“I’d love to see any of you try to park a wheelchair with strollers, shopping carts, bags in the way,' one wheelchair user said.
The MTA announced this week that it had created an advisory panel to look at the issue of allowing open strollers in the accessible seating section on buses.
has pitted disability rights advocates who rely on buses, due to the lack of accessibility on the subways, against parents, who said they feel excluded from the bus network.“We’re the ones waiting in the hot, the cold, the rain, because it’s too crowded,” wheelchair user Jessica De La Rosa said. “I’d love to see any of you try to park a wheelchair with strollers, shopping carts, bags in the way. And don’t even think about stubbing a toe.
“This set off alarm bells for disabled passengers who already experience difficulty with bus operators not stopping for them, or conflicts with other passengers in crowded conditions,” she wrote in an email to Gothamist. “How would this be implemented when the bus becomes crowded?" Ryan said. "Will the caregiver be able to fold up the stroller and carry the child? Will the aisle be blocked? What happens if someone with a big stroller insists on coming on? Will the driver have to be the stroller police?”
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