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the reality that people are battling over a place to put their wheeled chairs for people that can't walk - "strollers" and "wheel-chairs", seems to reinforce the idea that we need more space where you can put rolling/folding chairs, or conversely less space where there are bolted-down chairs. If you took out say 1/3 to all the bolted-down seats, the bus would have greater capacity and you wouldn't need to limit folding/rolling chairs. Problem solved. If you want to prevent flying hazards, how about installing harness points, and promote the use of a harness on all loose objects? Or how about start by harnessing down the PEOPLE? The reality is bus injuries are exceedingly rare, so flying hazards are kind of a low priority, thus not really a reason to ban strollers. otherwise buses would have seatbelts.

Steve seems to be suggesting that strollers have to be folded because trasit agencies down't want to take out the bolted down seats, even though they seemingly need to do so. Lets add to this that the bolted-down seats now are frequently way too small for the passengers anyway, so a lot of people are taking up 1 1/2 seats, which wastes even more space than before.

All of these problems are solved not by restricting rolling chairs, but by restricting the number of bolted down chairs. Put simply, if people can stand and walk, they should stand and walk. The people need a rolling or folding chair, let those people bring them. Most people won't. If flying objects are a problem, offer harnesses and harness points.

by Lee on Jun 28, 2012 10:27 am • link • report