why would you risk our child by putting them in their pram/buggy on an escalator? when it specifically says not to??

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can't understand why people would take risk.
i realise the lifts can be a pita
but really

well i never did. spend lots of time waitingn for lifts though, and dont live in london anymore but i saw a man in a large shopping centre, avoiding the lift and takingn the escalator or may be not so shocked as so many of you mn seem to.
but even with walking dcs i still hate escalators

I've always done it, I don't understand what the big problem is here.

Children should be strappen into there pushchairs at all times as far as I'm concerned, so as long as you tilt the pushchair to keep it straight on the step then there is no problem.

Have I explained myself enough OP or do I not live up to your high health and safety standards.

Well I've done it without too much bother and all my 5 survived unscathed. Only going up though. Not down

FGS, if your child is strapped in and you center the buggy and hold on to it, what can go wrong? I do it all the time.

I have done it a few times on the underground, but I hate it, it's a nightmare, you don't have much time or space to get yourself in position due to the volume of people. One time the pushchair wheel got caught getting on an up escalator, I was trying to run down, pushchair staying where it was, pretty fucking hairy, but managed to get it on.

I don't go to London much now, wouldn't do it on my own with a pushchair again, too fricking stressfull.

we did it all the time, no regrets, there are accidents all the time on escalators buggys and no buggys it is about taking care more than anything else.

Jaquelinehyde I said earlier that I saw a woman do this but the pushchair tipped forwards. Luckily me and a bloke saved it...but if I'd been a pensioner or summat I'd have been knocked down the escalator, never mind the poor kid in the buggy.

It's dead dangerous IMHO. Escalators aint for pushchairs/buggies etc...

IMO the advice to take them out is far more dangerous when your hands are full on busy escalators.

If there are lifts available then I never take escalator instead but as people have said on many tubes they dont have it available so if you want to travel you have no choice, although I would rather avoid it by taking bus or a different route if I can but quite a few times have had to take buggy on escalator. With just a normal not too heavy buggy and one baby in it its fine really but I have a double and with both of them in its so heavy to hold on the escalator, and then if i take one out then holding the buggy with one hand and holding toddler with other hand feels quite dangerous, as its leaving no hand for me to hold on to the side or anything so it scares me too much these days and have stopped doing it. also cos of reading some horror stories on here about children getting maimed and injured on escalators, which has stuck in my mind..
its very annoying how crap the underground is for step free access though, they really need to put in more lifts and improve it. i prefer even loads of stairs compared to escalators though, as the escalators feels more risky to me now even tho bumping up a lot of stairs can be heavy