Navigating your city’s public transit system can be difficult enough as it is, but when you’re looking for wheelchair accessible or stroller friendly routes it can seem almost impossible.
That’s why we’ve partnered with Fit Pregnancy to offer new stroller friendly and wheelchair accessible routes on HopStop! Now you can search for stroller friendly and wheelchair accessible directions in New York City and the tri-state area. We’ll determine accessible routes by searching for accessible transit vehicles (like buses), and subway stations with accessible entrances and exits.
From our website, you can search specifically for accessible routes by checking the Look for Wheelchair Accessible / Stroller Friendly Routes box under the transportation modes.
If your route is accessible you’ll see the wheelchair and stroller icon in your directions:
On our iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry app (Windows phone app coming soon!), if your route is accessible you’ll see the wheelchair and stroller icon in your directions summary.
We’re hoping this new feature will help more people avoid this:
We’d like to thank Big City Moms for hosting The Biggest Baby Shower Ever, where we first announced this new feature!
Will you be using our new stroller friendly and wheelchair accessible routes? Let us know in the comments!
LauLau81
This is really helpful and I am glad that i have found this post...thanks for the idea!!
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Charlotte74
I'm 4 months pregnant with my first child so it looks like this is the kind of thing I've got to look forward to.
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heatherlynn.stevenson
This is great! I sent an email probably over a year ago requesting this...thanks HopStop for listening! Two years ago I was an exhausted new mother, wearing my baby in a sling everywhere despite bad back problems because there are just so few elevators in the subway stations, and the ones they do have are constantly going out of service. With my back issues, the prospect of carrying the combination of baby/stroller/big diaper bag would have been lethal. I felt like I was becoming more depressed just sitting at home all the time, but every time I tried to go anywhere, it was too exhausting and stressful. This will mean so much to so many parents. I hope you have the ability to take elevator status into consideration when proposing a route, much like you do with weekend service changes, for example? Thanks, HopStop, for making the MTA so much more usable. Don't know what I would have done without you these past five years, and now you've proven, once again, how indispensable you are. Any chance you could take over the MTA and run it?
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heatherlynn.stevenson Thanks so much! We're really thrilled to be able to offer this service and at the response we've gotten. That's a great suggestion about taking elevator status into account, I'll pass it on to the team and see what we can do. Thanks again for your kind words! :)
A very helpful post. Thanks so much.
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