Secret message on Advisernet

Hello

Well OK not strictly speaking a welfare benefits issues, but has anyone else noticed the picture on Advisernet homepage of buses in a bus station which is highlighting free bus travel. But is there another issue being highlighted here. All I can say is ‘you can lead a bus company to wheelchair user access, but you can’t teach it common sense’.

Sorry, no prize for the first person to post the bus companies mistake.

There’s no pictures of buses on my advisernet homepage.

Do you mean Advisernet or Rightsnet home page?

On Advisernet for those of you who have it, although on January’s.

Our mainly single-decker town buses - Arriva - are wheelchair-friendly, though they only have limites space suitable which is all too often taken up with those enormous four-wheel drive baby buggies - dreadful things. The buses curtsy like the London bendy-buses to let people on.
We had a client who had been a bus-driver and left partly because of the aggro he got from passengers including a complaint from a wheelchair user he couldn’t let on the bus for this very reason.
Make way for an argy-bargy between pram-pushers and wheelchair users as to who should take preference on buses…there is no correct answer to this!

I’m with you on the enormous baby-buggies, Ariadne. I’ve seen smaller people-carriers.

First buses in Manchester and Arriva buses in Liverpool have notices that say wheelchair users get precedence over buggy users. But can’t say I’ve seen any conflict over the rule on my bus journeys, as I haven’t seen wheelchair and buggy owners trying to get on the bus at the same time so far.