Disabled toilets

[Linford]

Like me I'm registered disabled and also have a RADAR key for locked disabled toilets.
Apparently you can buy these keys on ebay

My mate had a big off a few years ago and was wheelchair bound....broken hip, broken femur, knackered cruciate ligament......He didn't have a Radar key and didn't qualify for use of disabled spaces which kind of limited things for him and me when I was running him around.

Would I qualify for a radar key as an insulin dependent diabetic ?

 

[marinyork]

Is this actually illegal though or just immoral? Genuine question as I don't drive so don't know. I have two family members in wheelchairs and one doesn't bother as her chair is electric but the other gets furious about it, although she's generally quite an angry person anyway.

A very large number of disabled parking spaces are not legally enforced e.g. supermarkets, ones the council has painted on the road for people but doesn't "control". You might be given a polite notice on your windscreen by an organisation, you might have someone doing a DIY one, you might be given a demand for money by a private company or get into a balling match with a neighbour, but they aren't legally enforceable in many cases.

 

[marzjennings]

I use wheel chair accessible loos with no guilt. As far as I understand it, they are toilets made to be wheel chair accessible, not made solely for those in a wheel chair.

 

[coffeejo]

Is this actually illegal though or just immoral? Genuine question as I don't drive so don't know. I have two family members in wheelchairs and one doesn't bother as her chair is electric but the other gets furious about it, although she's generally quite an angry person anyway.

Immoral - though whether or not that's worse than illegal is up for debate.

 

[EltonFrog]

Immoral - though whether or not that's worse than illegal is up for debate.

How is it a immoral? Its just a crapper, for the use of everyone, not for the exclusive use of the RD.

 

[coffeejo]

How is it a immoral? Its just a crapper, for the use of everyone, not for the exclusive use of the RD.

I was responding to AnythingButVanilla's question about disabled parking bays.

 

[EltonFrog]

I was responding to AnythingButVanilla's question about disabled parking bays.

I beg your pudding, I should read the post properly. Sorry, I did think it was odd.

 

[Sara_H]

Is this actually illegal though or just immoral?

Neither. Its just a toilet that's been built to specific dimensions to make it easier for disabled people to access it, unlike parking spaces, there is no inconvenience caused if the facility is being used by a non disabled person, they just queue for a minute or two.

 

[Maz]

Do you use them?

I do, even though I'm able bodied.

You can't use a disabled toilet. It's ILLEGAL !!

 

[mark st1]

Like me I'm registered disabled and also have a RADAR key for locked disabled toilets.
Apparently you can buy these keys on ebay

Do you have a link for them ?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I'll use them if I can get away with it
Joking aside, true sometimes the disabled toilet is cleaner, but, ime, only if it also hosts the baby changing facilities.
The ordinary disabled toilet at times is a bit minging - perhaps because non disabled male cyclists also tend to use it?
My work solved the disabled toilet quandary thus: they looked them all, to the great annoyance of disabled persons as now they have to wait ages for it to be opened.

 

[4F]

Do you have a link for them ?

They are cheaper here than e bay http://www.incontinencechoice.co.uk...toilets.html?gclid=CP2asajumrYCFcrHtAod4B8AKg maybe if there was enough interest we could get ones done with a cycle chat logo on them

 

[rich p]

I went into one to change the baby but the one on offer was even uglier than my son.

 

[4F]

I went into one to change the baby but the one on offer was even uglier than my son.

He has your looks then Rich ?

 

[swansonj]

We have a Radar key. But it's about four inches long and not the sort of thing you slip into a pocket when out for a casual cycle. As people have commented already, you can get them from several places, I got it from Radar themselves, who don't require any evidence of need, just a self-declaration that you do have need of one because of disability or health (in our case, our daughter's).

I send our daughter into the disabled toilet mainly to avoid awkwardness if I need to go and retrieve her. But I have had some odd or hostile looks when an apparently fit youngster comes out of the disabled loo, and I've felt embarrassed when someone in a wheelchair was waiting.