Why, thanks, Medway Council

 Just heard from a wheelie friend that our local council are proposing selling off the disabled parking spaces on Rochester High Street for development and replacing them with extra spaces in a car park that's further away. And I've had to rewrite this because the crafty sods aren't increasing the provision of disabled spaces as I first thought, they've simply listed all of them in town as if they're new, whereas in reality they're simply relocated the six on the High Street to the new multi-storey, which is at least 250m off the High Street. One of the listed alternatives had me speechless in awe at the sheer cluelessness of the proposal. They're claiming two spaces in a car park that's over a kilometre away, and at the top of an extremely steep hill are an alternative. It takes me at least 10 minutes, probably closer to 15, to cover half the distance between the two, and I struggle with the height increase - and that's the proportionally flatter part of the trip! (I'd always though those two spaces were residents parking provision for the flats opposite, I have no idea why they're there if they're meant to be public provision, there's nowhere nearby in terms of wheelchair access!)

The disabled car parking situation on the High Street is already pretty dire, I think I've only ever managed to park in there two or three times because it's always full, but this is just going to make it worse.