Is your Baby Buggy Bus Friendly? What to look for in a Baby Transporter
If women designed buses, then one of the first changes they would probably make is to storage space for buggies, and access on and off. If you have ever struggled alone to get on public transport with your sleeping baby in one hand, and your half closed baby buggy in the other, you will know what I mean; It’s embarrassing at first, but the amount of times that it happens means that you just get used to it. In the real world, where economics and not the heart rules, we know that buses are not going to change so if we are buying a means of transport for our babies and toddlers, what should we look for?
Weight is a definite point to be aware of when you and your partner are choosing a new transporter, either online or struggling around the shops. You are looking for something that is light enough to carry in one hand when folded up, but is solid enough to withstand the pressures of being hauled on and off a bus. Let’s face it, buying a baby buggy is not cheap, so you also want it to be still functioning when your child is between 15 to 20 kilos, and not lying in a heap of twisted bits in the cupboard under the stairs. You should be looking at something that weighs under 10 kilograms. So light but durable is the first pointer on our quest for the bus friendly buggy.
You need a baby buggy that you can fold up quickly with one hand. So what this means, is that your ideal buggy should include a switch or lever which will do the work for you, and is reliable enough to work time after time, after time, after time……….ok, so you get the picture What is worst than trying to get onto a bus, with your baby transporter that has just decided it doesn’t want to close fully. Some manufacturers of pushchairs, still make the whole thing of closing them more complicated that they need be, and this is something you need to avoid.
The last main point we should be aware of, is the size of the transporter when folded up. An ideal buggy should be extremely compact in this position for obvious reasons of storage during any journey.
Of course there are other things to take into consideration when purchasing something that is going to carry such a valuable cargo, but the above points should be near the top of your list. A friend of my wife and I, to get around the inconvenience of bus travel, goes out with her buggy and a baby sling, so when she is boarding the bus she just slips her little boy into the sling and folds-up the carrier. This belt and braces approach to the topic works; maybe you should consider it if you do a lot of travelling on public transport.
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