From your 280 survey responses, we found that 67% of you almost never feel safe taking public transit late at night. Your input was invaluable in helping us make the case for bringing RightRides to DC. As a reminder, here’s what else you said in our May 2013 survey about personal safety and public transportation […]
Location: Ft. Totten & Green Line (Metro) Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) This occurred about a year ago, but I do want to give credit to good Metro employees. A young man got on my green line train at Ft Totten. He started aggressively flirting with/harassing the young women on the train (sitting very close, talking dirty). […]
Location: Rhode Island Avenue Metro Station Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Street harassment of any kind is a daily experience for me, but this incident that happened a few weeks ago was particularly disturbing. I was walking by the Rhode Island Avenue metro station when a man, probably a teenager or in his early 20s, asked if […]
After moving to DC, I learned how some men perceived the Metro as unspoken hyper-masculine “male space,” where their language, tone, word choice, and space dominate the geography of those train cars. By Courtney Brooks When we moved to the DC area last year I confess I was looking forward to partaking in the tour-book version […]
Location: Georgia ave & Dennis ave, Maryland, Q4 Bus Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) On a very, very crowded bus a young man about 20 years old leaned up against the seat I was sitting in. He was so far up on my seat with his backside that I tried to push him off. He didn’t budge. […]