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

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SparklyC · 28/11/2011 14:31

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?

OP posts:
ZackyVengeance · 26/02/2017 23:54

bum

ZackyVengeance · 26/02/2017 23:54

bum

Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:55

I wan't one of those wheelchair symbols

Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:55

tits and bums, a weekly look at church architecture.

Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:55

showing my age there!

Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:56

and of course nobody expects the spanish inquisition.

Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:56

why is it nailed to the bleeding perch...

Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:56

Obviously I'm in a monty python mood tonight.

Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:57

am happy to keep going though

Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:57

what's brown and sticky

Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:57

a stick.

LailasMummyx · 26/02/2017 23:57

Well you clearly can't read, I didn't say a pushchair space was more important, I said you don't always know the situation with wheelchair users so I think they should be equal

ZackyVengeance · 26/02/2017 23:57

troll

ZackyVengeance · 26/02/2017 23:58

lol

Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:58

you don't understand the concept of equality then. Or equity

ZackyVengeance · 26/02/2017 23:58

always look on the bright side of life

ZackyVengeance · 26/02/2017 23:59
Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:59

Here is what it means to be fair.

To think that pushchairs should have same priority as wheelchairs on buses?
Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:59

still trying to fill things up

ZackyVengeance · 26/02/2017 23:59
Dawndonnaagain · 26/02/2017 23:59

why did Tigger have his head down the loo?

LailasMummyx · 27/02/2017 00:00

You clearly don't understand life.

Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:00

He was looking for Pooh!

Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:01

Thing is I do. I have three children with disabilities.

ZackyVengeance · 27/02/2017 00:01
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