Buggies must be folded by law, if a wheelchair user wishes to board

[BerniceBroadside]

I know this can be a hot topic so thought I'd share that stagecoach have new signs on their buses stating that buggies must be folded by law if a wheelchair user wishes to board. Let's hope it's actually enforced.

Was quite amusing to see the extremely nasty gobby entitled woman who was threatening the bus driver and other passengers almost arrested. I hope she was actually, but we'd driven on well before the police had finished with her.

Oh and Dawn sorry saying any mother desperate to get out should just stay at home is beyond retaliating to.

If you refuse to fold down your pram because you CBA, you won't be going anywhere in a hurry if I'm on the bus with DDs wheelchair, cause the only place I'll be moving is into the wheelchair space that you will vacate at some point.

I'm afraid you are correct, Gobby. Seems like we haven't really moved on from the 1980s and early 1990s when my dad could rarely leave the house because of access issues.

Retro the non vanishing buggy loses. It is law now, despite what was said upthread. 35 years of hard work has finally paid off.

Fairy yes I pictured my 3 folded up with legs flailing about.

It's not so much the buggy guys as the 3 babies in it!

need she refused to fold or get off. Then she threatened the bus driver. And the passengers who stepped in. She deserved it completely.

As for retailiating to. You can go out. You have other options, that's the whole fucking point, you still have options that people with disabilities do not have.

Retro dawndonna also said learn to fold not just stay at home, yet you said to me if there weren't accessible buggies thats exactly what you would do. Make your mind up.

But it's hard, Dawndonna.

Yes Dawn it's law and as I say if it leads to multiple mums getting booted off it's a problem and not progress as you've excluded one group for another.

No one had to get booted off though Retro.

They just have to learn to fold a buggy and hold their child/children.

Start your campaign then Retro.

need I completely agree - no one willing to fold should be turfed off public transport.

Just like they had to do before wheelchair spaces existed.

There are many more multiple families and many more people using the buses.We're not talking about 1 baby(which anybody could handle) but 2 or 3 or more.

Thymeout, no issue with trollies being used. Massive issue with them blocking aisles, wheelchair spaces or other priority seats when the owner has been asked nicely to move them, and offered assistance, but has refused.

Ironically it's often other elderly people who struggle to get past or who are unable to sit at the front because of tesco tessie.

Presumably tesco tessie is the parent of maxomummy and retropear.

Oh good grief?

Anybody, just anybody, is it me?

Why would someone willing to fold be booted off?

They wouldn't.

It isn't just you Dawndonna!