Encourage people like this to take up mountain biking or skateboarding or something - find out how much of a pain in the ass it is trying to get around on crutches for 8 weeks or so, then use the tiniest scrap of empathy to imagine what it would be like to have that be your permanent experience
To be fair, at least here in Germany, the amount of parking spots for disabled people and the amount of actually disabled people parking don’t really seem to match. There’s often enough a whole bunch of parking spots empty and like one guy on crutches.
I do get, that planners and regulators need to plan for the “worst case”, and that’s perfectly fine, but the current situation is certainly a bit wasteful.
Might seem a bit controversial but, I think disabled spots should be the more obvious spots, places in front of shops and on the street.
If you aren’t disabled, you should be parked further away, in something like a multistorey carpark.
In an ideal world, there would just be less cars.
I always park fairly far away from the building. I’m sure there are people who need to park closer, and I get a little bit more walkies in. Win-win!
In an ideal world they’re would only be disabled spots and all other would use public transport
You can’t always tell someone is disabled from looking at them. They may need the spot for a reason you haven’t thought of.
https://invisibledisabilities.org/publications/accessibleparking/dontjudgebyappearances/
I’m not talking about people taking disabled spots, I’m talking about these spots being empty, because there are not that many people who could use these spots.
My comment was very clear, but you chose to read what you wanted, because that’s more convenient.
So you concede that the people who have built their career around issues like planning for an appropriate volume of handicapped parking should design for less than what they find necessary so that you, a presumably able-bodied person, don’t have to walk past a few more parking spaces?
I don’t even have a car.
I’m 100% sure that these regulations are political, not technical/scientific.
Some regulatory body decided for political reasons that this percentage of parking spots is required, that’s it. There’s no committee of experts actually evaluating how many spots are needed.