I’m still having mixed feelings about the recent MRT policy of reserving the first car for women, disabled, children and the elderly. For one thing, I take the train every week and I’ve never actually seen anything that women commuters need protection from. Once I got an e-mail forward written by a woman who complained about a guy staring at her chest while on the MRT, but as I (1) didn’t know who she was and (2) wasn’t sure it wasn’t a hoax, I forgot all about it. That’s about it. (I know the LRT has had that policy for a while now, but I’ve only rode on that a couple of times, so I can’t comment about that.)
It’s not very flattering that the good people who run the MRT think that women need the same special consideration as people with disabilities, children and the elderly. After all, we can kick, scratch and run entire multi-national corporations. Read more
