I never thought about it because I don’t travel a lot in the first place. But I realized, it’s just not just about being able to park closer to the storefront or wherever, it’s about being guaranteed a parking space so that you don’t have to drive around town 5 times.

In my condition I can’t drive for too long so I can’t drive around to find the elusive parking spot close to my destination. It would give me more options basically.

This is an overlooked point of these parking spaces. Even I only realized they had this advantage to them earlier today lol.

I checked how to get one and they say it’s for people who can’t walk more than 200m. I checked on google and the storefront I sometimes walk to is over 300m away lol so that’s a given. We’ll see if the authorities will see it the same way, and I need to get my doctor on board too but that should be possible.

The card also gives parking privilege outside of parking spaces but it’s very limited, so I’m not sure from the way it’s worded when you could actually use that lol. But that could definitely be useful to me sometimes.

Other advantages of disabled parking are wider spots which allow caregivers to maneuver and ramps to deploy, preserving our very limited energy for the stuff that actually matters, and (tying in with what I said above) giving autonomy to disabled people.