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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 22:06

thanks busybee... I remember coming 3 years ago on a 6 week holiday, & we were able to use our UK blue badge without a problem....we didn't receive any tickets either. But now it's permanent....I'll ask the doctors or when I go to get my driving licence I'll ask then :) u shouldnt just use your uk blue badge you must get a uae issued one otherwise now you will be fined, 3 years ago not so much as really they werent that bothered but the rta in dubai and mawaqif in abu dhabi. now they have traffic wardens patrolling their patch not 3 years ago. oh I will def look into it....I had noticed more wardens out and about now. Also, thanks for the link....I need to wait till we get our visas sorted, hopefully this week :) in abu dhabi there is defo now loads of traffic wardens and they do patrol 1 block each dont know about dubai. they do fine you if there is no permit in your car and you are parked in the blue spaces. i have seen it happen on many occasions, they will always take a piccie too of your car when they fine you for anything, ie no parking ticket etc, so there is proof. not worth it, best to just pay the ticket price. if you park in the disabled spaces with a disabled blue uae issued permit you do not need to pay the meter costs, well in abu dhabi thats the case, cant say its the same for dubai but i would assume it would be.

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 21:55

thanks busybee... I remember coming 3 years ago on a 6 week holiday, & we were able to use our UK blue badge without a problem....we didn't receive any tickets either. But now it's permanent....I'll ask the doctors or when I go to get my driving licence I'll ask then :) u shouldnt just use your uk blue badge you must get a uae issued one otherwise now you will be fined, 3 years ago not so much as really they werent that bothered but the rta in dubai and mawaqif in abu dhabi. now they have traffic wardens patrolling their patch not 3 years ago. oh I will def look into it....I had noticed more wardens out and about now. Also, thanks for the link....I need to wait till we get our visas sorted, hopefully this week :)

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 21:37

thanks busybee... I remember coming 3 years ago on a 6 week holiday, & we were able to use our UK blue badge without a problem....we didn't receive any tickets either. But now it's permanent....I'll ask the doctors or when I go to get my driving licence I'll ask then :) u shouldnt just use your uk blue badge you must get a uae issued one otherwise now you will be fined, 3 years ago not so much as really they werent that bothered but the rta in dubai and mawaqif in abu dhabi. now they have traffic wardens patrolling their patch not 3 years ago.

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 21:33

here is a link may be of help http://www.rta.ae/wpsv5/wps/portal/DNH

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 21:31

thanks busybee... I remember coming 3 years ago on a 6 week holiday, & we were able to use our UK blue badge without a problem....we didn't receive any tickets either. But now it's permanent....I'll ask the doctors or when I go to get my driving licence I'll ask then :)

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 20:33

I don't believe any tribunal in the world grants appeals on the basis of 'well he got away with it'. As a side note, to the ladies with the parking stickers, where do you get them? We normally park in them and I don't have one (well, we park only on one of my bad days when my legs didn't get their morning wake up call) and one can see me and see why we are there, but if we are not near the car it may still result in a fine. u are asking for a 1k fine, even if you struggle with your legs, unless you have the required blue permit you can be fined. one time i couldnt park in a disabled bay because some idiot without one was using it, but in abu dhabi as the traffic warden was walking past he said that we could just park in a normal space and that would be fine because it was his patch and he saw that we had the required permit. this was in the premium parking area so further down the road the place was empty.

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 20:31

May I ask how you go about getting a disabled permit? I had one for my DS back home, and need to apply for one here too. TIA for when my mum comes i have to take her with her passport and tourist visa and her blue badge. they will ask you for your driving licence and gold rego card and you can only specify one car (ie you cannot swap cars depending on which one you are driving at the time) they are car specific and they will do it for the length of time on her ticket, obviously if its a perm one then you have to go with your card but i think that you also need a docs note from here too to get one. as a tourist as a temp one they are fine with but i have read in the past that for a perm one you still need docs letters etc.

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 20:29

I don't believe any tribunal in the world grants appeals on the basis of 'well he got away with it'. As a side note, to the ladies with the parking stickers, where do you get them? We normally park in them and I don't have one (well, we park only on one of my bad days when my legs didn't get their morning wake up call) and one can see me and see why we are there, but if we are not near the car it may still result in a fine. you will get a fine unless you have a permit. cannot tell you where in dubai but in abu dhabi when my mums comes with her disabled blue badge, we go to the traffic dept special permits department (this is the place where all the construction truck workers are waiting for their permits presumably to take their big loads on to the road or onto the sand etc etc). you will not be issued with a special permit unless you have a doctors note, they will sometimes give you one on a temp basis but you will have to have letters to prove it and signed in blood. dont know if its the same in dxb.

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 20:16

May I ask how you go about getting a disabled permit? I had one for my DS back home, and need to apply for one here too. TIA

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 19:24

Maybe they have a special needs permit to park there! My son uses a wheelchair and we have a parking permit. It is so very inconvinient to find the parking spots occupied by perfectly normal people. It is a little better now than 8 years back when we first came here, but when will people learn that 'handicapped parking' spaces are for the 'handicapped'!! yeh its because people forget they have legs that are made for walking here. if you find that someone is parked in a space without a permit, then you can always ring the police they will ring up the owner and get them to move. once in abu dhabi, there was a traffic warden walking close by so he then gave the offending car a ticket, of course, it wasnt within his powers to get the car to move only the police are allowed to do that, so you still couldnt park there if you needed to! but its a start.

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 19:21

............. Also, if you get a speeding ticket on Shk Zayed road, do you also think you should you be let off because lot's of other people do it everyday and maybe your newborn is crying and you want to get home to tend to them? Sorry to sound harsh, but it annoys me when people park in disabled bays - a baby is not a disability! :\: Ooh! you really are a cheeky monkey aren't you? :) Fair point though - just don't park there.

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 16:38

I know I'm in the wrong, but as a newbie to JLT and after seeing many of the same cars ALWAYS parked in the handicapped parking spaces, one boiling day in August, I parked in a handicapped park as I couldn't find a park in the shade as I have a newborn baby. Within 12 hours, I had a 1000 dhs parking fine. I'm wondering why are the same people always parking in these spaces? Surely they can't be getting fined every day? Was I just unlucky?! I live in Group C, so there are a lot of offices here.. can I contend my fine? If they are parking there everyday then maybe they have a permit? Not sure how you can contend your fine - you parked in a disabled bay without a permit, what's to contend? Lots of people (including myself) have had to deal with newborns in a Dubai summer and I never parked in the disabled bays... If everyone who had a newborn thought they were entitled to park in a disabled bay because of the heat, there would be no disabled bays left. I sympathise with your problem and some covered parent and child would be wonderful, but... Also, if you get a speeding ticket on Shk Zayed road, do you also think you should you be let off because lot's of other people do it everyday and maybe your newborn is crying and you want to get home to tend to them? Sorry to sound harsh, but it annoys me when people park in disabled bays - a baby is not a disability!

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Latest post on 30 October 2011 - 16:20

Maybe they have a special needs permit to park there! My son uses a wheelchair and we have a parking permit. It is so very inconvinient to find the parking spots occupied by perfectly normal people. It is a little better now than 8 years back when we first came here, but when will people learn that 'handicapped parking' spaces are for the 'handicapped'!!

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