h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

DON'T!
Busses, trains or tubes just werent designed with prams in mind.
Find another way to travel. Buy one of those baby carriers that strap to your chest. Teach you child to walk. Anything but attempt to push a wheeled object onto public transport.

If you are faced with no alternative, consider the following points.

NEVER travel in rush hour. You will be pushed, shoved, abused,scorned, insulted and despised. For some reason the average commuter considers that anyone taking up more than 1 square foot of footprint space you are violating some international peace treaty.
I can sympathise, the public transport network is usually so bad that overcrowding means one pram takes the place of 5 other people desperate to get home.
So travel light. Find a fold up pram and carry your child while travelling. Insist someone offers you a seat, they do it for pregnant mothers, a born child is much heavier than that!

Accept help from anyone that offers it. Carrying a heavy pram up or down stairs is hard work and dangerous.
Travelling on the london undrground with a pram has given me an overwhelming respect for anyone in a wheelchair. You realise just how much society is tilted to those of us that are fully mobile.

Hello Simon and thanks for your contribution.

Am gathering my thoughts on the matter, but other things keep cropping up so I haven't quite got the text down in a post just yet.



Anna

The old fashioned buses are worse, and some routes only have the old-fashioned kind. You can't even get an umbrella buggy on sometimes. I've found the best solution while the baby is small enough is a backpack.

Off topic, I know, but I once saw a woman at Euston Square get out of her wheelchair, fold it up and start off up the stairs, sitting down, and hauling the wheelchair after her, while several hale and hearty commuters pushed past her.