Bus for women

Bus for women

From Neraca

Traveling in the city by public bus -- either Metromini, Kopaja, limited passenger bus, or air-conditioned bus -- is not very comfortable because, more often than not, the buses are exceptionally crowded. Worse still, as there as male and female passengers on the same bus female passengers must tolerate slight harassment by some male passengers who do it just for fun.

I often see female passengers having to move to get away from being tightly sandwiched between males. To improve the condition, I would like to suggest to the Jakarta Metropolitan Administration to consider operating special buses for women. Perhaps, the bus crews could also be women, as in Bangladesh. I believe women passengers would find it more convenient and secure to be among just women in a bus.

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