Toronto's TTC looking at limiting strollers on buses, streetcars

[spraggamuffin]

I take the TTC everyday around 9 AM to 9:30AM. I still consider this rush hour in that buses still get packed.

I see many coming on at this time with huge strollers.

Those who are not on there way to work or dropping the kids off to Kindergarden should wait till rush hour is passed and buses are empty.

I don't mind people bring their strollers on, but don't bring your house and land with it.

Also, many just park at the front of the bus in the little space between the two front wheel wells.

This, despite the fact there is room further down the corridor of the bus plus they never noticed someone making a seat vacant for them.

They continue to gossip on their cellphones as they are oblivious to passengers trying to pass by.

Those women with those wire shopping carts that are empty but fully open and sit right at the front of the bus cause problems too.

Once witnessed a crazed cart lady try to put the beat down on an oblivious mother with a stroller parked right at the front of the bus blocking all traffic.

I certainly don't blame the kids, but some of these mothers are lazy both physically and mentally.

Their lack of effort to asses a situation and adapt accordingly only serves to make an already bad situation worse.

 

[avxl1003]

Those who are not on there way to work or dropping the kids off to Kindergarden should wait till rush hour is passed and buses are empty.

I don't think it should be a "rule" per se. I would like to think that most people would use common sense and plan (where possible) to avoid rush hour..

As far as people moving back.. I find there are more regular riders who refuse to make room than people with strollers.. On virtually any bus with an elevated rear section (most buses within Toronto proper these days), nobody wants to sit in the rear section. Everybody stays within the front two thirds.. And a woman with a stroller can't get up into the rear section, so it's especially annoying.

 

[Rockslinger]

Those women with those wire shopping carts that are empty but fully open and sit right at the front of the bus cause problems too.

Then there are the students and other folks with huge backpacks. Another time, I saw 2 gentlemen struggling to bring a large screen TV on the bus. Difficult to make everybody happy.

 

[danislaw]

If you have kids, you should have enough money to afford a car and a house in a suburban area. Why the fuck would you want to subject your kid to riding the crowded, shit-smelling TTC buses/streetcars and living downtown with the assorted creeps/homeless fucks.

 

[james t kirk]

If you have kids, you should have enough money to afford a car and a house in a suburban area. Why the fuck would you want to subject your kid to riding the crowded, shit-smelling TTC buses/streetcars and living downtown with the assorted creeps/homeless fucks.

You do realize that in general living in downtown Toronto is more desireable (and considerably more costly) than living in the god forsaken suburbs. Not everyone wants to live the bullshit suburban lifestyle of mini vans, SUVs, green fences and decks.

 

[Polaris]

If you have kids, you should have enough money to afford a car and a house in a suburban area. Why the fuck would you want to subject your kid to riding the crowded, shit-smelling TTC buses/streetcars and living downtown with the assorted creeps/homeless fucks.

This is not a downtown problem. This is a suburbia problem, problem with transit.

Downtown, the stroller stays on the sidewalk as we still walk everywhere.

How many moms or dads has been seen pushing a stroller on an arterial road in Scarborough, North York or Etobicoke for a few kilometers? Never.

And they don't want to build subways out there.

Guess you get what you deserve. Nothing!

:thumb:

 

[red]

My view is babies and seniors first. Able bodied young adults can wait for the next bus or walk. A society is judged by how it treats its babies and seniors.

exactly right.

 

[toptech]

If you have kids, you should have enough money to afford a car and a house in a suburban area. Why the fuck would you want to subject your kid to riding the crowded, shit-smelling TTC buses/streetcars and living downtown with the assorted creeps/homeless fucks.

Worded alittle harshly but true. No way in hell am I letting my wife on a TTC bus with a stroller especially in rush hour. No one realizes why buses become late and get short turned. From what I see short turns are due to of course traffic but also the time it takes some people to get on and off the bus. Some routes are brutal with senior citizens who can barely walk as it is and their buggies loaded with groceries, just an accident waiting to happen.

On another note thought I would mention this after I saw it the other day. Bus pulls up picks up two people standing at the stop and starts to pull away, this stupid kid who was sitting in the shelter playing on his phone realizes the bus is leaving runs and forces the bus to stop again. I told the bus driver he should not have stopped and he mentioned the weather and no problem the bus is close to getting short turned anyways so he does not care.

On another note II, I see lots of empty Wheel trans around so why are people with motorized wheel chairs taking buses. I guess convenience as they have to book a Wheel trans ride but come on these things all slow down public transit.

There is very little common sense in Toronto.

Ok start the criticizing.

 

[red]

of course you would side with babies and seniors... You fit not BOTH categories :Eek:

LMAO. sad but true