Train Passengers Demand Women-only Cars to be Repositioned
26 September 2015 20:52 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Passengers of electric train demanded train operator KAI Commuter Jabodetabek (KJC) to place women-only cars in the middle of a train, following a recent train collision at the Juanda Station in Jakarta on Wednesday, September 23, 2015.
“It will be better,” Ety, 23, a passenger said on Saturday, September 26, 2015, at the Cikini Station in Central Jakarta.
According to Ety, women will be safer if the cars are positioned in the middle of a train. Nadia, a 19-year-old student, echoed Ety’s suggestion to move women-only cars in the middle of a train.
“It’s very risky. If there was an accident, women would be impacted first,” Nadia said.
KJC director M. Fadhillah denied a rumor saying that women-only cars would be repositioned in the middle of a commuter line train. Currently, women-only cars are positioned at the front or the back of a train.
“To this date, there is no plan to move women-only cars to the middle of the train,” Fadhillah said in a press conference on Thursday, September 24, 2015.
Fadhillah argued that the decision to put women-only cars at the front and the back of a train was to ease elderly and pregnant women in getting on or off the train.
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