to think people who buy huuuuuuuuuge buggies shouldnt get on the bus with them

[mummypud]

ok i am sure this has been done before but after anouther experience of ittoday am wondering if i am missing something...
Why buy a huge buggy if you know you will be getting the bus...and i accept sometimes there may be a reason where getting the bus is needed butevery blooming day?
where i live isnt far to town.. its walkable.. although i should add they are the same mumswho insist on taking buggies into school despite it saying no buggies... grrrrrr

YABU. Its not your bus, you dont own the space. Maybe her car broke down and she had to get the bus, maybe she just didnt think she would be getting the bus when she bought the pushchair. Practicality is rarely at the forefront of a pregnant womans mind when she is buying her first pushchair, I know I cocked up bigstyle with my first (wouldnt fit in my car boot, on the bus, through the front door, but hell, it was very nice to look at)

I had a double phil & teds, and used the bus all the time

I also walked miles and miles with it each day- walking the dog, lived in semi-rural location etc, so sorry I didn't buy a special "bus" buggy!

Yabu! I don't drive so I walk everywhere. This means that my baby is in a pram a lot so I want a pram that is comfortable for her (the most comfortable ones are all quite big). She is too young to go in a buggy yet so the pram that I have is quite large. Occasionally, if a journey I need to take isn't within walking distance, I will have to take the bus. It isn't. My fault that pram manufacturers make big prams. It tends to be the umbrella folding buggies that tend to be quite compact and as I say, she isn't old enough to go in one yet!

When I had my son (24 years ago) I had a small fold up umbrella style buggy which I folded up on the bus.

I don't understand why people don't use these now if they only have one child.

I get the bus to work in the morning and in rush hour there are always pushchair wars.

I am having a chuckle at the idea that giant buggies are better. Or that the OP is not unreasonable whilst freely admitting to not having made sensible choices about buying a buggy when pregnant.

Some of you are a marketeer's dream!

I can understand where you are coming from but its not always possible. My buggy isn't huge but I know it take up a lot of room on the bus. We try to walk everywhere but I live in Scotland so it usually is always raining. As much as I do walk in it, sometimes we need to get the bus as the rain is just too heavy for the raincover and no onoe is going to risk their lo getting soaked.

My neighbour uses a large buggy on the bus, every day. But that's because she can't afford a car and uses the bus to get to the market/Tesco to shop. The puny under buggy space of smaller buggies just can't fit her shopping. I buy a bit of heavier stuff and put it in the car when we can co ordinate but it's not alway possible.

I wanted a pram that was rear facing so that my DD2 could see me and I can see her! Buggies don't look as comfortable as prams that are cushioned and lie flat. I had one for DD1 who would constantly cry because she couldn't sleep because she was sat up. I don't want a crappy umbrella folding thing for a newborn, as I said before, DD2 spends a lot of time in the pram. The thing that I have isn't massive but it's bigger than a maclaren etc.

I apologise for taking up a bit of bus space!

Someone upthread said they were scared to get on the bus with their buggy because of the reaction they might get. How sad that she feels like that just because someone else thinks they are more entitled than her (wheelchairs accepting).

I don't know whether to be amused or furious to read all these remarks about mother's "rights" to get their buggies on the bus.

When my DCs were little (and I had 3 under two and a half) there was no facility for taking a "pushchair" onto the bus unless it was folded and put under the stairs. We lived 2 miles from town and I had a folding pram (so not robust) into which babe was put and on which the other 2 sat side by side. We did the trip once a week in all weathers (except DEEP snow) and never thought it was impossible!

Now mother sget on the bus with their behemoths to go one or two stops - I simply don't understand.

I was a mother with a big pushchair. It was a travel system. To me it was more practical than one of those quinny thingamajigs and also, the quinny's were a bit out of our price range. I believe that no pushchair is designed to be used on the bus. They just aren't. It is very unfortunate that there are people who think like you OP - afterall we pay the same bus fare - there is no first class or economy on a bus and parents with big pushchairs or small pushchairs and people on wheelchairs all have the same rights.

I actually had a very horrible experience the last time I went on a bus with that pushchair. I was racially abused and called numerous swear words and was told I will get slapped across the face for not moving my pushchair by a couple, when there was no space to move it. The bus driver was so sickened by the couple's behaviour he told me to go home and call the police and told me that the CCTV had caught everything and that if it went to court he would stand as witness. I didn't take it any further, but my point is that all parents with babies in ANY kind of pushchair are and should be allowed on a bus - like someone said it is PUBLIC transport. The bus driver didn't seem to think I had done anything wrong with bringing my pushchair on board, so why should it affect anyone else?

Needless to say, that is the last time I went to town on a bus with my DD's pushchair. I always took the car after that and I'd rather pay £5 to park my car in a carpark for 2 hours than pay after the price and go on a bus.

It's quite sad that people think they are more entitled to use a bus just because they have a small pushchair. That doesn't really make sense to me.

Wow, gotolder - thank goodness conditions have improved and now even the less robust among us are accommodated on public transport!

half the price

This thread comes up ALL the time. As someone with a very small age gap between DCs I had to have a double or a P&Ts. I have a P&Ts and walk a lot and go on the bus a lot. Never have a problem. (SW London). All the buses I go on will only let 2 buggies on anyway so it doesn't make a blind bit of difference if they are 2 MacLarens or 2 P&T's/bugaboos. Just takes a bit more manoevering (sp). And of course wheelchairs always get priority.
I do however have a MacLaren and agree that it is a lot easier but I don't think its remotely unreasonable to have a bigger pram (although maybe a HUGE silver cross is going a bit far...)

I have my huge old silver cross for pushing down the shops. I have a stroller for getting on the bus.

But mostly I leave them at home and take the car

Yipeeeee!

I couldnt believe the first time I got on a bus and someone pushed their buggy on. It had been a while since I had a baby and I was astounded at the marvelousness of it and very that you couldnt do it when my older kids were babies.

Soon wore off after I got DC3.

Trouble is always going to be, loads of buggies and not enough buses.

I never really understood waiting for ages to get on a bus, squeezing on and then getting off one stop later though.

But I am sure people get on the bus because they have to. Why on earth would you get on one otherwise. They smell.

Buses don't smell. Well they don't where I live anyway!

Loads of women get on the bus with large buggy to go one or 2 stops. What always amazes me is that they just push the thing on expecting all the standing buggyless passengers to scramble out of the way. Hardly ever an excuse me, or thank you. Some are on a mobile the whole time and they don't even look at the people they are shoving around..

It is beyond bad manners imo.

I had a brilliant response on a previous thread... might go and find it and C&P...

I can't get worked up about it after my experience last summer. My husband was taken into hospital while we were on our summer holiday. I'm not insured to drive his work car and only had my big pram with me. (jane slalom). I had to get two buses across Newcastle twice a day with huge pram and honestly I've never met more helpful folk.

Surely it doesnt matter long as they fold for a wheelchair?

Well you have to be prepared to fold the buggy if you are on a bus so imagine easier to fold a small buggy. WRT cost you can pick up a 2nd hand umbrella folding buggy very inexpensively and useful for other purposes too (eg shops where there is less space, holidays). I don't generally get a bus but do use the tube and have to carry it up and down lots of stairs so would only use very lightweight buggy.

Yawn. Yet another thing for mothers to be criticised for. So along with worrying if I've got too much breast on show when BFing in public, I should also be worrying that people think my buggy is too big for the bus. Oooh, I must run out and buy a new one to please you. Or perhaps I should run my choice by you first to get your approval?

People are entitled to own whichever buggy they choose and are entitled to get on the bus - PUBLIC transport - with said buggy. YABU.

This reminds me of the 'bugaboo's too big to go on a bus' thread that I posted on a few months back - it disappeared you know so many threads just disappear.

The post I loved on the other thread was when someone said that they lay their baby on the pavement whilst folding their pushchair...

I have a bugaboo cameleon and got on a double decker last weekend with 2 other pushchairs (unplanned may I add I do have a cheapy stroller). No problem. I folded my handlebars back and it took up less space than the maclaren. Don't get the bus if it offends you so much. Me and the other 2 mums managed no problem with our HUGE pushchairs!