the Parking lot is clearly marked with white lines. There is a large blue disability parking card at the door with a drawing of a person in a wheelchair, and a sign underneath that says that the only car with this license plate may park on the square.
the license Plate number on the sign is identical with the one that sits on Sonja Halses car. It is her personal parking lot, but several times a month, the site is still occupied by other cars, when she comes home from either work or shopping.
– I get angry and irritated, for there is thus a need for, that I’ve got the space, says Sonja Necks, which in addition of the like of sclerosis also is afflicted with a foot drop.
– I goes really bad. I always use a cane, and I can’t go very far, so I need to keep here, for it is the space closest to my apartment, she says.
and to sit, people are still in the car, when she comes, and then she drives up to them and ask them to move.
– Often, so apologize and move with the same, but occasionally there is someone who is very rude. There was recently a motorist who refused to move, and instead shouted ‘crazy bitch’ after me, before he spat on my car window, tells Sonja Tack.
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It is not only Sonja Halse, who are experiencing problems with unauthorised drivers recorder handikappladserne. TV 2 Lorry has checked a handful of handikapparkeringspladser in Copenhagen, and both at the Tivoli, at the Christiansborg palace and two of The parking spaces kept there cars without a valid handikapskilt on handikappladserne.
the city of Copenhagen’s traffic wardens are printing more and more taxes to people who keep illegally on handikappladserne.
In 2017, awarded the 1805 parking fees to drivers who held illegal on handikappladser. In 2018, the number of car parking charges to 2046, and though 2019 is not yet completed, so is the figure already surpassed in the year. A statement from the 8. november shows until then is printed 2190 charges to people who has wrongfully kept on a municipal disabled parking bay.
– It is highly worrying. There are some people who have a need for the parking spaces, but then can’t get them, because they are busy, and it means, therefore, to make it harder for them to get their lives together. So I would like to encourage people to be there to hold there, says Thorkild Olesen, president of Danish Handikaporganisationer.
It costs usually 510 dollars, if a municipal traffic warden put a greeting under vinduesviskeren. But since 2015, the local authorities have been allowed to double the tax, if the parking is done on a handikapplads. Therefore, the costs of the misdemeanor in the city of Copenhagen 1020 dollars.
If people are not sitting in the car, that keeps on Sonja Halses car park, when she comes home, then she will call the police. It happens according to her, two to three times a month.
– It is the only way I can get the car moved on. So turns the police car up and calling to the owner who then comes down to move it. It often takes a lot of time, and it is annoying to wait for, but it solves at least the problem, says Sonja Tack.
She is also experiencing that problem with people parking in her space, is increasing. But she welcomes it so that also means that more people have a parking fee.
– It is crazy that there are so many who hold on to our seats. It should not be, so there is a good reason that they handikappladser is there. But it is good that the motorists so get fines, so they can maybe learn from it, and will hopefully make it that they do not keep on a handikapplads the next time, says Sonja Tack.
