A parent's (and daily rush hour commuter's) response to the MBTA's stroller ban: Just Say No.

My response to the T's online survey (here's some of the backstory):

I think it's unfortunate that we even have to answer this question.  As if parents who need to use the T with young children have the ability to do this.  How is a single parent with a 6 month-old in a stroller going to fold up a stroller - ask a stranger to hold the baby while they do it?  Put the baby on the sidewalk?  On the bus-stop (or T-stop bench) and hope they don't roll off?  The problem on the T is passengers who make a point of not making room for other passengers just because they don't want to be "crowded".  In my experience there is a certain percentage of the "rush hour demographic" that is bitter about the fact that they even have to ride the T to get to work (these people would be much happier in suburban office parks, sad to say) and they get proportionally more uncooperartive and rude as the train gets more crowded.   Fixing the T's frequent problem with late rush hour trains would do much to alleviate this problem.  Picking on parents with strollers will not -  strollers are a relatively rare occurence on my daily rush hour orangle line commute between Sullivan and DTX,  yet it is often crowded with passengers who are all too often disrepectful and rude to each other.