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WRAL Investigates Handicapped Parking
WRAL Investigates Handicapped Parking
A Raleigh license plate office deemed out of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act is also one of five locations in Wake County where disabled drivers can pick up their handicapped parking placards.
For years, parking has been a sore spot for downtown Raleigh businesses, especially time-limited parking spaces taken up all day by vehicles with handicapped placards.
The Raleigh City Council is considering a change to a long-standing policy allowing vehicles with handicapped placards to park in metered and time-limited parking spaces at no charge all day long.
After years of vowing to tackle the problem of vehicles with handicapped placards taking parking spaces at no charge all day long, Raleigh officials are turning to lawmakers for help.
A task force appointed by Mayor Charles Meeker called for expanding metered spaces and raising parking rates as part of a comprehensive plan for downtown Raleigh parking.
A recent WRAL News investigation found people with handicapped placards park on downtown streets for hours at a time. Raleigh police plan to use a team of volunteers to patrol use of the placards.
Spina bifida doesn't slow Gail Lashock from getting to where she wants to go. But finding a handicapped-accessible parking space downtown sometimes does.
Two years after a WRAL investigation showed cars bearing handicapped placards occupying downtown parking spaces for hours, the problem persists.
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