https://paultan.org/2023/09/06/mrt-kajang-line-trains-getting-womens-coach-sep-17/
Click to enlarge Trains on the MRT Kajang Line are getting a women’s coach, which as its name suggests, is reserved for women – men are not allowed. Rapid KL says that sticker installation and …
MoT should use a data-driven approach (harassment reports etc.) to explain the need to test out a women's coach in the first place.
I would like to agree but considering gendered harassment is historically underreported it just becomes a bean counting measure to not actually provide remedy (of which I think this one should be temporary but the fact that it's being implemented is absolutely an indictment of both society and how little they think of men that they can't believe men cannot self police themselves or how disinterested they are to change norms that encourages this to happen, especially if this fits into their worldview that men and women must be segregated).
I just wish they could have brought back intervals to 3.5 mins before implementing the women's coach