I gather that everyone would prefer me or someone in my situation to get off a bus and walk what could be 3/4 miles home with a heavy buggy and a toddler who probably can't walk that far anyway. I am sorry about not being Christian enough to sacrifce my childs best interest but I'm not Christian so that probably explains my lack of morality.

I forgot to mention the furore that usually accompanies the ' folding of the buggy' ie tut tutting, head shaking, ( I travel on London buses without a buggy for work so see this every day) so it seems that parents/carers can't win.

Thanks for asking; I've had to miss loads of buses; its usually because there is already the full quota of buggies on there which is fair dos but actually quite often because passengers refuse to move down a little and out of the buggy space. I watch, almost on a daily basis , at a bus stop in Brixton, when parents with single buggies have difficulty getting on either the 35 or 45 buses to Peckham from Brixton, even when they are clearly first in the queue. Everyone else just piles on and barges buggies out of the way. I could recount dozens of examples where I have been trying to board a bus with a single buggy and as the door opens someone else just barges on. This is most parents experience of London transport.

My view is similar to the Ryanair view- remove most of the seats to enable more young children and wheelchair users to board with seats mainly reserved for the elderly and infirm. And pregnant women of course. As its probably the last chance they'll have to sit down and enjoy people being polite to them before the 'rotten to mother' culture kicks in.....