Disabled parking spots in St John’s are exclusively for individuals with disabilities.
Traffic cop Brendan Sutherland urges the public to respect these spaces, warning of a $150 ticket and possible vehicle towing for non-compliance.
Bernard Warner, President of the Antigua and Barbuda Association of Persons with Disabilities, appreciates the police enforcing the tickets.
He emphasizes the need for increased public education on the proper use of disabled parking spots.
In March, Warner and others assessed the city’s accessibility and identified specific streets for designated parking spots.
These spots have been marked with white paint and labeled ‘disabled.’
Warner expresses his delight with the completed action.
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What sort of education is needed? If people park there and they know they are not disabled it is out pure willfulness.
Is the disability parking for Barnard Warner Taxi service? School children want to know how much he charge per trip.
There are ways to control Disability Parking. Transport Board should begin to issue Disability Number Plates also put up signs for those designated areas. Where ever those signs are only cars with the special number plates would park there. It is not that hard a process. In Antigua we seems to make easy things very difficult.
@Wharf Rat I 100% agree. And why white paint that will fades? Blue has always been used for the disabled. Seems Antigua is always last to do the most important things that effect people.
Government needs money. Start handing out tickets to all the drivers that need to go back to driving school.
Parking in disabled parking
Speeding
Stopping on a blind corner or curb in road
Parking on the wrong side of the road
Kids without seat belts
Taxi and bus drives that have little regard for human life. Etc….
YOU’LL COLLECT A FORTUNE. JUST SAYING !
It is a given norm internationally to have disabled designated parking/accessible areas marked in BLUE. It is very easy for anyone trying to find a parking area in St. John”s to just pull in to the marked unsigned spaces without realizing it. It happened to me which I only realised after I transacted my business and went back to my vehicle to leave.
These spaces should be marked with blue paint and a sign erected clearly indicating that the area is reserved for persons with disability. The transport board and police should do what they have to do decently and in order before talking about penalty. Bottom line is ……it is a good initiative but not done properly. We love taking short cuts just to say we have done something. Remember, order is Heavens first law
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