We need to just stop giving sub-classes of people special privileges and statuses. If you are truly disabled, like can’t walk or stuff, I don’t have a problem for that. Too many ‘disabled’ that are not disabled today.
If you’re not truly disabled, motor disabled, can’t walk, too bad. Kids? Kids are not a disability, they are a choice. Hybrid? You’re already saving money over the rest of us, go park with the rest of us.
Given this is MN, next will be parking for transgendered dwarfs and somali pirates.
I can't stand entitled people.
I’m going to ostentatiously park my V-8 Truck in a “fuel efficient” slot. What are they going to do?
Park in them anyway. There’s no way to legally enforce crap like that...unless we give in willingly.
My Sprinter can use biodiesel and thus qualifies. There is no biodiesel available but I get the space anyway
My 9 passenger Chevy Caprice Station Wagon is really eficient when it’s filled with people ... much more so than a hybrid driven by a singleton.
I usually see these two women,pull up in separate cars with the the disabled placards,park in the disabled spot,get the dogs out and proceed to hike a few miles over the trails.
There are plenty of parking spaces available,so they don’t impinge on me in any way,it is just the gall of it all.
seems upside down to me. reserved parking for hybrids should be farthest away from the store. They use less gas so they can go farther for less.
The honking SUV\Pickup trucks should park closer so we can save gas.
It turned out that the driver was, in fact, disabled. He had neglected to hang his permit from his mirror. He paid me a visit, on crutches, in my office -- to thank me for enforcing the regulation. I arranged to have our company pay the tow fee.
The handicapped parking stuff, and the parking for hybrids, and the parking for pregnant women, and parking for people with babies or small children, etc. can go way too far. But any able-bodied person who parks in a "handicapped" space should be fined.
When I see those “Hybrid only” parking spots I try to take two of them ;-)
Indeed. Which is more "efficient"?
1. a minivan that gets 25 MPG with 6 passengers
2. a hybrid that gets 40 MPG, but only has one passenger?
This is so moronic. People should just ignore it just like those idiots who park their giant size SUVs in the COMPACT spots, which actually are physically smaller.
Able bodied people should park in the furthest spot away anyway and walk for the exercise.
I’ve also noticed that if municipalities want to make some dough, just put a cop outside any establishment selling liquor and ticket all the lazy drunks who insist on parking their car right on the curb, clearly marked FIRE LANE or NO PARKING. Seriously, dipsos, can you not read?