{"id":587908,"date":"2025-11-23T02:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587908\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:31:13","slug":"thousands-back-london-underground-change-inspired-by-japan-and-mexico-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587908\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands back London Underground change inspired by Japan and Mexico | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of people have asked Transport for London<\/a> to introduce a change on the Underground that is already in place in other countries. Tokyo and Mexico City have both already introduced the measure to keep women safe on public transport.<\/p>\n

Around 12,000 people have already signed a petition calling for women-only Tube carriages to be introduced on the London Underground. Camille, a 21-year-old student who grew up in London, started the petition<\/a> because she feels that \u201cpublic harassment of women on the London Underground is a growing issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her petition added: \u201cTfL\u2019s approach is failing – we always see it, we do say it, but it\u2019s still not sorted. That\u2019s why I\u2019m calling for Sadiq Khan to introduce women-only carriages.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was spurred on by her own experiences and those of her fellow female friends on the London Underground.<\/p>\n

Camille recounts being asked to spend the day with a man while on the Circle Line in a school uniform at 13 years old. She added: \u201cIt was not a rare occurrence for girls at my school to arrive in tears from having experienced or witnessed something traumatising on the Underground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her petition calls on TfL to assign certain carriages as women-only, with clear signage in both trains and platforms to direct women to dedicated spaces. This has already been seen in other cities across the world.<\/p>\n

In Tokyo, women-only train carriages are available during rush hours. These are also open to boys of elementary school age and younger, and disabled passengers. Mexico City, which struggles with gender-based violence, also introduced women-only metro carriages in 2002.<\/p>\n

Reported sexual offences have risen year on year by more than 10% on Tubes, trains and buses across the capital, as per the BBC<\/a>. A 2023 survey <\/a>by the British Transport Police suggested that over a third of women have been a victim of sexual harassment or offences while commuting by train or Tube.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Transport for London has stated that it does not believe segregating travellers by gender on the Underground is the solution.<\/p>\n

Siwan Hayward, TfL\u2019s Director of Security, Policing and Enforcement, said: \u201cEveryone should feel and be safe when travelling across the network, but isolating women is not the answer to tackling sexual offences.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not support any proposal for female-only train carriages on TfL services, but instead are working closely with the police to ensure our capital\u2019s transport network is a hostile place for offenders, including the use of intelligence-led policing operations to target offenders and hotspot locations.<\/p>\n

“Women and girls should feel able to come forward and report any incident, confident that they will be taken seriously and that action will be taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s why we have been working with the British Transport Police over many years to raise awareness of this issue, to help customers feel more empowered to report this behaviour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we anticipated and welcome increased reporting, any incidence of sexual harassment is utterly unacceptable and we are working hard to stamp it out on our network.<\/p>\n

“We encourage anyone who experiences or witnesses this behaviour to report it to the police or a member of staff, so that we can take action\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of people have asked Transport for London to introduce a change on the Underground that is already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[594,12,185279,7857,67739,16,15,185278],"class_list":{"0":"post-587908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-london-underground","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-public-harassment","12":"tag-trains","13":"tag-transport-for-london-tfl","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-women-only-carriages"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115596668716968384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}