To think that pushchairs should have same priority as wheelchairs on buses?

[SparklyC]

Today - packed bus, I was in the pushchair bit on the bus, another mum got on with a buggy loaded with shopping. People sat in space that could have held another buggy in it didn't get up so both our pushchairs had to go in one space and my pushchair is one of those big all-terrain things! Then bus driver stopped bus for wheelchair user and asked us if either of us could fold down our pushchairs/move? Well, first of all, there wouldn't have been any room for us to sit down with our babies and also have our shopping on our knee or even stored on luggage shelf once pushchairs were on. Also the bus service I travel on has a bus every 4 minutes in the daytime. So the bus driver (who obviously has to be sen to be doing the right thing) got off the bus to tell the wheelchair user that the bus was full, and would he mind waiting for the next one, which he didn't anyway. What does everyone else think? Should we mums with our pushchairs be given the same priority as wheelchairs? Should bus drivers ask other passengers to move so that we can get on, instead of (sometimes) feeling like we are an annoyance and an obstacle to them?

2 shoes if buggy empty guess just have to park my chair . Their buggy may be a bit flat by time I get of the bus

What is it with AIBU today?

Even reading the titles is giving me a blood pressure crisis.

Oh....yabu

my mother has an odd cartilage in her knees which is crystalising she spends most of her time in a chair and sticks on a good day. gets about by bus if dad is at work or doing his charity stuff. we are all equal disabled man woman child. some people have a hard time dealing with that.

Lets see now,
Buggies/Prams with carseats CAN be folded.
Wheelchairs CANNOT !

If said buggies are folded then you have a CHOICE of where you sit on the bus.

Wheelchair users are not granted that luxury.

Seriously, some people make me fucking sick, why dont they take a day out of a disabled persons life and either accompany someone who uses a wheelchair or use one for a day, see how bloody easy it is then !!

LOL at "we are equally disabled"!

I agree with helenfellows a baby is Js a disabled physically as a person in a wheelchair in the fact that they can't walk. And why should anyone be evicted from transport for someone else.

You wouldn't ask a group of elderly people sitting in the wheelchair space on a busy bus to get off.

it really is obvious that your buggy should have been folded down and priority given to wheelchair user.Nothing suprises me.I am always telling ds how lucky he is his legs work and i would say the same to OP.

What on earth does that mean?

Helen, you are clealy not understanding. Wheelchair users need ramps/spaces in order to make things accessible to them that are accessible to the non disbled. It levels the playing field.
But no, the TAB's are jealous.
We get to hog two buses as me and dd are in wheelchairs. What other families have to take 2 fucking buses?

Christ sake I had 15 months between 2 youngest there wasn't accesable buses that are actually for wheelchair users not buggys. DS only walked a week before DD2 was born and was clumsy with LD's I managed with folding a double buggy your kids will grow up, disabled people are like that for life thank yourself bloody lucky sense of entitlement or what.

Oooh, the competition is hotting up. The most stupid fucking post of the year contest needs a final round question

'there is a wheelchair space on a bus. Is it for
A) a wheelchair
B) my baby because, well she's a baby and all small and that
C) can I have the question again because I don't understand much

A baby is disabled?! Oh my f'ing word! I dare you to say that to a parent who has a baby with an actual disability. Go on, I dare you!!!!!!

Pag

Not pretty much I would or there be asked to move politely of course

A baby is not disabled I should know I have 4 of them

You know what if there's no wheelchair Space on a bus had stairs what would you do ? This is to the mummy pushchair brigade ?

Yes your fold it if needed get that bus ,

I keep writing responses but there is just no point.

There are some truly selfish people on here.

I'm no more entitled than the wheelchair user and that's the point neither should be entitled to that space it should be first come first serve.

Can you walk NotaStatistic?

and can you all move over so I can fit my bike on the train please? thanking you kindly.

And FFS, IT IS A WHEELCHAIR SPACE! Not a stand and have a dance space nor a put your suitcase space nor a I want to be here 'cos I do space. WHEELCHAIR SPACE!

No a disabled person is entitled they can't get up and use any seat you can

Maybe you should meet my baby oh yes my baby that is disabled btw my baby is nearly 7

Or maybe want to take me on I'm disabled too

And just to point out I used to fold buggy when ds1 and ds2 were small

That's before I become disabled

Then when dd and Ds were small to not every town has accessible buses But still see the pram brigade coping fine

NotaStatistic, obviously you are as delusional as you are ignorant, a baby/child in a pram is in NO way comparable to a child/adult/teen in a wheelchair.

If I were to get on a bus with my DD and the bus driver did nothing if the WC space was being used by those with prams or just sitting there, I would and DO request very politely that I need the space for DD.

Yes crashdoll I can but I've been in a wheelchair in the past and wouldn't expect anyone to get off a bus for me