Pink Bus Service – Launch of female-only buses in Lahore good idea or a bad one?

Pink Bus Service – Launch of female-only buses in Lahore good idea or a bad one?

A local transport company has recently launched a female-only bus service in Lahore, which is known as Pink Bus Service. The service was launched last Thursday and it was inaugurated by MNA Hamza Shahbaz Sharif. Currently only three buses have been launched in the Lahore city, which would run from 6.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. but the point is whether if launching this service is a good idea or a bad one?

Muhammad Dastgir Baloch, who is the chief operating officer, told the media this service has been made to offer women harassment-free travel, which is certainly true to some extent, but on the other hand this service can also make the females an easy target for the people who always remain on a look-out for them.

Mr. Bloch stated if the service gets successful they will dedicate 20 percent of the buses for women, which means that there will be quite a number of them on the roads.

“It was the first day so most people didn’t know about it,” he said. “We could dedicate 20 per cent of our buses for women,” he said.

We all know mindset of the people here in Pakistan. They always spare time to follow ladies and they will certainly start doing it more with the launch of this service. We normally see many students, who like standing outside the female colleges and I guess they all will start following these buses, once they get on the roads in a proper way.

Whenever a pink bus will be seen everyone out there will easily get to know that it is a bus full of females and this thing can make them do anything for example they can throw in their numbers or they can pass on any comment.

However, in spite of all these facts this service should be a good one for the female because people harass them otherwise as well and now only a few will dare to do anything stupid when there will be a lot of them.

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Posted by Imran Shaukat Khan on Jan 11 2012. Filed under Opinion, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.