Prams on buses

custardy

ThumbRemote wrote: »

So it would be better if the kids were in the pushchairs, the adults were carrying the shopping, but had to put it on the bus seats because it had to go somewhere? The situation would be just the same.

Or perhaps they should have got the kids on first, leaving their shopping and the folded down pushchairs on the pavement. Then they could have made a couple of trips back to the pavement to collect it all and bring it on. Presumable the folded down chairs and shopping would take a few more seats up, plus they've delayed the bus. Repeated again when they got off.

And it's hardly relevant what they paid for tickets; they have the same right to travel as anyone else.

thats what the spaces at the front arre for. to put shopping etc in. seats are for sitting on. I can sit with 2 or 3 bags of shopping on my lap on the bus. not fun but why should i usurp someones use of a seat for my shopping?

custardy

Mupette wrote: »

sorry but really!! why cant you fold your buggy, baby under arm, teach your toddler to stand still and get your shopping on the bus...

I'm a in my day poster.. back in 1995 when i had my son, i managed, fold the buggy one handed, a weeks worth of shopping on the buggy, baby on hip, didnt have a car so car seat was only used when i was taken out by car, but more often the bus was my transport...

we all managed, why is it so difficult now.. or is it more not can't do but won't/why should i

and at the time.were you thinking how great it was?
why is it that people are loathed to see any form of improvement because they didnt have it in their day?

Mupette

custardy wrote: »

and at the time.were you thinking how great it was?
why is it that people are loathed to see any form of improvement because they didnt have it in their day?

No i just did it...

The improvement is great if it isnt abused, as i have already said, based on my own experiences being a wheelchair user, i see women with their mates with their buggies at the front of the bus, who make no attempt to make room for me and my wheelchair... I think they worry they may break a nail.. i dunno...

not being able to use a bus because mummy has mobile stuck to her ear and toddler running riot on the bus... mummy can't be bothered to control her child so that other people that require the buggy/wheelchair space can't use it..

adouglasmhor

My GF and another carer had to walk uphill from Croftfoot to Castlemilk in the snow pushing heavy extra support wheelchairs with users because on two buses fat ignorant ned boots refused to fold up buggies.

Nicki

adouglasmhor wrote: »

My GF and another carer had to walk uphill from Croftfoot to Castlemilk in the snow pushing heavy extra support wheelchairs with users because on two buses fat ignorant ned boots refused to fold up buggies.

But that is just wrong, and I think all of us mums who use the space and have posted on this thread have said that wheelchairs have first dibs on that space, and that we would get off the bus if necessary to let a wheelchair have that space.

What this thread is about though is whether it is acceptable for a mum with a pushchair to ask someone sitting in that space to move to a different seat so that they can stow their pushchair safely.

ETA though as I've never seen a bus with space for two wheelchairs on at the same time, one of the carers would have had to walk up the hill anyway or wait for the next bus.

adouglasmhor

Two buses (the last bus of each service so no next bus) not one bus, from two services on the same night at around the same time - after 11.30pm at night to so these wonderful mothers had their kids out late at night in the middle of winter. Nice end to a wee night out for two severly disabled people at their local. BTW both carers were more concerned about their charges than themselves.

custardy

Mupette wrote: »

No i just did it...

The improvement is great if it isnt abused, as i have already said, based on my own experiences being a wheelchair user, i see women with their mates with their buggies at the front of the bus, who make no attempt to make room for me and my wheelchair... I think they worry they may break a nail.. i dunno...

not being able to use a bus because mummy has mobile stuck to her ear and toddler running riot on the bus... mummy can't be bothered to control her child so that other people that require the buggy/wheelchair space can't use it..

well in your day there was probably no wheelchair spaces either
so perhaps you should think yourself lucky you get the "luxury" of that

custardy

adouglasmhor wrote: »

My GF and another carer had to walk uphill from Croftfoot to Castlemilk in the snow pushing heavy extra support wheelchairs with users because on two buses fat ignorant ned boots refused to fold up buggies.

in Edinburgh its not up for debate
if a wheelchair wants on then its fold up or get off

adouglasmhor

custardy wrote: »

in Edinburgh its not up for debate
if a wheelchair wants on then its fold up or get off

Your bus drivers obvioulsy have more gumption than ours.

Alex-Riley.

adouglasmhor wrote: »

My GF and another carer had to walk uphill from Croftfoot to Castlemilk in the snow pushing heavy extra support wheelchairs with users because on two buses fat ignorant ned boots refused to fold up buggies.

but I thought if someone with a wheelchair came on buggies had to be folded up or they had to get off