Are security concerns restricting women's transport choices?

Concerns about personal security could be turning many women away from public transport and other ‘sustainable’ modes, and fostering a cultural assumption that young women need cars more than their male peers.

Rhodri Clark

05 August 2016

Severn Tunnel Junction station: Designers of the station`s new footbridge failed to consider the security of lone women, says one local resident

Bridgend bus station – bright and welcoming during the day, the station is no longer staffed in the evenings and is regarded by some as an unsuitable place for lone women to wait

made the decision last year that her stepdaughter Lani would become a fully-fledged motorist. Lani turned 17 during the year. At the time of writing, she’s preparing for her driving test, after which she’ll have her stepmother’s old car for herself. If Summers-Rees had a stepson instead of a stepdaughter, he wouldn’t be having driving lessons. “I probably would be more happy for him to come back home on the train and bus late at night,” she says,...