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Post by sid on Jun 20, 2016 6:14:59 GMT
A small minority of buggy mums might behave in that way but it's totally unfair to tarnish them all with the same brush. I was just showing the contrast between different areas. You will obviously know more about the Hounslow area than me, I was just making a general point about buggy mums who seem to be getting much of the blame for the problem. I mean how dare they use a bus for the purpose it was designed for?
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Post by vjaska on Jun 20, 2016 9:32:32 GMT
I was just showing the contrast between different areas. You will obviously know more about the Hounslow area than me, I was just making a general point about buggy mums who seem to be getting much of the blame for the problem. I mean how dare they use a bus for the purpose it was designed for? They are getting the blame because they are the issue and I wouldn't say low floor buses were designed for buggys especially as most buggys can't seem to even board through the front doors in the first place. Surely, they were actually designed with wheelchairs in mind instead and just instead allowed buggys to 'piggyback' along.
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Post by sid on Jun 20, 2016 9:34:51 GMT
You will obviously know more about the Hounslow area than me, I was just making a general point about buggy mums who seem to be getting much of the blame for the problem. I mean how dare they use a bus for the purpose it was designed for? They are getting the blame because they are the issue and I wouldn't say low floor buses were designed for buggys especially as most buggys can't seem to even board through the front doors in the first place. Surely, they were actually designed with wheelchairs in mind instead and just instead allowed buggys to 'piggyback' along. But many low floor buses were advertised as 'buggy buses' highlighting the fact that buggies could be wheeled straight on.
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Post by snoggle on Jun 20, 2016 14:59:59 GMT
You will obviously know more about the Hounslow area than me, I was just making a general point about buggy mums who seem to be getting much of the blame for the problem. I mean how dare they use a bus for the purpose it was designed for? They are getting the blame because they are the issue and I wouldn't say low floor buses were designed for buggys especially as most buggys can't seem to even board through the front doors in the first place. Surely, they were actually designed with wheelchairs in mind instead and just instead allowed buggys to 'piggyback' along. The legislative requirement is for wheelchair accessibility. However there was a massive marketing push, more outside London to be fair, that advertised the new low floor buses as "buggy buses" or "buggy friendly" rather than selling the wheelchair access. Of course there are far, far more people with buggies than people in wheelchairs so the bus companies chased the extra revenue from buggy pushing mums to help pay for the new vehicles. It doesn't take people long to work out that accessible vehicles are accessible for buggies.
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Post by Red Dragon on Jun 20, 2016 15:42:56 GMT
They are getting the blame because they are the issue and I wouldn't say low floor buses were designed for buggys especially as most buggys can't seem to even board through the front doors in the first place. Surely, they were actually designed with wheelchairs in mind instead and just instead allowed buggys to 'piggyback' along. But many low floor buses were advertised as 'buggy buses' highlighting the fact that buggies could be wheeled straight on. And then folded once on the bus
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