ALTHOUGH THIS IS LOCAL, IT APPLIES EVERYWHERE!

 

 

With the increasing elderly population and with Fort Drum veterans settling here, we have an increased need for handicapped parking places in Watertown.

We need to change the requirement percentages.

We also need to stress that the "empty" spaces that say "no parking at any time" next to a handicapped space are essential for persons with a side entry lift for a wheel chair.  Parking there can leave the wheelchair firmly locked into the vehicle.

People also need to be alert to the fact that some wheelchair lift vans exit from the back, which is more dangerous for the wheelchair user and an attendant.

If you imagine yourself in the place of the handicapped person, then you will think and behave differently.  Imagine not being able to have any say  in what is purchased for your use, from cosmetics to candy to clothes!

 

Give your fellow man a break!

 

Beverly Youngs

 

P.S.

It is hard to be that one in the chair, but sometimes a very real handicap doesn't "show"!.

 

LET ME  ADD:

 

Stupidity isn't a handicap - park somewhere else!