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?

you should have bloody well offered your space on the bus like a decent human being. You said it was only 4 minutes.

How fucking ridiculous!

and to then be that bothered about it that you post your annoyance on a website, shame on you!

and on me for bothering to reply....

ou must be sick of biscuits by now so have a

This thread is from last November.Why was it bumped?

NO, THEY DON'T.

Why is there another one of these? Hardly even worth bothering with but I would like to address the ablist and outdated nonsense that all wheelchair users 'have no choice'. Many people who use wheelchairs do have a choice and can use crutches or similar on some occasions, and choose to use a wheelchair e.g. to deal with fatigue or similar. Or use a wheelchair for the bus to deal with balance issues on moving objects but can walk some small distance. Trying to insist that mobility aids are never a choice is just as ablist as trying to stop disabled people using facilities designed for them. In this case the person waiting to get on didn't mind anyway so I don't even see why OP is posting this, except to wind people up. But I'm glad to have the opportunity to correct ignorance on disability issues from people who want to treat all disabled people as pathetic victims when we aren't. Thanks. :D

No. I would offer to get off with a pushchair if a wheelchair user wanted to get on - assuming I wasn't rushing to get to a doctors visit or something urgent. I am happy that I can walk and don't need to use a wheelchair. It is also a lesson for the little uns to be considerate.

well im serious, theyre people as much as everyone else, and i think allowances should be made where possible, but not to the extent of other people being thrown off the bus to make way. Whats so offensive about that?

I think that the OP is being perfectly reasonable as long as the wheelchair user has someone with them who can lift them out of the wheelchair, pass them to someone else on the bus while they fold the wheelchair and then sit with the wheelchair user on their lap for the journey. Obviously if this is not the case then it isn't reasonable.

Actually I have to differ, if my child falls asleep in his buggy whilst on a bus with loads of shopping, If the wheelchair user doesnt mind holding my child and shopping whilst I fold fair enough.
However in the likely situation that they would refuse , its unlikely my child and shopping, handbag, changing bag will levatate in mid air whilst I do so so its a difficult situation.

I might in some cases get off the bus for the next one so they can go on,but even so theres no way in hell I could get off of bus with a distressed toddler to scream for 15 mins or so in a bustop and then another god knows how long.
When the wheelchair user could just clamly wait another 15 mins for a bus.

Of course you can fold your buggy and hold you child at the same time...or you ask someone to hold your child

Or you stop being a dickhead and get off like any decent human being would do

Archemedes theres no way in hell I could get off of bus with a distressed toddler to scream for 15 mins or so in a bustop and then another god knows how long
Er...why?

Can't be arsed to read all the thread as it's got to be a joke.

I think YABU to think they have the same priority BUT I do also think that with buses its a case of first come first served. If the buggies are on first then its just one of those things unfortunately and vice versa.

I personally would get off the bus for a wheelchair user if I was taking up the space, but I dont think people should be forced or made to feel that they should have to get off if they didnt want to. Id secretly think they are a bit of a twat though.

I used to just get off in London. Because with 3 under 3 and a P&T with a buggy board, it was an actual PITA to fold. But actually only needed to once, very rarely see wheelchair users on that route. Probably because they can't get on with all the mahoosive prams (lots of women at the time had those fucking horrible Tako things. Took up enough room for three Maclarens.)