“I think Martin is doing a good job and this is a worthwhile scheme to not only protect the real badge owners but stop others using them, more enforcement will catch them. Name and Shame them”

“I hope the crackdown will include the police car parked in a disabled spot at Asda Mount Pleasant forcing disabled drivers like myself to park further away from the store.”

“I've just driven from castle Hill hospital and A builders van was parked half on the kerb and on the zig zag at the mini roundabout on Castle Road...he'll get away with it, cos the odds are no one will stop to give him a ticket. No cops about, see. We're all as bad as each other so don't have a go at the badgie man.
I'm surprised so many get uptight about a poxy badge...what you should be gettting excited about is the Inland Revenue letting Vodafone get awat with £47 million in unpaid tax, recently. Anyone of you, who are self-emplyed will know that as soon as your tax return is a day late, you'll get a hundred quid ticket, but not the big companys because they all pally with the civil servants. Now there's sommat to maon about.”

“@Digipen

I can see your valid point. However, what if the disabled person was not in the vehicle but the badge was. The two people you saw, running back to the car, took advantage of this and used it for their own selfish needs. They committed the offence not the disabled person. Remember not all badges are issued to people who drive but may be issued for children or non drivers. Hence the reason why you may see Grandma sitting in the passenger seat whilst others do their, not her, shopping. This is clearly an abuse of the system as well.

The issuing of Blue Badges to people with a 'substantial impairment' that affects their walking/mobility is to provide help for them. The impairment may not always be one that is easily identifiable to the public eye. Remember this is called Mobility which does require the person to be able to move around to gain from having it.

With regards to where this happened on Holderness Road, any street corner along that section of road is constantly, and blatantly used to commit this type of parking offence. More often than not by able bodied persons. Funny thing is they don't seem to get caught either.”

“Check out Morrill street and Sherburn street off Holderness road any weekday and you will see total abuse of this system, like the two perfectly fit women who came running round the corner of Sherburn street whilst i was stood there and nearly bumped into a warden who was in the process of actually taking some action against their car because the rear end was no more than 2mtrs from the corner. obviously the badge could not have been theirs, if so a crackdown is well and truly overdue, and i hope this particular badge was withdrawn for their part in its fraudulent use.”

“The abuse and offences committed by able bodied drivers is something to be seen to be believed. Take the, so called, law abiding motorists who make inflated insurance claims, or accidents that never happen but get claimed for, the favourite at the moment being whiplash. There are so many I would not even attempt to list them.

Mention Blue Badge holders and everyone turns into a Hospital Consultant, Specialist Doctor or Lawyer all willing to give their 'unbiased' opinions Oh! a Blue Badge, I wish I could get one. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Let's hope that if you ever do have to get one your disability is judged and SEEN by others to be severe enough to qualify.

If, as has been suggested, these badges are being obtained without medical need, then surely Doctors are giving false information and therefore are guilty of deception. Or, just maybe, with their medical knowledge and expertise, they are able to make a decision based on knowing the patient and their disability, seen or unseen, limp or no limp.

Ever since photo's became a part of the Blue Badge system it has been very easy to police. If it was never intended for the badges to be checked for identity why introduce it. The new badges will also fail if no one ever checks them. I understand Parking Wardens are to be given cameras, why? Isn't the picture on the badge proof of the badge holder's identity. If they are to photograph people leaving vehicles why not just ask to see the badge? The information will still have to be verified and this can only be done by having the holder and the badge in the same place at the same time. Just like Passport checks.”

“I believe some people can get the blue badge by having a heart condition which means they can't walk far without becoming breathless, therefore they would not necessarily have a limp. The people that park in the disabled areas or the parent and child spaces are the worst offenders, thinking they are only popping in for 5 minutes or getting some money out of the cash machines.

Anyone that can use a bogus badge has no morals, but there are plenty of people like that unfortunately, they go through life thinking only of themselves but one day something will happen to them and they will say, 'oh why me, I've never hurt anyone'.”

“Theres people i know who have a car on disability they are more able than most ,they get free road tax aswell as the car ,they are stood in betting shop most of the day apart from the few games of snooker they go and have , good life for some ,at the cost of us workers get a grip goverment and sort it!”

“good comments again thinking on the lines of what i think, bit disapointed my dislikes havent gone up, maybe if there wasnt so many people who use badges for their own gain or able disabled there would be more spaces for the proper disabled in which most times there would be no need to park in standard spaces so no need to pay in pain,my dad has a residential space outside our home so he can get in easier and yet another disabled driver parked in it once even through it was further from his destination then a normal space”

“Ainthorpe primary school at about 3.10. Same ones every day, also might catch that selfish minibus taxi driver who parks on the yellow zigzags there as well”