Barcelona metro sucks for parents with strollers / prams

Hola,

Just thought I'd state the obvious and let everyone know that it really sucks having an 18 month old in a stroller, trying to fight your way through the Barcelona metro system.

I don't know the numbers, but it seems to me that few stops have elevators, and it seems fairly random, as to which ones do (Girona, Catalunya, Glories, ....). And (this is just a pet peeve) some have the bizarre distinction of making you go up in order to go down. ...Meaning you go up one elevator, walk across some hallway, then down 2 floors to the platform. ...I love watching tourists try to make sense of the flow chart diagrams that are posted.

Also, the stations that have escalators generally only have ones that go up. This is fine for the average Joe, but it's just as hard to carry a stroller downstairs as upstairs.

They also don't believe in ramps underground either, as there are often 3 or 4 steps up, and then 3 or 4 steps down, randomly. I can't imagine being handicapped. ...How the heck would that work?

Also, beware the transfer. Looking at a metro map, it seems you can easily change lines underground (green to Yellow at Passeig de Gracia for example). However, in reality you have to carry your 35 pound (18 kilo?) kid plus stroller and supplies up and down, up and down, up and down, hundreds of stairs before you get to the platform.

Anyway, that's my rant for the day.

Cheers.

p.s. does anyone have a link to a metro map (or list) that shows which stations do have elevators? thanks.