I CAN fully understand the frustration of Mr and Mrs Jakeman and their problems with getting a wheelchair on the bus (The Press, October 14).

The designated space is meant primarily for wheelchairs, then buggies, but the trouble is that nowadays most buggies will not fold up. Some are so big that they take up almost as much room as an old-fashioned Silver Cross pram would, but in those days no one expected to get on a bus with a pram.

If a pushchair is already on the bus, there is nowhere else for it to go other than to block the aisle and however sympathetic the driver is, he can’t very well tell the buggy owner to get off.

Add to this people with shopping trolleys and the elderly with walkers and buses can be like an assault course, even for the able-bodied.

I wouldn’t like to be a bus driver who has to sort all this out. Whatever the driver does to try to solve, someone is always going to be upset.

Mrs P Witlea, Bishopthorpe, York.