French bus driver makes all passengers get off for not letting man in wheelchair on.

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This has made my day!!

Ooo I LOVE this

Good for him. ( read the comment by Horseman4).

OMG that's brilliant! Bravo to the bus driver

Brilliant! D

But have you read the comments? 2nd comment claims "entitled mumsnet mummies" would beat a london bus driver if they did it here :D

😲 at the comment by Horseman.....

Brilliant good for him👊

This bus driver is a gentleman with style and guts - what a fantastic, decisive thing to do. We need more people like him.

Good for that bus driver!

brilliant. if only there were more like him.

What lovely news! Good on him.

Excellent! I wish bus drivers would do the same in the UK and elsewhere.

Ds2 has one of these from TFL. He has dyspraxia and because he is deaf he can't cope with loud noises. If he is standing up it affects his balance and he can't cover his ears. Most of the time someone on the tube will stand. I would always ask though if needs be.

Just waiting for the entitled contingent to roll up and tell us how and why he was wrong....

I will feel embarrassed on behalf of mumsnet and Britain if so.

Fantastic.

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I promise I'm not entitled, and I kind of get it, but that doesn't seem so great to me. Why not just kick the people at the front off or make them move? How on earth was it the fault of people in the middle/back who couldn't possibly have moved?

I'm autistic and find public transport a nightmare at the best of times. I try to hide at the back where I don't get jostled as much or get in the way. Getting "punished" for something I couldn't help would make me feel anxious for days.

Good for this bus driver! I hope the passengers learned their lesson.

Brilliant 😀

I agree with loplop. Last year I looked fine, but couldn't stand for long periods, this would have left me sitting on the pavement.

Good on the driver!

Even if people couldn’t physically do anything they could have opened their mouths and encouraged others to do so

I agree with lop too

I’m the first to get off with my buggy if a wheelchair gets on. Something I have done. I even left my dh and oldest dd on the bus and walked with my buggy the rest of the way so I’m all for making sure a wheelchair has space

However, I now have a disability which means I can’t stand and walk for a long period of time.

Being kicked off a bus especially if I had my children with me (one who is suspected to be on the spectrum and wouldn’t cope) would be a disaster

Yesterday, the train driver leapt out of his door and made us all stand back so he could help a woman with her pushchair get on first. At rush hour.

I agree with loplop - I have anxiety and ASD and would have found this really confusing and upsetting. The driver should have told the people sitting/standing in the wheelchair space to move.

I have travelled regularly with a person who doesn't always use a wheelchair. I agree that some people have hidden disabilities, and those pps with them upthread aren't the entitled sort at all. The way the person I know would have dealt with this would be to show the driver a card they always carry explaining this. Another person I know with hidden disabilities would be able to speak to the driver to explain. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that this driver wouldn't turf anyone off with significant disabilities. I think he was making a point against the unkind, and hoping they will learn a lesson.

I can’t use buses at all these days. My twins are 2, one with a range of disabilities, the other has some delays, and I have disabilities myself.

Double buggies are massive and there’s just no way I can take them out of the buggy, fold it and keep them both safe (they have no concept of danger, one has a visual impairment). If we have to be somewhere by a set time (eg a hospital appointment), it’s just impossible to use the bus as several have to go past before one has room, and if a wheelchair user wants to get on we would have to get off.

I’m not entitled in the least, nor would I say that we shouldn’t give up the space for a wheelchair user, but bus companies need to do more for buggy users. They’re just completely inaccessible to us. I can’t drive due to medication and we can’t use a taxi as I can’t hold them both or transport two big car seats.

The entire point of accessibility for public transport is that it should be accessible for all. If there’s a good chance you can’t fit on the bus or you’d have to get off if a chair user needs to get on, they become unusable for anything with a deadline.