Letter to MBTA Announcing No Man-Sitting Campaign

Daniel Grabauskas, General Manager, MBTA
10 Park Plaza, Suite 5610
Boston MA 02116
dgrabauskas@mbta.com 

 

Re: MBTA Courtesy Button 



Dear Mr. Grabauskas, 

We've designed a badge for public transportation customers to wear in order to encourage passenger civility. We hope to raise awareness of fellow passenger's comfort with this visual reminder.

Often, we believe, some T-riders aren't aware that they're taking up three seats with their knees. Of course, there are many other discourteous behaviors, like occupying additional seats with your belongings, but the particular posture depicted on our button is the most commonly complained about offense found in our survey of T- passengers.

We hope you will adopt this button to display or distribute as a way of encouraging courtesy among your riders. If you contact us we will provide you with some of these buttons for your use.

Sincerely,

Betsy Warrior, Amelia Sabadina, Karen Schneiderman
AboutWomen Project
Cambridge, MA
617-492-5630