2025年2月22日 · Bus approach harassment encompasses a range of behaviors. These can include verbal harassment, physical intimidation, and other forms of unwelcome conduct. Often, it targets individuals based on gender, race, or appearance, creating a hostile environment.

2023年1月17日 · Riding transit often generates conditions that offer opportunities for harassment. An overcrowded bus, for example, offers ample opportunities for groping by providing both proximity and anonymity. Conversely, the absence of crowds at dark and desolate bus stops makes it easier for a perpetrator to expose himself to a sole rider waiting for a ...

hubs, trains and bus stations as prime locations for harassment. In five cities (Delhi, Kampala, Lima, Madrid and Syndey), young women and girls can use geolocating to drop a "good" pin on locations where they feel safe and a "bad" pin where they feel unsafe.

Below we share promising practices from Washington DC, Philadelphia, Louisville, Boston, London, and Jakarta. Each of these cities has identified harassment and assault on public transit as a key concern and has worked with local advocates to improve rider safety.

2014年9月8日 · These are everyday experiences for millions of women who use public transportation in Latin America, where sexual harassment is a major problem, in some cases affecting more than half of female bus or subway users.

2024年1月1日 · Severe forms of harassment, such as public masturbation or rape, primarily occurred on the journey to and from public transport (8.6%) and on board a bus (7.4%). In all cases, females are the most affected.

2014年7月3日 · We talked to Emily May, founder of Hollaback!, about why sexual harassment is so widespread on public transit, and what we can do to end it.

2023年10月11日 · I was being harassed by a weird guy on a bus headed to Walgreens. Thankfully, the people sitting near me immediately interrupted him when he was asking me creepy questions and changed the subject. If you see someone getting harassed, and it is safe to do so .

2011年5月31日 · They’re part of a campaign against sexual harassment on the buses of Colombia’s capital Bogota, set up by a group of women who’ve had enough of wandering hands and offensive sexual comments. “During rush hour, when the buses are packed, the male passengers take the opportunity to stand close to women and feel them up,” says Marisol ...

2008年9月25日 · Of the bus drivers observing sexual harassment, almost 80% intervened and confronted the students' inappropriate behavior. About half (46%) of the bus drivers reported incidents of sexual harassment to an authority figure in the school, most commonly a principal or assistant principal.