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Stop 'Spreading' Bad Manners On Public Transit

caption: 'Manspreading' on the New York City subway.
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'Manspreading' on the New York City subway.
Flickr Photo/ Susan Sermoneta (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Men who ride the New York City subway will soon be seeing signs asking them to "stop the spread." As in: Stop spreading your legs so wide when you sit down on the subway, dude. You’re taking up way too much space.

It's part of a campaign that goes after all kinds of rude behavior on public transit. Jeannie Yandel asked Sound Transit spokesman Bruce Gray whether we face a similar problem in the Puget Sound region.

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