Do you often ride TriMet with your son or daughter? Well, Activistas would like to hear from you! They’re planning on having several individuals meet with TriMet officials in late May to discuss their experiences with bringing young children to ride with them on a regular basis. The main point they’re trying to get across is the cumbersome requirement of having to fold baby strollers when riding (among other ideas that they’ve come up with on how to improve TriMet and make it more family-friendly).
If you’re interested, check out their site and contact them.
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As a parent of two young children, I thoroughly disagree with this group’s assertion that the need to fold strollers makes TriMet unfriendly to families. Let’s face it, strollers have gotten out of hand. They seem to get larger every year, and more parents use them with older children now than ever before.
This seems like a bizarre push by a special interest group that wants to infringe on the space rights of others, including parents who are considerate of the space rights of others.
Unless a child has disabilities, there is no reason he or she should be in a stroller post age two. We are in an age where childhood obesity is surging. Kids can walk. Yes, it is slower. But that’s what parents signed up for when they got pregnant.
Strollers for babies and wobbly toddlers are one thing. Big double strollers for the entire clan of toddler and pre-school age kids is another thing altogether. And that’s what I see more and more, on TriMet and elsewhere in town.
Why doesn’t this group do something to work toward the health of their children, rather than push their SUV size strollers on the rest of the world?
Hey, great point Staheli. Your point about how having your child ride in a stroller due to convenience compared to need is a good one… and definitely something I see a lot of on & off the MAX.
Indeed, Staheli makes some very good points about the seeming increase in both the size and prevalence of strollers. Riding TriMet with a fold-up stroller is one thing, but riding TriMet with a bulky, take-everything-with-you stroller seems quite presumptuous.
Granted, if a family has multiples, such a stroller might be somewhat necessary, but, for most parents, only one child would typically be young enough to definitively warrant the need for a stroller. (The caveat being, as Staheli pointed out, children with disabilities.)
While Staheli’s comments about childhood obesity and stroller use have nothing to do with TriMet, they do make one wonder a bit about all of the factors that have led to the current state of affairs with children and fitness.
Interesting topic. I’m surprised that there are so few posts on this issue.
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