© Photo: Maria Novoselova / Vestnik Kavkaza
In Batumi, a woman sat behind the wheel of a bus for the first time. Previously, the team of city transport drivers was exclusively presented by men.
A woman joined the exclusively men team of drivers in the Batumi bus fleet. Lia Beridze, the first woman bus-driver in Batumi, is already on a shift.
"I hope that the precedent of employing a female driver will become a motivation for other women as well,”
– Mayor of Batumi Archil Chikovani said.
According to Lia herself, she dreamed of driving a bus since childhood.
The mayor's office noted that women drivers are a rarity in Georgia: several women work as bus drivers in Tbilisi, and Batumi for the first time employs a woman bus-driver.
