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June 30th 05, 01:46 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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Buggies are wheelchairs!

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In message , Mrs Redboots
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While I find buggies on buses can be as annoying and intrusive as you
evidently do, could I point out that a great many mothers of young
children are obliged to work to make ends meet (and this has always
been the case - the "Protestant work ethic" of father earning the
family's living while mother stayed at home with the children was
always a middle-class dream, never a working-class reality), so need
to travel to work when you do. Perhaps *you* could change *your*
working hours, since you are not encumbered by a family?

Please do try not to be so appallingly, insensitively offensive.
I am sorry for offending you, but I still think mothers with pushchairs
should have then folded before even attempting to board a bus. You're
right that I don't understand everyone's circumstances, but I do
understand the room these things take up and that modern buses of the
kneeling type are for wheelchair access not pushchair access. A
little thought would confirm my position, and I am white and working
class. Just go back a few years and you'll remember that whilst we had
rear loading with a conductor, he would refuse access to someone with
an unfolded pushchair and would only wait for it to be folded if the
bus was a bit early.

You don't understand the issues of transporting a young child, do you?

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Colin Rosenstiel

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