The MTA announced plans to allow parents to bring open strollers on 1,000 buses across the city.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.On Tuesday, the MTA announced plans to allow parents to bring open strollers on 1,000 buses across the city.that allowed riders to bring strollers on 140 buses serving seven of the agency’s routes. The program was launched after parents raised concerns over an MTA policy that required them to fold their strollers and carry their young children while riding buses.
Last year, disability rights advocates raised concerns that wheelchair users and parents with strollers would compete for seats, possibly leading to confrontations. But MTA officials said those conflicts didn’t arise during the pilot. Annicaro said the agency clocked roughly 2,500 riders with strollers on buses since the pilot launched. The strollers were most present on the B1 route between Bay Ridge and Manhattan Beach, Annicaro said.
“The small amount of research on this problem showed that making a new space for strollers on buses worked well in other places,” wrote Jessica Murray, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Transit Accessibility to the MTA, in an email. “Most importantly, it didn’t interfere with the hard-fought accessible seating area that people with disabilities need to be able to ride the bus, took pressure off bus operators to enforce an unpopular policy, and made space for more passengers during peak times.
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