Public Transit Awareness Month
Photo by laffy4k via flickr Today is the start of Public Transit Awareness Month here at HBDC!, which seems even more fitting with 10 cent metro fare price increase that took effect yesterday....
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Photo by takomabibelot via flickr Since our first post last March we’ve received more than 200 experiences from individuals across the DC Metro area. We knew that many of the incidents occurred on...
View ArticleThree Ways to Report Sexual Harassment and Assault to WMATA
Photo by mymetrostop via flickr While we know that WMATA doesn’t always responded well to sexual harassment and assault reports, we do believe that it is important to report incidents and file...
View ArticleThree Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaigns that Work
Last week we discussed the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault on WMATA. Today for our Public Transit Awareness Month, we look at what other cities are doing to address the problem on their...
View ArticleAccounting for Women
Photo by Poldavo (Alex) via flickr Surprise! Women often feel unsafe while taking public transportation and even change their routes to avoid the spaces they fear. In her latest study, Anastasia...
View ArticleRecapping Public Transit Awarness Month
Photo by frozenchipmunk via flickr Since today is the last day of March, we want to recap what we learned over the last month during Public Transit Awareness Month here at Holla Back DC! We crunched...
View ArticleThis is Absurd
It’s not every day that our hunches end up on the front page of the Washington Post. Color us shocked when we read the headlines “News of Metro Rapes Delayed.” Wait, weren’t we just campaigning for...
View ArticleThree Ways to Report to WMATA
Photo by mymetrostop via flickr We posted this last year but in the spirit of Public Transit Awareness Month, we though we should re-post information about the different ways you can report an incident...
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