Male train drivers decide to wear skirts
Published: 2013 June 08 21:41:46 (5046 Views)
A group of Swedish train drivers have refused to hide their legs this summer, wearing skirts to get around a ban on shorts.
Rail operator Arriva ordered the ban, despite claims from one worker that cab temperatures can hit 35C when the sun is shining.
Spokesman Thomas Hedenius said staff should look "stylish and neat" but admitted the company could not prevent men wearing skirts to keep cool.
"To say anything else would be discrimination," he told local newspaper Mitti.
Martin Akersten, one of 13 drivers who decided to don skirts after failing to have the ban lifted last year, said: "Of course people stare at you a little when you are on the platform but you just have to put up with it."
The shorts ban affects the Roslagsbanan line - a narrow, 35-mile track linking 38 stations near Stockholm.
The line, which carries around 47,000 passengers every day, was first used in 1885.
Mr Hedenius said Arriva would be discussing its uniform with staff in September.
- SkyNews
Rail operator Arriva ordered the ban, despite claims from one worker that cab temperatures can hit 35C when the sun is shining.
Spokesman Thomas Hedenius said staff should look "stylish and neat" but admitted the company could not prevent men wearing skirts to keep cool.
"To say anything else would be discrimination," he told local newspaper Mitti.
Martin Akersten, one of 13 drivers who decided to don skirts after failing to have the ban lifted last year, said: "Of course people stare at you a little when you are on the platform but you just have to put up with it."
The shorts ban affects the Roslagsbanan line - a narrow, 35-mile track linking 38 stations near Stockholm.
The line, which carries around 47,000 passengers every day, was first used in 1885.
Mr Hedenius said Arriva would be discussing its uniform with staff in September.
- SkyNews
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