Parent and child parking Belfast- plea for support

[wws]

Hello fellow Mums.

Does anyone else get frustrated struggling to get the car seat in and out when there are no parent and child spaces?

I find it very difficult and just after my son was born and I had a lot of stiches it was physically impossible. Therefore I had to park over two bays in a Roads Service car park for which I got ticketed. I appealed but was rejected and am appealing again.

Apparently parent and child spaces are a courtesy but unfortunately the Road service lacks the courtesy to make one of their 33, 380 spaces a parent and child bay. So us parents end up having to contort ourselves into impossible postions trying to squeeze our children in without hitting the cars next to us. As there is no legislation to require parent and child bays they just don't bother.

The issue is that the Roads Service is a public body, and parents with young children are a sizeable proportion of the public, therefore they should be required by legislation to provide spaces for us.

I would like to get some legislation in place to require them to do so. I have already contacted my MP to request a meeting and am going to be on to the Stephen Nolan radio show tomorrow to discuss it.

PLEASE call in to support me if you can ( as am very nervous ) or if anyone knows how to set up an online petition could they let me know?

Thanks for your support

[saintlydamemrsturnip]

Did you have to take your car seat out? I'd just have removed the baby I think leaving car seat behind.
I suspect they'll say if your stitches were that bad you shouldn't have been driving.

Sorry!

[wws]

I was medically fit to drive but still bit sore

I needed to get the car seat out to use travel system.
I am not so much annoyed by the ticket but by the fact the Roads Service, the public body, does not even have one parent and child space in any of its car parks. I think they should have to provide some.