AFTER reading the complaints over the past few months regarding mothers with children in buggies and disabled wheelchair users not being able to board buses because of not enough space, this made me remember growing up in the 1950s and 60s when the buses were double deckers with a conductor.

I can remember parents with kids would take them out of the pushchair and fold it up and the conductor would put the pram under the stairwell of the old double decker buses.

The young mothers these days make no attempt to do this and expect to be allowed on the bus with the buggy and kid still sitting in it.

Some of the buggies are very bulky and even double buggies.

There is a luggage rack on the bus for such things and maybe if they did use them there would be more room for disabled wheelchairs.

KEVIN MANNION
Orford