I'm bugged by bigger buggies
I notice this Indian summer has brought an awful lot of pregnant women out on to public transport, and while I totally sympathise with their plight as they struggle with their born and unborn children, I am finding myself more concerned with the enormous size of the modern baby buggy.
These buggies block the aisles on buses as well as small shops and take up most of the pavement, especially if the mother has her other children in tow!
One morning I travelled from Bilston to Wolverhampton on the No79 route. As well as having a completely full bus, including a young man in a wheelchair, one child in a pushchair and a baby buggy, there was also an assortment of shopping trolleys of varying sizes. As I looked around the bus I began to wonder what would happen if we all tried to get off in an emergency. My mind boggled!
I nostalgically thought of when my own children were small and we had to take them to town. I remembered that we had a very small, fold-up pushchair - it was almost as small as an umbrella. If these little pushchairs are not available today, then a marvellous market awaits some manufacturer.
By the way, I saw a young man give up his seat on the Metro for a pregnant woman as I travelled home. The age of chivalry is not dead.
Roy C Girdler, Clarence Road, Bilston.
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