MP Fights for Double Buggies

11.55.07am GMT Tue 31st Oct 2006

After an intervention by MP Vincent Cable Transport for London has said that it will reconsider its policy of stopping mothers taking double buggies onto buses through the large rear doors.

Vincent Cable says that mothers with more than one young child "find life on the buses difficult enough without having drivers refusing to let them on through a door when there is space. If we are to get away form the mindset where young mums feel they have to have a big car to get their children around, the buses have to be user friendly and, at present, they are anything but".

Vincent Cable has been told by the Health and Safety Executive that there is no safety issue involved and that the matter is for the bus company to make its own risk assessment. Transport for London tell me that they have agreed to review the policy and will decide in a few weeks".