FOLLOWING the article in the Argus on April 6 about the Chancellor’s driver parking in a disabled bay at Magor services and also Cllr Jim Higginson’s letter on Monday, April 15, I feel that I must say a big thank-you to Cllr Higginson for sticking up for disabled people.
I have spina bifida and am confined to a wheelchair, I live in Caldicot and travel to and from Newport to work.
I have to get to work at least an hour before I am due in to make sure that I have a parking space, which I can assure anyone some mornings is not as easy as you think.
I don’t really blame the Chancellor’s driver for parking in the bay; he won’t be the first and definitely won’t be the last to do it.
What I do object to, though, is David Davies, MP, actually admitting to parking in disabled bays and finding nothing wrong with it for two minutes and saying that if a disabled person came along wanting the bay they would wait for it.
I would like to say that if all the disabled bays were full I for one would not wait for one to become empty, I could be waiting for ages.
Life is hard enough for disabled people as it is without seeing comments like that.
Sharon Hughes, Nightingale Close, Caldicot
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