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.

I think we need a brickwall smiley.

needaholiday thats aimed at anyone wahwahwahing about having to fold a buggy and hold a child/children.

Mothers of multiples never got public transport before wheelchair users campaigned for wheelchair spaces? I'm sure that's true.

My three have four years between them all (would have been less but lost one between dc2 and 3).

Toddler years were a piece of piss compared to now. Both me and DH could hold down jobs.

Disability changes your lives in ways you just can't comprehend unless you've been there. You just can't.

But I mean it when I say the attitudes of other people (and they really are much more negative, selfish and unhelpful than the opposite) are what nearly brings me to breaking point every time. If not on here in RL for example the people in the London Science Museum that kept barging past the wheelchair into the lift because they couldn't be arsed to use the stairs meaning my then 7 year old soiled himself. Robbing him of his dignity.

You may think not wanting to inconvenience yourself on one thing is small and insignificant, but when the majority of people think and act that way it means our life is constantly being made difficult all the time. It really, really gets you down.

One group has not been excluded for another.

If parents want buggy spaces, campaign for them. Simple. Disabled people and their carers did and they have got them.

I am sick to the fucking back teeth of people moaning about the perceived 'perks' that disabled people have because their lives are such a bed of roses, aren't they?

It is,also,a tad ironic bleating about someone saying that you should stay in if you aren't prepared to fold your buggy, because each time you don't fold it, or nip in the disabled loo, or just park in the blue badge space while you just run to the shop or nip to the cash point, you are making disabled people's lives that much harder. The knock on effect of that is they stop going out because they can't be arsed with the battle!

I don't give a flying fuck if you have quadruplets aged 1 and triplets aged 2, you have to move them because it is a wheelchair space. When you have buggy spaces, then you can come on here and get arsey with the world.

P.S. Equality does mean everyone has exactly the same. Some people really need to get with the picture!

Oh I can fold a buggy.

Fold a buggy,hold 3 wriggling babies and a nappy bag on a fast moving bus not so much.

Anyhow not my problem but it will be an issue for others- sadly but hey I'll leave you to froth and character assassinate all buggy users the maj of whom are happy to fold( some just can't).

It is the same every time this kind of thread comes up. Head, brick wall. This, disabled parking and soon enough there will be someone starting a thread complaining that their visit to the panto was spoiled by a child with additional needs.

I mean in reality how many times would you have to actually fold? I think someone said 4 times in years.

That's nothing to lots of little things every day.

You can, though.
You just don't want to.

Nice Candy- progress?

They'd have loved last night then Spikey.
Theatre full of 280 individuals with SN and their families. Was magic

Maybe this thread should be moved to SN- i think there are bigger issues with society and treatment shouted by some on here that may be best answered there than on AIBU

If people with disabilities hadn't fought for the right to access buses, you wouldn't have any choice but to fold or walk.

Oh for goodness sake Gobby you're just inventing threads.

I.would.have.gadly.folded.if.I.could.have.

But hey you carry on.

Oh of course cos those NASTY people shouldn't be discussed in the fraightfully naice 'normal' worked, should they?

Would you rather stick your fingers in your ears, clamp your eyes shut and go la la la la?

You chose to have 3 wriggly babies Retro and you chose to get on the bus with them knowing by law you would have to fold or get off if a wheelchair user got on.

I did not choose to be disabled. I can not leave my disability at home and go out shopping on my own when DH is home, it won't go away it will always be there, getting worse and worse. I don't use the bus because I can't walk to the bus stop. The last time I did was at an airport. All the parents had their toddlers and DC taking up seats while I had to stand, on my sticks, on a moving bus!

Come on then, when is this campaign for buggy spaces starting? I'll even sign the petition.

Yeah, cos this thread isn't at all relevant for people with poor awareness of disability and SN, is it, Fluffytent?

No this thread should not be moved to SN. People with no experience of using public transport with a wheelchair need to know about this.

Maybe this thread should be moved to SN- i think there are bigger issues with society and treatment shouted by some on here that may be best answered there than on AIBU

Why?

worked world

Like I said I think some are getting very angry on here at others who have not caused a problem. You may feel better supported on SN- just trying to help.

Exactly parcelfancy/maillotjaune.

It isn't parents of children with disabilities that need to know the facts.

No I didn't choose to have 3 wriggly babies under 15 months.

Most multiple parents don't choose it,it doesn't exactly work like that.