The former Minister of Transport and Telecommunications during the second administration of former President Bachelet, Paola Tapia, referred to the measure that seeks to segregate the cars in the Metro in order to reduce the cases of harassment within public transport, which have risen considerably in the last moment.
in conversation with The Counter at La ClaveTapia recalled that during 2017, she promoted the first gender policy for transportation in Latin America, where the gender perspective was addressed for the first time.
“It is important to note that in 2017 we worked throughout the year on the first transport gender policy, in fact, it was the first in Latin America in which the importance of looking at transport from a gender perspective was raised for the first time,” she said.
Given the rise in cases of harassment, the director of Metropolitan Public Transport indicated that they would launch a cross-cutting campaign against this problem.
“Our first job is to raise awareness and for that we are going to have this campaign. Second job, standardized protocols, that the driver knows how to act in a situation of harassment and third topic, training. It is very important that, from the Metro guard, the driver of the RED system know how to welcome and support the victims of situations of harassment”.
Regarding the possibility of segregating cars by gender within the Metro, Tapia stated that no measure can be ruled out at first, despite the fact that other countries in the world have promoted the same initiative without success in reducing cases.
“We are going to work on it, we must not rule out any measure a priori, but experience also tells us that in Mexico, where there are segregated wagons, they have not been entirely efficient in reducing the high figures,” he said.
“We do not rule it out, but we want to listen to the experts, we want to meet with them and also with the university students and women who have reported these cases to jointly take the actions to follow,” he concluded.
