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Eric[_3_] · September 20th 12, 10:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 2012-09-20, wrote:
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(Clive) wrote:

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Hang on, when I was bus driving, buggies and push chairs were already
folded or you didn't get on, why is the system now laxer to the
detriment of everyone?
That was the dark ages. They stopped punishing parents of children too
young to walk! They needed two hands to fold the buggy and their third
hand to hold the child. Doh!
There is no "Doh" about it, it's just common sense that a woman with
a child or two in tow is much faster loading with a folded buggy than
one which she feels protective of because is carries her most wanted
cargo,(a baby).

You just don't get it, do you? There is no way a parent on their own can
fold a buggy for a not-yet-walking child and get onto a bus. They need too
many hands.

The problem here is usually the buggy. What we used to do is move child
to parent's left arm, kick the right place between the back wheels while
holding one handle with right hand, bend knees and grab the bit below
the handle and the bit above a front wheel, stand up again. Thus we had
a child on one arm and a folded "buggy" in the other hand, ready to get
on. Did it lots, got very good at doing it quickly.

Of course this wasn't a buggy, but what we called a stroller and you
would probably call a push-chair. The problem here is the buggies with
their big wheels and heavy framework that seem to be designed and used
as general cargo carriers, with a space for the baby that often seems
somewhat secondary. We never lived in a place where you could hang a
full-sized pram on hooks on the front of the bus, but it was common
enough. Of course you needed help for that, but there were conductors
then.

Eric
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