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Wed, Oct 13, 2010
The New Paper
Ladyboys soliciting at Jurong West bus stop
A transvestite sex worker approaching the driver of a car.
Several transvestite sex workers loitering around a bus stop outside Block 490 Jurong West Ave 1.
Seven of such sex workers have been using the area around the block as their "base".
While the sex workers prowl under Block 490, one man (seated at the ground floor) acts as a look out.
Some of the familiar trash left by transvestites and their lookout. Neighbours say the trash piles up with beer bottles, leftover packet food and used tissue paper in bushes at a canal nearby.
Photos: TNP
IT WAS past midnight, and some people were busy putting up decorations for a void-deck Malay wedding.
Across the road, tired factory workers shuffled out of company buses to walk home to their flats.
And from somewhere not too far off, cheering could be heard from coffee shop patrons watching a football telecast.
All of which may be typical of HDB estates.
What is unusual in this Jurong West Avenue 1 neighbourhood is the presence of a group of transvestite sex workers.
Seven of them have used Block 490 as their "base".
A bus stop in front of the block has been turned into a "pick up" point, where local men stop their cars and take the sex workers to secluded spots.
From Sunday to Wednesday last week, this reporter noticed that taxis would drop the group off at the bus stop around 11pm.
They would remain there till about 5am.
After midnight, drivers would stop at the bus stop and pick up passengers. They would return roughly 30 minutes later with the transvestites.
The transvestites wait at the bus stop for drivers to pull up. Then, they would step up to the cars and talk to the drivers.
A man, acting as a lookout, waits at the block behind the bus stop. The transvestites occasionally go over and talk to him.
When I drove to the bus stop, I was immediately greeted by a sex worker, who stepped up to the car window.
Dressed in a low-cut dress, he was heavily made up and wore a wig of long hair with highlights. He also had a tattoo on his left shoulder.
"It's $30, but we have to drive to a quieter spot," said the transvestite in a deep voice.
He said there was a dark heavy vehicles park near Block 474. Clients without cars would be led to a park nearby, he said.
Sometimes, the transvestites "parade" on the opposite side of the road and wave at passing cars.
Residents who have been putting up with these sex workers for two years are fed up.
One resident who wanted to be known only as Mr Rajan called their behaviour disgusting.
He recalled an incident a year ago when he had returned home late.
"I had alighted (at the bus stop) and one of them gave me a funny look," said Mr Rajan, who lives in Block 490 with his wife and son.
"Almost immediately, she (the transvestite) tried to hug me. What if my wife had seen the transvestite hugging me? Surely, I will have a lot of explaining to do."
Now, Mr Rajan, 41, a marine industry worker, takes a detour whenever he spots the sex workers.
If they try to approach him, Mr Rajan said he "will run away".
A jogger, Mr Philip Lee, 27, is also disgusted by what is happening.
He said he has stopped his midnight runs along a park connector near Block 490.
Wed, Oct 13, 2010
The New Paper
Ladyboys soliciting at Jurong West bus stop
A transvestite sex worker approaching the driver of a car.
Several transvestite sex workers loitering around a bus stop outside Block 490 Jurong West Ave 1.
Seven of such sex workers have been using the area around the block as their "base".
While the sex workers prowl under Block 490, one man (seated at the ground floor) acts as a look out.
Some of the familiar trash left by transvestites and their lookout. Neighbours say the trash piles up with beer bottles, leftover packet food and used tissue paper in bushes at a canal nearby.
Photos: TNP
IT WAS past midnight, and some people were busy putting up decorations for a void-deck Malay wedding.
Across the road, tired factory workers shuffled out of company buses to walk home to their flats.
And from somewhere not too far off, cheering could be heard from coffee shop patrons watching a football telecast.
All of which may be typical of HDB estates.
What is unusual in this Jurong West Avenue 1 neighbourhood is the presence of a group of transvestite sex workers.
Seven of them have used Block 490 as their "base".
A bus stop in front of the block has been turned into a "pick up" point, where local men stop their cars and take the sex workers to secluded spots.
From Sunday to Wednesday last week, this reporter noticed that taxis would drop the group off at the bus stop around 11pm.
They would remain there till about 5am.
After midnight, drivers would stop at the bus stop and pick up passengers. They would return roughly 30 minutes later with the transvestites.
The transvestites wait at the bus stop for drivers to pull up. Then, they would step up to the cars and talk to the drivers.
A man, acting as a lookout, waits at the block behind the bus stop. The transvestites occasionally go over and talk to him.
When I drove to the bus stop, I was immediately greeted by a sex worker, who stepped up to the car window.
Dressed in a low-cut dress, he was heavily made up and wore a wig of long hair with highlights. He also had a tattoo on his left shoulder.
"It's $30, but we have to drive to a quieter spot," said the transvestite in a deep voice.
He said there was a dark heavy vehicles park near Block 474. Clients without cars would be led to a park nearby, he said.
Sometimes, the transvestites "parade" on the opposite side of the road and wave at passing cars.
Residents who have been putting up with these sex workers for two years are fed up.
One resident who wanted to be known only as Mr Rajan called their behaviour disgusting.
He recalled an incident a year ago when he had returned home late.
"I had alighted (at the bus stop) and one of them gave me a funny look," said Mr Rajan, who lives in Block 490 with his wife and son.
"Almost immediately, she (the transvestite) tried to hug me. What if my wife had seen the transvestite hugging me? Surely, I will have a lot of explaining to do."
Now, Mr Rajan, 41, a marine industry worker, takes a detour whenever he spots the sex workers.
If they try to approach him, Mr Rajan said he "will run away".
A jogger, Mr Philip Lee, 27, is also disgusted by what is happening.
He said he has stopped his midnight runs along a park connector near Block 490.
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