The need to be safe is common for all people using public spaces and there is general feeling that staff and security guards have an important role to play in this. Young women expressed a desire for these areas to be more exciting and also a need for other alternative free, fun venues to socialise in besides the train stations, bus interchanges and shopping malls.
Phones are very useful to make contact and to ward off pursuers.
Train guards don't step in when they witness harassment, and sometimes even contribute to girls feeling unsafe by their rudeness. Some ideas for improvement from young women. The space needs to be less barren, more trees and a greater people presence. Cameras are no good - no one would get to the trouble in time. It all happens so quickly.