Nothing gets your goat more: Driving around a parking lot looking for a spot, and watching a seemingly able-bodied person park in a handicap space with that blue placard dangling in their windshield.
Long thought of as a system rife with abuse, the Department of Motor Vehicles in Connecticut is now changing directions on its handicap parking permit program.
Instead of receiving two permits per disabled individual - one of which invariably landed in a relative's car - they will receive one.
In December, the New York Times pointed out that the state is one of only three to issue lifetime permits.
Now, working with the Department of Public Health, the DMV will purge the lists quarterly, so the dearly departed's loved one's don't continue parking in handicap spaces.
Another big change: Doctors will be required to provide their license numbers on the application form. In a press release Monday, the DMV said these changes would help them "monitor the number of handicap permits each physician issues and follow up on any sign of misuse."
We're all for the disabled getting to use their parking spots. We're anti abuse of the system.
