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Hadicap parking spaces

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LeadMagnet

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I am working in a building with not enough parking spaces. The company even built a smal parking garage to handle the problem ,but that was out grown the day it was built. Some people need to park at another building and walk over.

There are 33 handicap parking spaces in the back of the build and a bunch more in the front, only 2 spaces being used!
 
we also have a bunch of "Expecting mother" and "Parent with infant" spaces too. Soon we'll have elderly parking spots, fat people parking spaces, and blind people parking.
 
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
we also have a bunch of "Expecting mother" and "Parent with infant" spaces too. Soon we'll have elderly parking spots, fat people parking spaces, and blind people parking.
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heh
 
We have the same problem at my company. There is nothing you can do about it except come in earlier to work to get a better spot!
 
I'd come up with a sticker to cover up fat people parking, but years ago I saw a bumper sticker on a car with handicap tags that said "I'll gladly trade you my parking space for you legs." I love it! Though I'm guessing the point of your post isn't that handicap spots exist, but that so many exist which aren't being used.
 
I don't have a problem with the amount of handicap spaces in many parking lots. My problem is seeing someone obviously not handicap using a space.
 
I know where the OP is coming from. Before we had our new garage built, you had to come in really early to get a spot to park in the old garage, and if you didn't make it early enough, you had to park about 4 blocks away in an uncovered, unsecured lot. It sucked. Bad. In winter. And the entire front side of the garage was handicapped parking, of which at the most, maybe 5 or 6 spots were used out of ~20.
 
Our company started out with too many handicapped spaces but once they saw what the actual demand was (about 8-10 a day, instead of the 25 they had marked off) they just repainted 10 of the spaces to be regular parking. Still had a few free each day.

Net effect? Nil. People still complained just as much.

Let's say your place has 40 handicapped spaces. If they changed 25 of them back to regular parking, how many people would still have to walk from the other building?
 
Originally posted by: kranky
Our company started out with too many handicapped spaces but once they saw what the actual demand was (about 8-10 a day, instead of the 25 they had marked off) they just repainted 10 of the spaces to be regular parking. Still had a few free each day.

Net effect? Nil. People still complained just as much.

Let's say your place has 40 handicapped spaces. If they changed 25 of them back to regular parking, how many people would still have to walk from the other building?
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25 less than now, I imagine
 
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
Originally posted by: kranky
Our company started out with too many handicapped spaces but once they saw what the actual demand was (about 8-10 a day, instead of the 25 they had marked off) they just repainted 10 of the spaces to be regular parking. Still had a few free each day.

Net effect? Nil. People still complained just as much.

Let's say your place has 40 handicapped spaces. If they changed 25 of them back to regular parking, how many people would still have to walk from the other building?
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25 less than now, I imagine
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:roll:

 
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
Originally posted by: kranky
Our company started out with too many handicapped spaces but once they saw what the actual demand was (about 8-10 a day, instead of the 25 they had marked off) they just repainted 10 of the spaces to be regular parking. Still had a few free each day.

Net effect? Nil. People still complained just as much.

Let's say your place has 40 handicapped spaces. If they changed 25 of them back to regular parking, how many people would still have to walk from the other building?
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25 less than now, I imagine
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HAHAHAHAHAHAA

 
I absolutely see the need for handicap spaces, and understand its better to have a few extras than not enough, but I can remember a few years ago at my college that there was a serious problem with their allocation.

Next to the gym, of all buildings, there was a small parking lot with about 25 spaces. No less than 8 of them were handicap spaces. At a school of 2400, while small, a parking lot that small was ridiculous to begin with for a building that got as much use as it did. But 8/25 spaces being set aside for handicap spots when I think in my 4 years at the school I saw one of them used, once...well lets just say they might have done a bit more research into how many they should have put there.
 
I would guess that a company catches all sorts of crap if they don't have enough handicap spaces. Who can blame them for a little overkill if it saves them from bad publicity, lawsuits, etc?
 
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
I am working in a building with not enough parking spaces. The company even built a smal parking garage to handle the problem ,but that was out grown the day it was built. Some people need to park at another building and walk over.

There are 33 handicap parking spaces in the back of the build and a bunch more in the front, only 2 spaces being used!
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YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD......
 
is there some kind of requirement on the number of handicapped spots depending on the building size / capacity it's for ?
 
Originally posted by: rh71
is there some kind of requirement on the number of handicapped spots depending on the building size / capacity it's for ?
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I'm pretty sure it's determined by the city, so it could be anything from a number based on building size or % of spaces.
 
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