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24/08/2012
Hundreds Park In Blue Badge Bays
More than 500 people have been fined for parking illegally in disabled bays in Londonderry, Coleraine, Limavady and Strabane this year.
The figures for the north west of Northern Ireland come from the Department for Regional Development.
Orla McCann works for Disability Action.
She told the BBC: "If you have a blue badge, you need it, so for people to be parking in those spaces without any sort of concern or respect for the inconvenience that they're causing for disabled people just isn't right."
She welcomed the fines but called for specialist parking attendants to focus on "the abuse of the blue badge system".
(NE)
The figures for the north west of Northern Ireland come from the Department for Regional Development.
Orla McCann works for Disability Action.
She told the BBC: "If you have a blue badge, you need it, so for people to be parking in those spaces without any sort of concern or respect for the inconvenience that they're causing for disabled people just isn't right."
She welcomed the fines but called for specialist parking attendants to focus on "the abuse of the blue badge system".
(NE)
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