Railways: Gender Based Violence
Commons · Question 22274 · Tabled 7 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Kirsty Blackman
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of lighting on trains on the levels of violence against women and girls travelling on the network.
Answer
Answered by Simon Lightwood, 15 Jan 2025
The National Travel Attitudes Survey on perceptions of safety when walking, cycling and using public transport, found that a ‘poorly lit vehicle or carriage’ was the joint seventh most popular reason for feeling unsafe when travelling on a public transpor...