Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Parking Abuse Message-ID: <6649@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 17:35:30 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6649 Posted: Tue Dec 18 17:35:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 01:04:11 EST References: <121@iris.UUCP> <4000022@hp-pcd.UUCP> <2032@nsc.UUCP> Organization: USAMC ALMSA Lines: 21 The problem is that the implementors of the "handicapped parking space" concept have made no provisions for the TEMPORARILY handicapped and have dragged in state motor-vehicle-codes and departments when it could have been implemented without governmental involvement. At least here in Missouri, it isn't enough to have a "wheelchair symbol" sticker on your window or bumper; you have to have an "official" license plate with the wheelchair symbol embossed on it. And nothing was done to consider the valid needs of someone with a broken leg or other temporary disablement, who should have just as much access to handicapped parking spaces as those permanently disabled. In addition, suppose you have a PASSENGER in your car who is disabled, but you (the driver and/or owner) are not disabled? The needs of that passenger are just as valid as the needs of some other disabled person who happens to own and be driving a car with the aforementioned license plate. All in all, a badly designed and poorly implemented system, based on laudable motives, but destroyed, as usual, by the involvement of government. Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA