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[email protected] · April 29th 09, 09:56 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Ian Jelf) wrote:

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In article 01c9c80f$742adac0$LocalHost@default,
(Michael R N Dolbear) wrote:

There's a few issues at play here. There does appear to be an
expectation amongst a significant number of buggy-wielding bus users
that they can - or should always be able to - get on a bus without
folding the buggy up. This is daft - those with kids in buggies
should be prepared to evict the little'un from said buggy and fold
it up when getting on the bus. I reckon it's also fair to say tha
t babies in prams should take priority over buggies - and of course
wheelchair users take priority over both (there is enough space in
most buses for a wheelchair and a buggy/pram though).

A parent, are you?

Well I'm not but I'll interject here anyway.......

Folding up a buggy containing a child who isn't yet
walking is far from simple.

I'm sure it's far from simple. However, it is sometimes
*necessary*, if the space is already occupied or if a wheelchair
user needs to use it.

There's an important distinction between "easy" and "necessary".

Especially out in the sticks with one bus an hour.
I would reiterate the story reported in the local press in North
Somerset of a driver on the 121 or 126 (each hourly) who allegedly
refused to wait *while* a mother folded a push chair as the space
was unavailable. That - if correct - is just plain bonkers. But
for all we know she might have refused to fold it.

These stories, even the ones reported here, have a tendency to get
mangled.

I could regale the group with the hassle my daughter has had trying to get
her daughter to a rural location for a support group of hers. Once she got
dumped by the side of a country road having been carried past her stop.
Eventually she got some sort of apology from Stagecoach.

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Colin Rosenstiel