Women and Transit (w/ Nidhi Gulati) - a podcast by Third Wave Urbanism

Riding public transportation while female is an experience in and of itself, and often presents challenges that are not considered in transportation planning. Around the world, our experiences may differ depending on the level of acceptance of being a woman in a public space - but the bottom line is that comfort for everyone needs to be the priority in order to increase riders of public transportation.

In this episode we talk with Nidhi Gulati of the Livable Streets Alliance in Boston, Massachusetts, who talks about her experiences on public transit in her native India. Join us as we discuss tactics for avoiding unwanted male attention, women-only sections of subways (and whether it's a good idea), and what a flaneur is anyway.

Nidhi Gulati can be found at @gulatinidhi on Twitter, and you can learn more about the Livable Streets Alliance projects on their site: http://www.livablestreets.info/

And as always you can find us on Twitter @thirdwaveurban.

Here are some of the articles we used as reference in this episode:

Kristen’s recent blog post on transit in Washington DC:
http://theblackurbanist.com/what-we-need-is-more-not-less-transit-in-our-major-cities/

Guardian Cities - Female Flaneurs
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/29/female-flaneur-women-reclaim-streets?CMP=fb_a-cities_b-gdncities

Cities in Transition - Women in the City and public space
https://citiesintransition.eu/cityreport/women-in-the-city-2

NPR - Women’s-only car in Delhi
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/04/472997605/why-i-love-riding-on-the-women-only-car-on-delhis-metro

Germany - women/children only cars
http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/03/28/german-trains-to-offer-women-and-children-only-cars/

CityLab - San Francisco asking for transit input
http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/08/san-francisco-wants-you-to-design-its-future-transit-system/496583/?utm_source=nl__link3_081916

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