Martin Rich wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 25 Aug 2004:

In any case, one of my fellow-passengers was a bit under 2 years old,
so we were quite conscious of accessibility issues. Which turned out
to be appalling. The floor was much higher than on any urban bus that
I've encountered, with I think 5 or 6 steps up from the entrance.
Thanks perhaps to rather bulkier seats than a city bus, the central
aisle would barely have accommodated the most compact push-chair, let
alone an adult wheelchair. There was no luggage space within the bus,
unless you count some overhead racks with very limited capacity, so we
had to prop up the folded pushchair against an empty seat.

Normally such coaches have luggage space underneath, and the pushchair
would have been expected to go there, with the child carried on to the
bus in its parents' arms. What is done about wheelchair users, I don't
now.

On a side note, has anybody else noticed how much *bigger* pushchairs
have got now that you don't have to fold them on buses any more? They'll
be back to the full-sized perambulators of the 1950s and earlier any
minute....
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