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Transportation is a Women’s Issue I

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND #METOO

Struggling to reach for a strap on a crowded bus. Stepping into a packed train car and looking for a small space of refuge. Waiting by yourself at a dark bus stop. Trying to run household serving errands on a public transit schedule that’s been designed for rush hour. These all-too-common experiences demonstrate why we must think about transportation as a women’s issue. In the first of our three-part series, Professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and ITS associate director Madeline Brozen conducted a lunchtime discussion about women’s transportation needs, how transit agencies are and are not meeting these needs, and the role of sexual harassment in public space and public transit.

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