RedeyeChicago news just recently voiced an online campaign to scrap the C.T.A controversial stroller constraints on buses, which has been making steam among parenting groups on social networks. Michelle Parker, of Lakeview, prepared an online petition asking for stroller users to have the same rights as wheelchair users after a bus driver told her she had to fold her stroller to board a bus. The petition, which Parker prepares to submit to the CTA, has amassed more than 160 signatures since last Tuesday.

The Authorities stroller policy is one of the most divisive rider concerns. According to C.T.A guidelines, stroller users are encouraged to fold their strollers before entering the bus if crowded. Strollers may only remain open in reserved seating unless a senior or rider with an impairment requires the space. A representative said... "This is an absurd petition. I've raised 2 youngsters. I comprehend the difficulties of handling kids and their stroller and diaper bag on the C.T.A That said, it never ever struck me that senior or handicapped individuals should be on a par with my circumstances. I have choices; they do not."

Federal law makes it a requirement for the C.T.A, and other transit firms to designate reserved seating to seniors and riders with disabilities. CTA spokesperson Catherine Hosinski said... "Children in strollers are very welcome on the CTA, however there is a hierarchy who gets reserved seating on demand. Riders in wheelchairs or scooters, riders with other physical disabilities not in mobility devices, the elderly, expectant moms and riders with children in strollers, and afterwards everyone else."

Some riders have pressed the Authority to enhance their policy making all riders to fold their strollers, a rule on Pace suburban buses. However Parker and those who signed the petition are requesting reserved seating to be designated for strollers, in addition to individuals in wheelchairs and seniors. Parker, aged 36, said... "I think at the end of the day, it's just recognition for moms with very young children, you see, strollers are their wheelchairs." Parker included that when she has boarded a bus with her young kids in a stroller, she has come across hostility from bus drivers, who refused to lower the bus so she might board, as well as disrespectful remarks said by other riders as she boarded.

Problems about strollers on buses are a regular topic at CTA reunions that enable remarks from the public. The Authority attempted to vanquish a few of these aggravations in 2012 when the authority launched a stroller awareness campaign. Bus drivers handed out fliers motivating riders to "Be Stroller Savvy" when the bus is crowded, by utilizing small umbrella strollers, as well as folding the stroller with stroller organizer attached. In the six months after the campaign began, stroller problems were down 60 percent, CTA president Forrest Claypool said in 2014. However Parker is hoping the C.T.A shall revisit its policy and tell drivers to be more accommodating to riders with strollers. Parker said... "I am hoping it's an easy solution for them, and it doesn't become world war 3, however we'll see."

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