Buggies and Buses
- Transport Access Problems For Passengers With Young Children

Our research tells us there is a big problem for parents and grandparents accessing public transport. When starting a journey on an easy access or low loader bus it often breaks down and the exchange bus provided is not an easy access one. This leaves the passenger stranded with babies, toddlers, and shopping, struggling to get home.

They tell us that Transport Operators are assuming all prams and buggies fold up easily, but do they? They also raise the issue of buses running late or indeed not arriving at all.

For example as I write this today (Tuesday 25th September at 12.30pm) I have received information that the number 44 bus from Whitely Bay to Newcastle that should arrive at 9.35 did not arrive instead two buses turned up at 10.05. At the bus stop were 2 pensioners, 1 grandmother and her daughter who had a two year old baby with them, by the time the bus eventually arrived the baby was crying with cold.