RULES * Australia - Prams put squeeze on buses
Prams are getting bigger, but buses are notSydney,New South Wales,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, Jacob Saulwick -January 21, 2008: -- ... The two came into conflict when drivers last week told Julie Mackenzie she could not bring her double pram through the back door of a bus... Drivers used to let the Marrickville mother of twins enter through the back door, but clamped down after State Transit reissued an order prohibiting it... Ms Mackenzie, 44, is angry. "Basically, I can't catch the bus any more, so I think it is discriminating," she said... In some buses, prams have to be parked opposite the back door, where seats fold up to create space, but larger prams cannot fit through the aisle to get to the space. Ms Mackenzie said the only way she could take her 11-month-old daughterson the bus was if she handed them to passengers through the front door, folded the pram and carried it to allocated space, and then retrieved her babies from the front... State Transit said the problem was limited to 75 buses in the 2000-strong fleet, which were fitted for wheelchair entry through the rear doors... (Photo: Kate Geraghty - Grounded … Julie Mackenzie buckles in twins Stella and Lily. She has had to give up on bus travel)
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