Women-only 'pink taxis' introduced in Melbourne

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'A taxi company in Australia plans to introduce "pink taxis' which will be driven by women and only available to female passengers, saying women feel less safe with male drivers.

The company behind the scheme, Taxi Link, said it was concerned a the series of night-time sexual assaults and believed some women felt uncomfortable in taxis, which are predominantly driven by men. The scheme will allow women to request a female driver when booking a cab.
"From a safety point of view, I think women feel more at ease with women," the company's director, Harry Katsiabanis, told The Herald Sun.

"We are trying to create a more comfortable environment, an environment that will be more readily used than the current one."
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"I think women are more caring and I think that they've got a more gentle demeanour than most men, so I think they'll cope well [with] the stress and pressures of traffic in Melbourne," he said.

A Melbourne veterinary nurse, Brook Trott, 18, said she would be more comfortable catching one of the pink taxis.

"I would feel more safe if I was to get in a taxi with another girl, as a driver or just a passenger," she told The Age.'