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To think it's common sense to let a w/c user have the w/c spot

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SparkyStar84 · 18/01/2017 14:41

I've just seen the ruling on disabled people getting priority in disabled spots on buses. Isn't that common sense. What kind of person would deny a w/c user the space because 'pushchair'?
I'm a w/c user it makes it easier in a way to get about with children, though I know some w/c users still have a buggy.
This is about the parents who refuse to move, when asked, by someone who might have an appt or something important to get too. Not saying the parent doesn't. But isn't that the point of foldable buggies over great big travel systems?
It just bugs me that people have had to leave the bus because a parent wouldn't move. As a parent with kids of many ages, also remembering times gone by, the purpose of easy foldable buggies is that you can decamp when on the bus.
Do you think it's an issue that buses need to provide buggy spaces too?

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LouMumsnet · 18/01/2017 17:25

Thanks for all the reports about this thread, which we appreciate. This is clearly an emotive subject. Can we remind you all that, whilst we do encourage robust debate on here, it's obviously also really important to be respectful of one another's views. Here's a reminder of the talk guidelines . www.mumsnet.com/info/netiquette. Thanks all.

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KatherineMumsnet · 18/01/2017 18:17

Hi all,

Many thanks for your reports. Please bear with us while we go through them - rest assured, we are looking.

As lots of you will know, disablist posts are against Mumsnet's Talk Guidelines.

As well as obvious abuse and pejorative language, we take a dim view of posts suggesting that it's wrong to implement measures that enable people with disabilities to live a full life, or which seem to say that service providers shouldn't make reasonable adjustments so that disabled people can use services. As well as being potentially disablist, we think that such posts don't fit with Mumsnet's basic philosophy of support and advice for all parents. If you see any posts that you think we need to take a look at on this basis, do please report them to us.

Of course, it's hard to fold up a buggy on a moving bus - especially with a very young baby or more than one child - but the fact is that wheelchair users have priority in law. While we realise that not everyone may have been aware of this, or indeed agree with it, we'd be grateful if posters could bear that in mind in any future posts on the topic.

Our This Is My Child campaign has lots of information about the ways that people can make life a bit easier for disabled people and their carers.

This isn't about limiting valid debate, and of course some people may be posting in genuine ignorance. But where we think posters are refusing to engage sensibly with a debate, or appear to be unwilling to take on board the points that other posters are making, we will take action.

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