--- title: Madrid Manspreading Banned by Transit Agency description: Madrid has banned "manspreading" on its public transportation. Signs will ask passengers not to take up spaces by spreading their legs canonical: https://time.com/4813645/madrid-bans-manspreading/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-10T13:09:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:53.041Z og:title: This City Just Banned ‘Manspreading’ og:description: Madrid's public transportation worked with other groups to enact the rule og:url: https://time.com/4813645/madrid-bans-manspreading/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This City Just Banned ‘Manspreading’ twitter:description: Madrid's public transportation worked with other groups to enact the rule twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This City Just Banned ‘Manspreading’ by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Jun 10, 2017 1:09 PM UTC by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Jun 10, 2017 1:09 PM UTC Madrid has banned “manspreading” on its public transportation. The city’s official news channel posted photos on Twitter of signs that will ask passengers not to take up spaces by spreading their legs. Madrid’s public transportation system, La Empresa Municipal de Transportes (EMT), announced the new rule Tuesday. EMT said it worked with the city’s gender and diversity policy group on the creation of the rule. In its announcement, EMT also noted that idea to ban manspreading came from a proposal made by the Madrid women and mothers group, Mujeres en Lucha y Madres Estresadas. A sign will ask passengers to be respectful of others’ space and will be posted along with other rules, including not putting feet on seats, using headphones and not smoking. > [](https://twitter.com/MADRID/status/872358938427183106) Madrid Manspreading Banned by Transit Agency ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4813645/madrid-bans-manspreading/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4813645/madrid-bans-manspreading/"},"headline":"This City Just Banned ‘Manspreading’","datePublished":"2017-06-10T13:09:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:53.041Z","description":"Madrid's public transportation worked with other groups to enact the rule","url":"https://time.com/4813645/madrid-bans-manspreading/","keywords":["Living","Transportation","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4813645/madrid-bans-manspreading/","name":"This City Just Banned ‘Manspreading’"}}]}] ```