"This thread is going around in circles. Can we all agree that the 176 driver should stop and allow parents / carers with buggies to board the bus when there is room? "

Seems we can’t. There are some posting on this thread that have far too unrealistic expectation of mothers with young children and don’t want to appreciate that they are deserving members of public too. It seems that they should be grateful for being allowed to use public transport on a list of conditions:
1 – only 2 buggies on each bus (if one cares to stop that is)
2 – must fold them to accommodate other passenger needs, because some needs are more important (why is this? Are we less human?)
3 – get a lecture how someone’s mother did it in her stride 30 or 60 years ago, or how they bought wrong kind of buggy
Please read post #59. Add to that if mother is having more than one child some of the above requests become too much to do with one pair of hands.


"Roz, you use the most extreme of instances to back up your points, when others could easily use a lightweight buggy when it's appropriate to do so for the child."

No she is not. Roz is just trying to explain how hard it is to look after more than one child on a bus. And I believe that she would avoid using buses if she had an alternative solution to her commitments.