Wheel Chair vs Pushchairs

Gah, I completely forgot about this thread. After seeing the title I thought I was going to see a new sport in which wheelchairs and pushchairs fight it out till the bitter end.


Disappointed.
 
neil3k said:
he has a point though.
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It's an online forum debating a point that has already received an official answer. What I comment on here has no impact on anything.

Don't expect complex and well written posts from me in General Discussion as it's normally wasted and lost among "**** in their letter box" or "nuke it from orbit".
 
I'm intrigued about this...

By extenuation, could the argument be made that - if the bus had been nearly full, able-bodied people should have been made to leave th bus to enable the wheel-chair user to access a wheel-chair slot?

This is one of those areas where legislation will just make matters worse, by more clearly defining what "good manners" should explain quite clearly, and remove any use for said manners as a result.

I personally think it's sad on both counts: that the mother didn't move (or attempt to move, I suppose?) and the disabled person felt the need to sue.
 
i'd say priority should be given to the wheelchair user.

If your in a wheelchair and you board a bus to find a pushchair in the space you can't travel simple as.

If you board with a pushchair you can take the kid out and travel.
 
Priority should go to whoever was on first, like it is for able bodied people. If the pushchair can be folded up and stored, that should happen to make space for the wheelchair user. Problem is some of these new pushchairs are so sodding huge and heavy it can be impossible to do that.
 
What a sad state of affairs when someone's 'convenience' is more important then the free movement and time of a disabled person!

DECENT people bend over backwards to help out fellow humans who have clearly been dealt a rough hand in life, this 'I'm al-right jack pull up the ladder' attitude utterly stinks and is a complete embarrassment to our species!!

Move your pram you selfish, self-entitled and arrogant a-hole, decent civilized parents do this all the time on buses so your pathetic excuses and arguments are weaker than your limp wrists !!
 
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Antony101 said:
As a single mother of three my mother managed to get a bus home from Morrison's with two young children, a baby and a pushchair plus a weeks shopping when she couldn't afford a taxi or had no lift.

Mothers these days are lazy as ****.
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That's as may be but it is still clearly a first come owns the space situation.
 
fatdog said:
Was he polite or just another angry wheel chair user who thinks it's OK to boss People around?
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What a lovely, thoughtful comment.
Maybe, just maybe, being disabled and in a wheelchair is actually pretty tough. With the addition of pain, discomfort and inability to get into shops or access transport easily I'm not surprised some are short-tempered.
 
This happened in Leeds, hardly surprising. :D Jokes aside i believe that that the pushchair and mother should have moved. Baby on seat, fold up pushchair, put pushchair in designated area, baby on lap. Hey presto!
 
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Haggisman said:
Precisely. It's still discrimination. In order for there to be true equality, there should be an equal number of wheelchair spots as there are spots for non-disabled passengers.
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That could be considered true if the number of potential bus users requiring a wheelchair space is the same as the number of potential bus users who don't. Which isn't anywhere near being true. Going down that route would be clear and extreme discrimination against people who don't use a wheelchair, since they would be allowed only a significantly inferior bus service. They'd only be allowed to use the rear third (at most) of the bus. Almost every bus would be at most 1/3rd full, which would greatly increase the price of tickets and require a huge increase in the number of buses, which wouldn't be possible at any cost in most towns and cities. You would, essentially, be making buses impossible.
 
Whilst I'm not going to argue about who is right/wrong in this situation. ( each argument has its own merits)

What annoys me is the fact that the aggrieved party felt the need to sue someone over it. compensation culture is ridiculous in this country.

Sometimes life gives you lemons. Get over it
 
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