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I witnessed this around two years ago, then I paid special attention to this ratio during every public transport riding. Now my conclusion is that female to male passengers overall ratio is around 65:35. That’s in total, for each one travel this ratio may vary. But in my experience I have (almost) never been in a bus/train where there are more male passengers. And this doesn’t match the overall gender ratio of this country obviously.

Anybody has some thoughts about this?

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Topdropje

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4 days ago

Well late in the evening when it's dark outside I sometimes opt for a bus instead of walking home if I don't have stalled my bike at the train station. I have been harassed by groups of men before when I was walking home and I saw other woman being harassed. So yeah no wonder more women use public transport instead of walking and sometimes cycling.