NYC Subway’s ‘Courtesy’ Campaign Against Manspreading

‘Dude, stop the spread!’ The New York Subway adverts that will bid to tackle the scourge of ‘manspreading’

• Posters are aimed at men who spread their legs and hog space on trains 
• Campaign will carry slogan: Courtesy Counts: Manners Make a Better Ride 
• More customers than ever are crowding onto New York underground trains 
• As many as 6.1 million riders were used the Subway on a single day in 2014 

 If you ever commuted to work, you'll enjoy reading Anthony Buccino's latest collection "This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter" about the joys and follies of getting to and from work in the city using metropolitan public transit. 

 This Seat Taken - Notes of a Hapless Commuter by Anthony Buccino

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A Commuter Tale (From Home)

BY ANTHONY BUCCINO

“Left a good job in the city … la-di-da-dah.” 

I wonder if Fogerty had to wait ten minutes for a bus, take a 45-minute ride – on a good day – and then walk uptown for about 15 minutes from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan dodging hundreds of early-rising tourists looking for the line in the skyline in Times Square from W. 42nd Street to W. 48th Street and Avenue of the Americas?

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This Seat Taken? Notes of a hapless commuter, by Anthony Buccino