Women- only taxi app deemed ‘ sexist’

A wo me n - o n l y t a x i a p p designed to make female passengers f eel safe has been thwarted by licensing chiefs for excluding men.

Glasgow City Council threw out Margo Welsh’s proposal to start Rosy and Pink Cars, offering female drivers to female passengers and their children.

It was an idea she came up with after seeing “the amount of sex attacks in this day and age”, and she said: “There’s definitely a need for this. Loads of taxi companies are pre - dominately male. It’s another option for women.”

Councillors dismissed her plan as “sexism” against men. Licensing convener Alex Wilson said: “If it was the other way round we would be looking at discrimination against females. The whole not picking up male passengers is a concern to me. I don’t think we should discriminate at all.”

Councillor Robert Connelly added: “It is essentially sexism towards males. It doesn’t sit right with me.”

The committee has been branded “inappropriate” by Ms Welsh’s lawyer Stephen Mccaffrey, who s aid “The hearing was the most hostile and dismissive I have ever been before.”