TRANSPORT: Women afraid to travel by train
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Your support makes all the difference.Women should be free from fear when travelling by train and more should be done to make journeys safer for them, according to a report published yesterday. Women wanted to know that help was at hand from well- trained and visible staff, the report added.
Poor carriage layout, doors and windows not opening, and badly designed overhead racks were just some of the problems cited.
The report - by the south-east England section of the working women's group Soroptimist International - calls for measures to make the communication cord easier to reach on certain trains, emergency help points on every station, better public information and better carriage design.
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