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?

It's nota wind up. The council pays rent if your disabled and can't work no matter where you live.

I will say once again that I DO fold my buggy or get off the bus for a wheelchair and get annoyed if people use their buggies as luggage carriers but I also think it should work on a first come basis if the buggy CANNOT be folded. I have great respect for wheelchair users.

mnhq

Can I educate them , please !!! just give me few hrs with them and they would understand more .

but why would a buggy NOT be able to be folded?!

for a reason I gave earlier

lol hello us disaboaled people do work and no they dont pay our rent hell some disabled people even own their houses

what happens when you live between 2 busy towns on that princple i never be able to get on a bus

Hmm great respect shit you have strange way of showing it

because it's carrying a disabled baby with all his equipment

What reason?!

Move closer? LMFAO

Yes, adapted housing is SOOOOOO easy to come by! And if it is your kid that is disabled it may well have taken you YEARS to get their schools etc sorted. Moving out of catchment and losing all that so someone can have their buggy on a bus? Are you having a fucking laugh? come on!

Besides if people DON'T travel IDS makes a TV programme about them and says they must get on a bus to find work (or is that just S E Wales where I live?)

Where's my free car? We've got 4 kids with various levels of SN after all, 2 in special needs schools. not that bfree cars exist in the terms people are tlaking about but hey, who cares about that? just because people have to find large deposits for the car etc, what would TRUTH matter?

Also laughing a lot at disabled people get free cars learn to drive- just because someone is blind, or has quad cp, or uncontrolled epilepsy or functions at the level of a 10 year old- learn to drive, there is no excuse!

Wankerish tittle tattle.

When my sight finally goes I suggest the bus will be MUCH better than a car, all considered.

'It's nota wind up. The council pays rent if your disabled and can't work no matter where you live.'

Really? fuckers wont pay mine. I cant find a rpivte landlord who wants ceiling hoists installed, wet room and ramps. And my husband works.
Stop reading the Daily Mail.

Ok, I get the disabled/ill child. As one day that child may well be in a wheelchair, and need the space too.

So really, it doesnt really apply to YOU does it?!

oh and if you do have adapted council house they dont offer you where you like to be you have no say in the matter.I was warned i have to move anywhere within 50 miles radius despite my dc being at school

What is this nonsense? Of course the council doesn't pay all disabled people's rent! Where do these myths come from?

'I have great respect for wheelchair users.'

Why?
As a wheelchair user I dont have any respect for ignorant entitled pram pushers.

'It's nota wind up. The council pays rent if your disabled and can't work no matter where you live.

Gawd this gets better

No matter where you live? hardly

They pay up to 30% of the market value of a house rent in your area. Which is some places now is less than the rent on a council house.

and trying to find adapted house is easy .I was extremley lucky and only waited 10 months .Mind thats 10 months without being able to get in a bathroom at all

Ok KalSkirata Im not entitled and neither are you in my opinion I take it back I respet MOST wheelchair users I dont respect rude entitled ones

lmao your calling us entitled yet you think you should be entilted to a buggy on the bus and remember your child does not pay for a space

Well I have met KalSkirata and I think she IS entitled

So tehre

Now I am off to watch shite TV, drink wine and eat calamari, bye y'all.

PS you don't want THC driving on your pavements when she could be static on a bus, i've seen her drive that wheelchair of hers

I'm off to shoot Aliens. Much more satisfying than educating Daily Mail readers.
Dont forget, us wheelies get a bus pass too. With companion pass. Aint we special

Tell you what, I'll have another baby and apply for DLA for it and get a free car, because a baby is disabled and cannot walk after all

And as for "if you have a powered wheelchair you don't need the bus" What planet are you from?

so on that grounds alone makes us more entilted than a buggy .Let alone the law is on our side

ah see i not go a bus pass let alone companion one

The law should change so that everyone is treated equally to all spaces at all times and not favour anyone whether that be a buggy or a wheelchair...BTW i try to walk everywhere rather than bus.