Avoidable issues for the disabled

[mtbc]

City center traders in Perth are having the council reduce the number of disabled parking bays. There already isn't a great abundance of them. I wonder to what extent people appreciate that for the disabled a lack of spaces on their target street could easily mean a wholly aborted trip.

I see what I think we now call little people around Dundee. What fraction do have some medical condition causing dwarfism I don't know but I imagine that even something as simple as being unusually short is more inconvenient than I realize and sometimes needlessly so. I recently saw some food and drink being offered from a high countertop and I had a vision of people having to grumpily unstrap their foldable stool from their back. I don't know what they actually do but I suspect it often tests their patience.

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[mindstalk]

At least in the US, there's a huge rate of disabled placard fraud, to take advantage of the free parking.

[mtbc]

That's a good and unfortunate point: one of the many car-related problems arising from inadequate enforcement. The European Union placards are like triple-sized driver licenses but the photograph is on the side one puts face down. Perhaps it would help to include photographs that face outward so that everybody can see who the user is supposed to be.