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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 · 27/02/2017 00:02
Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:02

Zakky love that version. Also love some of their more rocky stuff which is a bit sad for a 58 year old.

Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:03

look for some Limp Bizkit coz I got kissed by Fred Durst a couple of years back! Grin

LailasMummyx · 27/02/2017 00:04

So then you should understand about babies then I'm not talking about toddlers, I'm talking about under 1s, because it is obviously more safe for them to be strapped in a pushchair then mothers arms while on the bus

ZackyVengeance · 27/02/2017 00:04
dd loves this lol
Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:04

could go laurel and hardy too, I suppose, this place is a bit like that at the moment.

ZackyVengeance · 27/02/2017 00:05
\for you dawn
ZackyVengeance · 27/02/2017 00:06

this is good and i was THERE

Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:07

What I understand is that babies can wait, they can be wrapped up warm, and snuggled in a buggy and wait for the next bus if the parent is unhappy. I understand that if some fucking selfish person doesn't want to get off when one of my children needs to access public transport, or wants to access public transport, and they are left to the vagaries of the weather, unlike the baby, they could die. It's as simple as that.
I understand that I fought for many years to get those spaces, with others. I understand that when I was young disabled people were rarely seen out in public because they couldn't access the things that you can. Which bit of that is right?

Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:08

Yay, love Stone Sour!

ZackyVengeance · 27/02/2017 00:09

dawn he was so GOOD

LailasMummyx · 27/02/2017 00:11

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Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:11
Love this, too. Got a kiss from this lot, too!
ZackyVengeance · 27/02/2017 00:12

oh come
are you that goady? really that you can't see it.

TyneTeas · 27/02/2017 00:14

Just filling in a hole

ZackyVengeance · 27/02/2017 00:14

very nice dawn im off to bed, so the trolls can have it. if they are so thick they see a baby as being more in need that a wheelchair user for a WHEELCHAIR space. we can't help them.
the odd thing is they think they are clever....god help their kids.

Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:15

Because a person using a wheelchair is more likely to become seriously ill or die. Because there are sixty seats on a bus and one wheelchair space. Because it's not equality when there is only one space. Because people like me fought for that space. Because in a year your baby will be mobile, my is 20 and isn't. My 22 year old won't be for much longer. My other 20 year old won't be for much longer either. Because it's morally the right thing to do. Because you will forget this when your baby is living a wonderful, pain free mobile life accessing everything and everywhere they want and I will still be fighting people like you for the basic rights of my children's existence.

TyneTeas · 27/02/2017 00:15

Just filling a hole

ZackyVengeance · 27/02/2017 00:15
ZackyVengeance · 27/02/2017 00:16
ZackyVengeance · 27/02/2017 00:16
dd loves this
LailasMummyx · 27/02/2017 00:17

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Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:20

Have you any idea how many of us sit and cry when these threads come up? Here we go again, and do you know what Mumsnet tell us, we're here to educate. Only we're not. We're put in the position of having to do that, but god we'd love to have a break. We'd love all of you to say, shit, I'm so sorry, you're right, babies are actually relatively safe on buses in a parents arms, shit, look at the statistics, buses rarely crash and babies rarely die in said crashes. That person in the wheelchair is as entitled as you or I to go and get their own shopping, to go out with their friends, to live a life. You prevent them from doing that by refusing to move, by demanding an equality with something that is in fact unequal. By not abiding by a moral and equitable compass. Show some compassion, you already have a greater access than people with disabilities.

Dawndonnaagain · 27/02/2017 00:21

Oh good, now I"m thick. That Phd was a waste of fucking time.

IFartGlitter · 27/02/2017 00:25

I seriously can't argue with someone as rude and thick as you. confused

Oh the irony!