To ask where are you supposed to put a pram on a bus?

[bobstersmum]

Got a bus today for the first time in years, I had baby in buggy and 4 year old ds plus some bags, luckily I managed to fold the buggy and pay, get sat down etc, but I had no idea where to put the buggy?
There was a rack thing for bags but no way would the buggy have fit up there, I ended up leaving it at front /side of me but it was in the way really!
What do people do?

I don't know. I'm lucky that the buses in my area have 2 areas at the front so plenty of space for both buggy and wheelchairs. But there is no luggage rack big enough to put even a small buggy in. I always wonder when people say fold down the buggy if they have been on some newer buses which have taken away the space to add seats.

Pretty much all the buses in Birmingham have an area of clear floor for buggies. If it's full, fold it and stick it in the luggage space, or against a seat.

And if you have an enormous tank of a pram or pushchair, don't be surprised that you have trouble putting it somewhere. I'm sure half the pushchairs nowadays are ten times the size they were when I was a child.

But when there is no luggage rack? And if you stick it by a seat then you are stopping that seat being used. It's very difficult. I have just not got on a bus before as ibknew I couldn't juggle Dd, my bags and trying to balance a folded up buggy on a moving bus. I think in a lot of cities there is space for them but in more rural areas less so.

Safari, no I wouldn't be daft enough to try and get on a bus with something that didn't fold up reasonably, mine folds in half and stands up itself but still, while holding my heavy 9 month old plus bags I didn't have any hands free to stash it anywhere properly. I wasn't expecting anyone helping before anyone suggests I was! I was genuinely surprised that there was no space, what if there had been several mums on the bus all with buggies?

We have a few different designs of bus where I live, the newer ones have a buggy zone and a wheelchair zone but next to no luggage rack (it's been replaced with a metal container thing for the free paper) and the older ones have just a wheel chair area and a slightly larger luggage rack (still not very large though). On both types I wheel my buggy on and park it in either the buggy zone or wheelchair space.

X post with you there op. I suppose it depends on how busy your buses are. The ones I get are generally quite quiet and it would be silly to do anything other than just wheel it on and park it. It would be very different on a packed commuter bus though.

Nowhere ,that's why you wear condoms with non drivers

at condoms with non-drivers. Buggies the size of tanks Yawn. So glad things wuz so much better back in your day safariboot well done you. most buggies now a days are flimsy bits of shite like those hideous Bugaboos

Unless the bus is rammed I don't see anything wrong in using a seat for a buggy or other luggage. If it's rammed, stand with the folded buggy surely?

But yes, I forgot about the bloody Metro holder hogging the luggage space.

The general thing appears to be not to fold them - just use the wheelchair / buggy space and get off of a wheelchair user needs it. But that’s in London where if the space is full you just wait for the next bus (or walk!) - but where My Mum lives there are only three buses a day, so I use an umbrella stroller, put 5 year old in seat, hand baby to five year old, fold stroller, put it under our feet, sit next to five year old and take baby. But I mostly just use a carrier / sling because that is a massive faff

Didn't you know OP that there is a designated buggy space on buses now? If a wheelchair user happens to need to use it,tough! It's first come first served! I AM joking btw,but this seems to be a common attitude on buses around where I live.

I've never understood why they got rid of the luggage rack and put that free paper there. I couldn't fit my pushchair on the place where the luggage rack is supposed to be. I just had to lean it in the space for wheelchairs/pushchairs it kept falling down as well.

I think most parents (I know I have), will use the wheelchair space.

This is fine as long as you vacate it as soon as someone in a wheelchair needs it.

This can be you collapsing the buggy or getting off and walking/catching a second bus the rest of the way

There was a wheelchair space on the bus in question but I think it would've been crammed if I'd parked the buggy there and sat down with ds as well, I will just avoid buses in future I think! Are trains any better?

Agree that you use the wheelchair space and vacate if it is needed. In my many years of bus travelling I only ever had to vacate once. Once I had an umbrella fold just kept it by my feet.

Trains are worse. Hardly any lifts, and huge gaps between train and platform.

Our buses you wheel the buggy on and leave it up in the spaces. We have room for 2 buggies or one wheelchair. Sometimes though a kind driver allows extra buggies as you can just stand behind it.

I used to use an umbrella stroller and if I had to fold it I could either stand it in between me(and the baby) and the seat in front, or hook it over my arm if I had to stand. Some buses were buggy friendly and some weren't, so I didn't risk taking my big buggy on the bus.

Trains are generally worse IME.

You are supposed to put the buggy in the wheelchair space, unless it is being used by a wheelchair user.

If men were the ones taking children out in prams 90% of the time instead of the other way round there would be plenty of designated space for buggies, luggage racks and enough space for a newborn to stay asleep in its pram AND two or more wheelchair users to use the bus.

You're so right OP. 'Ooooh, just fold the buggy'. And put it where????

Ah well, according to the lady on the bus this morning what you do is wait and get the 8am bus that passes 4 secondary schools and is always so full the driver has to stop letting people on. You push to the very front of the queue then you ram your buggy right in between the first 2 seats completely blocking the aisle meaning no one can get to the last few empty seats or 2/3 of the standing space. you then get really pissy when the bus driver tells you to fold your buggy and sit the child on your lap, even though its the kind that folds up really small and your child is at least 2.5 judging by the preschool uniform. You create a scene and delay the bus by at least 5 minutes before sitting down and whacking the poor teenager sitting next to you in the knee with your buggy. you then get off 2 stops later, which you in fact could have walked in the time you were causing a scene.

Or, you use the wheelchair space and fold the buggy if someone needs it.

headintheproverbial that wouldn't really work though, because lots of other people have to use the bus as well.