This sounds like an excuse for the NYPD to write lots of tickets, knowing most folks will pay rather than lose a day's pay to go to court and contest the fine.

In other words this has NOTHING to do with the handicapped - it's all about the REVENUE !!!!!

I can guarantee you that the number of tickets actually written for this will not exceed the cost of the signage. It is virtually impossible to enforce, and nobody is going to be riding the subway to enforce it.

This must be a stupid joke to everyone who ever rides a MTA bus. The driver is just a three feet away as mothers seat their hyper brats in the handicapped seats. Being 75 and carrying groceries is a handicap, not being 6 years-old .

Yeah, I don't know what's up with these parents thinking their children are entitled to a seat. I see more parents letting their children push onto the subway and grab a seat. My mother would have whipped my ass if I did that. My revenge is that I stand over the child, pull out a chocolate bar and start eating it in front of them. Vengeance is a sweet, delicious chocolate bar.

Little enough to ride for free, little enough to ride on your knee.

They can have my seat if they'll get up and walk, walk in the name of Jeezus! Hallelujah!

When giant green featureless people offer you a seat, you better take that seat.

i enjoy standing up on the subway. every day is a new adventure.

united we stand.

A friend of mine was once shoved so hard when getting on the subway in Brooklyn that she fell to the floor. She was 7 months pregnant at the time.

The pusher -- a middle-aged Polish guy -- stepped over her to get to a seat.

How's that for courtesy, folks?

Personally, I always give up my seat to pregnant ladies and people with small (non-stroller) children. However, it is easy to get caught up in your own little world and not necessarily notice if someone is pregnant, even if she is right in front of you.

I recently got on a rush-hour uptown D and there were two women with strollers which were positioned so that they were blocking the whole aisle from one side to the other. While struggling to get past, I brushed one of the strollers... and that just set the woman off. She kept bitching about me touching her stroller until finally I snapped and said, "IT'S RUSH HOUR, YOU FOOL!" but obviously that didn't make much of an impression on her since she was clearly an idiot to begin with...

I saw some fat f*ck push a pregnant woman aside earlier this week in order to beat her to the open seat. Stupid f*cker.

Also, I think the bigger problem is unless they walk funny or have no legs we can't recognize disabled people. Maybe if they had big electronic pins on their lapels that flashed "I'm a cripple!" and also say it in a electronic voice alarm then it'd be a lot easier for everyone. It worked with the jews in germany with the star of david.

Obese people are really easy to recognize. Some call it a disability. Like, I'm soooo fat!! I need to sit down now! I don't give a shit if my thighs ooze out over the the people next to me rendering them unable to exit in the case of an emergency. I'm going tho pretend that I don't feel them under the crushing weight of my thunderous thighs.

That said, we need a fat section. If you're super fat, go sit over there in the fat section on top of the other fat people, not on my fucking lap.

My, aren't we fatophobic?

I'm sure your anger at fat people is merely your own body images, anorexia and disordered eating directed outwards - the same rage and loathing you direct outwards in your post is what you feel every morning when you look in the mirror... you see your body as hideous and you find a million and one "flaws" in it.

Ever considered therapy?

Or OA?

Take a look at what I'm responding to. It's a joke...relax.

I've never seen that many disabled/handicapped people in the subway before and if I ever see one in a blue moon they definitely always get a seat. Old people usually get a seat and pregnant ladies too. The one's I'm pissed off about are perfectly healthy women who think just cause they pee sitting down they deserve a seat. Hell No!

I have Crohn's. If I stand up I'll shit myself. That's not true (well, the shitting myself part, anyway) but it'll be what I say.

"So basically anyone can ask for a seat with the threat of a fine on their side."

The rule only applies to designated and marked "priority seating." If you don't want to have to give up your seat, don't use those.

yeah I work for 12.5 hours on my feet and feel fucking disabled after work...you can't have my seat.

My disability is lazy ass. I need to sit down because I'm a lazy ass.

If I didn't knock you up, you're not getting my seat.