More than one hundred people have signed a petition calling for President Barack Obama to declare the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority a federal disaster area. Doing so, the petition states, “would open funding and resources to fix this neglected transit system.”

Published on WhiteHouse.gov on Friday, February 20, the petition, as of this writing, has secured 101 signatures. Another 99,899 signatures are needed by March 22, 2015 for the petition to reach its 100,000 goal.

Purportedly created by a Mansfield resident with the initial’s P.V., the petition has thus far been signed by (apparent) residents of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. Other signees claim to hail from Biddeford, Maine, Indianapolis and Chicago.

The petition to the White House isn’t the only money-seeking effort to launch on the T’s behalf this winter.

Transportation for Massachusetts’s petition – “to let [Governor Charlie Baker] and Massachusetts State Legislature know that [residents] need reliable public transportation, roads and sidewalks” – has received 8,322 signatures.

Then there’s “Modernizing Boston’s Transit,” a Charlestown man’s GoFundMe campaign to raise $30 billion for the T. Despite its not-so-serious nature, the GoFundMe campaign has managed to bank nearly $1,600 since the start of February.

Screengrab via Petitions.WhiteHouse.gov.