Our Children's Safety Matters To Us: Stop the Banning of Strollers on Busses
- Target:
- City of Ottawa and Oc Transpo
- Region:
- Canada
- Website:
- www.facebook.com
The City of Ottawa and it's Counsellors, as well as the OC Transpo Safety Committee are going to re-visit the issue of strollers on city busses. They want to ban the use of all strollers, except Umbrella strollers on busses. A parent with a child or children would have to fold their stroller, hold their child and bags and belongings.
They have already turned this issue down once in November of 2009 and are now going back and re-visiting it.
This is a petition to stop the BAN of using strollers on Ottawa City busses. They want us parents to fold our strollers and hold our child(ren) on the bus, while holding a diaper bag and other belongings and not to mention balancing a folded stroller, somehow. The only type of stroller that would be allowed on the buses unfolded, would be an "Umbrella Stroller".
Umbrella strollers are not recommended for children UNDER the age of 1 year old. For a child to be in an umbrella stroller, they suggest that they should be able to hold their head up sturdy and without help, as well as sit up alone, without help.
Also, it is law in Canada that a child is not to be in a car without a carseat. A city bus is a much bigger means of transportation, and in the event of an accident, a child is much safer in a stroller with proper restraints then in your arms, juggled with many other items and belongings.
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The Our Children's Safety Matters To Us: Stop the Banning of Strollers on Busses petition to City of Ottawa and Oc Transpo was written by Cayla Dalgetty and is in the category Children's Rights at GoPetition.