It's a great money spinner for the councils,in Harrogate they have created a ridiculous amount of "disabled" parking spaces,I'm not against special concessions for disabled at all and as it is they can stop nearly anywhwere apart from a taxi rank.
The problem is the ratio is all wrong,if you had 2 % of disabled people in Harrogate then you do not need 25% disabled parking spaces,so outside the popular Mcdonalds its all disabled parking,the council know a hungry person is going to chance it and nip in for his big mac,meanwhile the security camera spins round,parking please are aletred and rush to nab him
Meanwhile the 20 disabled parking spaces behind him are usually all empty
I hate the greed and stealth tax of things like this.
Meanwhile so much money is raised we have lots of parking offices driving in lots of shiny new vans
