Blue badge price increase.

[Fly]

Not sure I agree with the price increase, but I do agree with the clampdown on misuse of them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8982351/Fivefold-rise-in-cost-of-Blue-Badge-to-combat-fraud.html

[Pete]

>> overall Blue Badge fraud is estimated to cost the country £46 million a year.

Wow! 

Good article though.

[simondjuk]

Its about time something was done about it.  However it being unfair to the people who genuinely need one.

It also needs to be clamped down on what constitutes someone having a badge.  I see it regular near work, the amount of people who put a badge in the window of their car and walk off to go shopping.  If they can walk to the shops, they can walk from the car park or paid space.

I also dont understand why these users seem to think its a pass to park anywhere they want.  Arent double yellow lines there to show no-one should park there, able or disabled?