The original idea of the buggy was that it could be easily folded up & carried like an umbrella by a mum struggling with toddlers & shopping. Now they really are palanquins signalling to everybody else that the rights of the child come first, so you, whatever your age, must just get up & move out of the way – to another seat if you are lucky. The space which was once sufficient to park three buggies side by side will now accommodate only one.
Or to put it another way, two mums with a buggy each take up six, or sometimes eight, seats.
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