Wheelchairs have priority over buggies in the wheelchair space on buses
I’m a full-time wheelchair user. I’ve lived in London 14 years. Being unable to get on a bus due to there being buggies in the wheelchair priority space happens to me on a weekly basis (a conservative estimate).
I understand that many buggies these days don’t fold, and it is difficult to travel with children. I sympathise. However, wheelchair users still have priority, for these reasons:
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There are many more buggies than wheelchairs. Statistically, it is likely the next bus will also have a buggy. If I didn’t have priority and always had to wait for a bus without a buggy, I would regularly be waiting for the 3rd, 4th, 5th bus, making bus travel totally unfeasible.
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I use a wheelchair full time, and will do so for my whole life. So I obviously get buses in a wheelchair 100% of the time. Parents will only be travelling with buggies for a short period of their lives.
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Buggies should be folded! Wheelchairs cannot be.
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Wheelchair users have extremely limited alternatives for travel (the nearest step free Tube station is miles away).
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The only reason the space exists in the first place is because disabled activists campaigned successfully for a change in bus design. We fought for our right to use buses.
I always try to keep calm in these scenarios and be polite and gentle, but this man was so awful (and couldn’t be reasoned with) that I swore at him. It’s exhausting having to constantly battle just to go about daily life.
Please, if you travel with a buggy and a wheelchair user needs to board, fold it or vacate the space.
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Post it again without blurring his face. He doesn't deserve anonymity - he's in a public space and he's an ass.
One frame where you can see his scummy face.
He’s fucked
Looks exactly like the piece of shit I imagined
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"a much better life than you're having"
WHAT!?
Such an absolute arse hole.
Absolute wanker
This is absolutely disgraceful the bus driver should have announced that the bus won’t be moving until the buggies followed the rules and left.
It’s a simple rule, wheelchairs take priority and there’s multiple good reasons why this rule exists.
OP you need to report the bus route and time of day it’s on camera and it’ll serve as an important lesson to drivers about how this situation should be managed.
The buggies don't have to leave, the parent needs to pick up the child and fold the buggy, or leave. What a twat.
I’m a wheelchair user. If I took the time to reach out and report every time something like this happened to me on public transport I’d never be doing anything else. This type of thing happens so so regularly, it’s not an abnormal incident for us and we can’t follow up and go through a complaint process every time it happens. That’s just how it is for us.
Why didn't they move the buggie? They didn't have to get off.
That "Fuck you actually" was cathartic. Well done!
Hate how everyone else stayed quiet.
I heard a woman backing her up saying she gets priority. He was probably the scariest guy on the bus so no-one else confronted him.
Unblur his face.
The problem is that the bus drivers do nothing about it
This is true, I was a buggy on a bus with 3 other buggies, a wheelchair user tried to get on, ready to get off for them, and the bus just drove off
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