Prams on buses

dizziblonde

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

Why not.
I had a new born and an 11 month old and still mangaed to do this by myself quite safely.
Having babies does'nt make you unable to do anything,if anything you have to be more resourceful and inventive.

Oh but no! It makes you made from glass, liable to dissolve in the rain and incapable of doing anything!

DCodd

jayne2011 wrote: »

In my opinion if your well enough to get on a bus potter round town and go to the library, go for a scone, drag a huge pull a long trolley about, then get back on the bus you can walk an extra two metres to the next row of seats... OR I can try and ask Charlie (my 8 month old) to crawl and hold on.... not.
Btw, not all young mothers are chavs or children having children. I am 23, extremely happily married for 3 years to my childhood sweetheart who I have known since I was 5, have 3 kids (4, 2 and 8 months) and I have worked on and off, as much as possible and have know started up my own business. And my husband has a full time job with the council, who he worked for, for 8 years.

Just wanted to get it off my chest, not all young mums sleep around and have 10 kids with 8 different Fathers... Thanks for reading

Or maybe, if your young and fit and have chosen to have a child then should you not be respectfull enough to give up a seat to the old and infirm?

if your child is capable of crawling then a pram on a bus is rather unnecessary, a pushchair would be perfectly fine and you can hold the child on your lap or in a papoose. It is perfectly safe.

hayley_26

hi there, i have only skimmed through this thread but my experience with this topic is quite close to home, I have a 4 year old son who has a rare syndrome called cornelia de lange syndrome aka cdls, my son is the size of a 12 month old baby and although can walk tires very easily, he is far too small for a wheelchair or even a special needs puschair.

The buses where i live have space for wheelchair users and the elderly, prams can use these spaces if they arent already occupied with the above, I took my little boy to the hospital last week for a check up and physio session, he was also under the weather, on the return journey home he fell asleep and normally i would fold the pushchair to get him on the bus but for the above reason there was no way i was waking him up.

We got on the bus with the puschair still up and parked it in the wheelchair space to receive a mouthful of what i can only call pure nastiness about the youth of today being far too lazy to walk or fold their pushchairs down, about how those spaces were not there for the use of pushchairs and how the driver should have made me wake the child and fold the pushchair, i tried to explain that my son had as much right as a wheelchair user as if he was bigger that is what he would be using and the elderly lady went on to tell me the only disabled thing about my son was me, in the end i got his blue badges out to prove to the nasty piece of work he was entitled to be there, and even after all that she carried on with her whispering to the people around her.

pimento

Helix wrote: »

I don't get the current trend for prams built like 4x4s either, where do these mothers go that they require a pram thats built like a tank. They often don't fit in the bit for prams and wheelchairs and stick out causing a hazard if people need to get off the bus quickly in an emergency. I think they should mark lines on the floor at the front and if the pram sticks over the line they can't stay on the bus, then maybe these mothers will learn to get prams that are a more practical size.

This. It's been a few years since I had a baby and at the time I walked almost everywhere or took the tube, but my pram folded with one hand and I could lift it with one hand and baby with the other to get the pram on and off the bus.

pimento

Reading this thread reminds me why I never take a bus.

smileylondongal

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

Why not.
I had a new born and an 11 month old and still mangaed to do this by myself quite safely.
Having babies does'nt make you unable to do anything,if anything you have to be more resourceful and inventive.

Of course being a mother doesn't make you incapable however it is fairly certain that you can't hold a baby and bags and fold down a pushchair (I think people are not realising the difference between a pushchair and a pram as the latter you can't easily take down) when the driver decides they will start driving off, for example!!

Perhaps you were lucky that your bus drivers were decent and waited, and your 11 month old wasn't a wriggler, perhaps you had a nice infant carrier for your newborn so you could handle all of that- I can't possibly see how you could do all of that, however, with at least one bag, a pram and a queue of people behind you.

I do take exception to people using these sweeping statements as if they were supermums thereby implying that anyone else is somehow incapable - at the end of the day, people and products are different these days as unfortunately are the attitudes of some bus drivers. I don't regret taking a pram on public transport nor moving to a pushchair only when mine was old enough to literally stand on his own two feet. I was extremely respectful of those around me and only wish that the drivers and other passengers had the same.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

smileylondongal wrote: »

Of course being a mother doesn't make you incapable however it is fairly certain that you can't hold a baby and bags and fold down a pushchair (I think people are not realising the difference between a pushchair and a pram as the latter you can't easily take down) when the driver decides they will start driving off, for example!!.

People should'nt be so inconsiderate as to block up buses with prams.
I would never take a pram on a bus,thats what buggys/pushchairs are for.
There is'nt room on public transport for the luxury of a pram,if you want to take a pram everywhere take a taxi.
I seriously think that women who take prams on a bus should be charged for the priviledge,since they are taking up extra space .

ThumbRemote

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

People should'nt be so inconsiderate as to block up buses with prams.
I would never take a pram on a bus,thats what buggys/pushchairs are for.
There is'nt room on public transport for the luxury of a pram,if you want to take a pram everywhere take a taxi.
I seriously think that women who take prams on a bus should be charged for the priviledge,since they are taking up extra space .

Wah wah wah people sometimes get in your way.

I seriously think whingers like you should be made to take a taxi, to keep you away from normal members of society.

Lokolo_2

ThumbRemote wrote: »

Wah wah wah people sometimes get in your way.

I seriously think whingers like you should be made to take a taxi, to keep you away from normal members of society.

No, she has a valid point. Many people with Prams just expect everyone around them to bow down to them as if they were something special.:cool:

smileylondongal

I don't think I was expecting anyone to bow down to my pram, lol! As I said in one of my earlier posts, I knowingly bought a pram that had handles that would go in to avoid taking any room in the gangway, the wheels were 'normal' and it wasn't particularly large. I would wait until there was a bus that had the space and got off for wheelchair users. The only issue was that I couldn't break it down.

I can't drive for medical reasons and can't afford taxis but walk where I can. I use public transport when I have to but no one should tell me what I can or can't buy, especially if I've given it some thought as per above.

I think there is some myth out there that mums with any kind of child transportation feel they have more right than others when in actual fact it's completely the other way round! I don't see the need to be rude to anyone if they are in the buggy space, but I have asked them to move for me and thankfully some do without a sour face. I move for others. It's all about common courtesy and tolerance. Something I'll be teaching my child about and which others could have more of.