Handicapped Parking Requirements – Some Overlooked Facts
“My friend, Lisa, she suffered an accident 2 years back and her left leg doesn’t work properly since then. She medically belongs to the category of handicap people. Whenever she had to go to the super...
View ArticleNew Smartphone App Helps Combat Illegal Handicapped Parking
May 23, 2012 — Those who illegally park in designated handicapped parking spots and might want to think twice before doing so. The growing issue of able-bodied citizens in handicapped parking has...
View ArticleTailgaters vs. people with disabilities: A game-day battle
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is facing charges that handicapped parking was rented to donors on Cornhuskers’ game days (photo by Kent Sievers, The Omaha World-Herald). 9/18/12 — Whether it’s the...
View ArticleCities may start charging for disabled parking due to widespread fraud
Free disabled parking spots aren’t the problem – it’s when metered parking spots can be occupied for free by anyone with a placard that people tend to take advantage. No one is in favor of making...
View ArticleVolunteer handicap parking enforcement is helping, but is it wrong?
In Boynton Beach and other cities, volunteers have taken over the task of investigating and issuing handicap parking violations. But is this really a good idea? (Via Media Dis&Dat.) We’ve groused...
View ArticleADA disabled parking standards for employees and customers
Providing adequate handicap parking for both employees and customers is not only a good business practice, it’s the law (via Sean Leonard Parry on Flickr, licensed with Creative Commons). Parking is...
View ArticleADA handicap parking rules – signs and painted symbols
If you remove a handicap parking sign from a space but the paint remains, is this spot still legally reserved for the disabled? (Via Too Many Hearts.) A question on our popular post on ADA handicap...
View ArticleAccessible parking sign guerrillas strike Brooklyn
It’s easy to forget that there was a time before the advent of so-called handicapped parking signs in the ’90s – in other words, a time before the Americans with Disabilities Act. Before then, parking...
View ArticleSigns vs. stencils: what are the ADA requirements for disabled parking spots?
We understand more than most how disabled parking issues are complicated. It can be difficult to know whether a business is in compliance – if you’re the business owner or the customer. There are...
View ArticleDisabled parking for tourists in NYC? Fuhgeddaboudit
How accessible is New York? John Robinson’s story sheds some light: John Robinson is 3’9” tall. Earlier this month, he was issued a parking ticket outside a restaurant in the Upper West Side of...
View ArticleCan you still get a ticket if you don’t see a handicap parking sign?
We frequently get great questions from readers about their parking woes, particularly when it comes to disabled parking regulations. Often, a thornier question will send us into wormholes of research...
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