Ok, wait.... I realize that maybe this is the typical latino way of solving things... and I agree it's better than nothing.. I guess, BUT... It makes no sense!.. how is the solution to stopping a perv from grabbing a woman's ass, to put WOMEN in a different bus??!! Wouldn't it make more sense to put these guys in JAIL! That's like saying: "ok, lets have a bus for children ONLY, so pedophiles won't molest them"
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I think this is a great Idea!!! Se tardaron mucho en implementar esto...
I remember back in the day, when I was 12 and still lived in Mexico, I saw this happened all the time.... guys getting to close and pinching girl's butt.... and touching them with their wee wee's.... I hated it.
Someone did it to me once... I was 13, and my aunt was with me... apparently it happened to her all the time, she looked at me and with her eyes she said everything.... she moved where I was sitting and he started doing it to her.... after about five minutes he screamed, apparently my aunt had a needle and poke him there with it.... everyone in the bus started laughing and everyone pushed him out off the bus....
This abuse happens everyday in Mexico.... I am glad this was finally dealt with.
Mexico City has started a women-only bus service to protect female passengers from groping and verbal abuse common on the city's packed public transportation system.
Millions of people cram into subway trains and buses in the Mexican capital, one of the world's largest cities, and women have long complained of abuse from men taking advantage of overcrowding to sneak in an inappropriate grab.
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One time a man stuck his hand up my skirt. They grab your butt ... It's gross, said 27-year-old office assistant Lourdes Zendejas, who waited 20 minutes during the evening rush hour to catch one of the new buses.
The special buses pull up at ordinary stops but have large pink women only signs on the front and side. They were added to two busy routes last week and the city government plans to expand the program to 15 other routes by April.
Mexico City's transport system, which also includes hundreds of privately operated micro buses, carries twice as many riders as New York's.
We were constantly receiving complaints of women being leered at, kissed or followed, said Carlos Cervantes, spokesman for the city's public bus system.
Mexico City already had reserved the first three cars in subway trains for women and children but this is the first time the model has been tried in buses.
Women using the new service Monday had space to sit down and giggled as the driver turned away men at the door.
This is wonderful. Men never give up their seat for us old people, no one is a gentleman, said 73-year-old Beatriz Perez, whose bulging shopping bags were tucked under her seat.
But not everyone was convinced that having only women would make the ride more pleasant.
Women can be aggressive too, said telephone operator Rosa Maria Vargas, 42, traveling with her 9-year-old son. When it gets really crowded, I've been pushed and punched before by men and women.
(Editing by Catherine Bremer and John O'Callaghan)
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