopping with them in tow pretty stressful at times.

But older kids...? Why?! Seems nonsensical to me 🤷‍♀️
 
mariesnowgoose said:
Think they'd be better if they had an upper age limit

As maingate said as a joke above, but thinking about it... I can understand if you have really small babies and toddlers, which can make shopping with them in tow pretty stressful at times.

But older kids...? Why?! Seems nonsensical to me 🤷‍♀️
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My mate who lives next door but 1 takes his very independant mother ( lives by herself but does not drive now ) shopping once a week.

She does not have a blue badge so they happily park in the " Parent & Child " spots near the door.

Pete is 64 and his mother is 93 :)
 
Supermarkets here dont challenge where or who parks in any space as long as in buying, except The Abbey center who now have parking meters for stays over 2 hrs, this is because folk were leaving their cars and bussing to work in Belfast, even staff must pay.
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I have a Blue Badge, and I am often guilty of forgetting to put it on the dash, I'm not alone in that I often pull up and then someone else pulls up next to me and jumps out I like to remind them that they have forgotten to put theirs on the dash, I often get told to F off, I usually thank them for their direct approach.

Our local supermarkets all seem to site the ATMs right next to the disabled parking which is a bit stupid.


And has been said not all disabilities are obvious or visible, often t can be the passenger who has the badge and the driver isn't up to the rules and regs.

However the OP is about them in the EU.


Seems no one is saying an actual no, just not made their bloody minds up yet ****.
www.gov.uk

Using a Blue Badge in Europe

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Jo001 said:
There is little reason, if any, why parent and child places need to be next to the supermarket entrance. If they were at the far end of the car park they wouldn’t be abused.
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I would have thought it obvious to anyone who has a small child, a trolley, maybe more than one child, and it most supermarket car parks idiots who forget there are people walking about, I use them if the blue badge bays are all taken but put my badge in the window.
 
I would imagine that in time the will be recognised in the EU. We used to spend lots of time in the US before covid and never had a problem using the badge.
 
2cv said:
I would imagine that in time the will be recognised in the EU. We used to spend lots of time in the US before covid and never had a problem using the badge.
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Ah, but - 'scuse my ignorance on the subject - were Blue Badges accepted in the EU before the 'B' word? :unsure:

Just askin' :) 🙃
 
mariesnowgoose said:
Ah, but - 'scuse my ignorance on the subject - were Blue Badges accepted in the EU before the 'B' word? :unsure:

Just askin' :) 🙃
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Yes they were
Down in Spain a few years ago we were parked in a disabled parking slot when we got back we were blocked in by a couple of Spanish guys, fortunately I saw them sit down at a table outside a cafe just at the side of the motorhome, and despite the blue badge being I the window,
When I asked if they would mind letting us out I got a torrent of abuse from them whilst pointing at the disable sign, until I opened the door of the motorhome and lifted out the blue badge to show them
Then their attitude changed and they couldn’t stop apologising.
 
RichardHelen262 said:
Yes they were
Down in Spain a few years ago we were parked in a disabled parking slot when we got back we were blocked in by a couple of Spanish guys, fortunately I saw them sit down at a table outside a cafe just at the side of the motorhome, and despite the blue badge being I the window,
When I asked if they would mind letting us out I got a torrent of abuse from them whilst pointing at the disable sign, until I opened the door of the motorhome and lifted out the blue badge to show them
Then their attitude changed and they couldn’t stop apologising.
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They never got over the sinking of the armada. 😂
 
2cv said:
I would imagine that in time the will be recognised in the EU. We used to spend lots of time in the US before covid and never had a problem using the badge.
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not a great vote catcher, bothering disabled folk
 
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