“Taking My Spot? Take My Disability.” To Fight Parking Fraud, MyParkingSign.com Unleashes New Weapon

First sign ever in America with “Taking My Spot? Take My Disability” message

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rates of illegal parking in spaces reserved for persons with disabilities are out of control—in California alone, 30 percent of parkers who display disabled parking placards are doing so fraudulently. MyParkingSign.com has launched a new sign to keep able-bodied people from illegally parking in reserved spots. The slogan reads, “Taking My Spot? Take My Disability” to establish that accessible parking areas are used for their proper purposes.

“If you take my place, take my handicap.”

“No one should be forced to trade their own pain for someone else’s convenience,” said Conrad Lumm, Director of MyParkingSign. “We’re championing the message that reserved parking is meant to respond to people’s real needs.”

The sign is the first accessible parking sign in America with the words “Taking My Spot? Take My Disability.” It was inspired by a sign written in French commonly seen across Europe, and translates to “If you take my place, take my handicap.” With white font on a blue background and easy installation, the sign is meant to install on posts with pre-existing reserved parking or accessible parking messages.

“Rather than blaring aggressive, fine-oriented threats, this sign favors a conscientious approach to ensure that accessible parking spots are used for their correct purposes,” says Lumm.

To view the sign, visit

• http://www.myparkingsign.com/taking-my-spot-take-my-disability-parking-sign/sku-k-9735

For more information, visit www.myparkingsign.com.

Notes to editors:

1. Data was derived from: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/25/local/la-me-0125-lopez-disabledparking-20120124
2. The sign was inspired by the following French sign: http://www.balencourt.com/blog/2007/08/04/orange-bleue-si-tu-prends-ma-place

About MyParkingSign.com

MyParkingSign is the largest online distributor of parking and traffic signs. Find over 3,000 different parking signs in stock as well as labels and accessories. Customers can create signs using convenient customization wizards.

About SmartSign

SmartSign is one of America's fastest growing e-commerce companies and parent of MyParkingSign, MySafetySign, and more than 50 other sites. The company manufactures and distributes a wide range of signs, tags, mats, and labels. By positioning "signs as solutions," SmartSign has taken a novel approach to ordering signs. Through highly targeted, content-rich, and authoritative retail sites, the company provides specific solutions to specific problems, such as stopping illegal parking.