Outreach
Transit Education Programs have a three-pronged approach to make a lasting impression on its audience.
Presentations
Saving Lives One Encounter at a Time
Site-Specific Presentations
In classrooms and auditoriums, the Transit Safety education team provides vivid, site-specific presentations, integrating photos and videos of nearby rail and Orange Line crossings. Referencing local stations and their geography, the education team introduces or reviews safety principles.Of course, school populations are constantly changing. New students arrive, students graduate, students move, so the Transit Safety education team frequently returns to the schools to reinforce or introduce the concepts of transit safety.
Metro Transit Safety partners with the following school districts to bring safety training to 1.5 million students each year:
- Compton
- Long Beach
- Los Angeles Unified
- Norwalk
- Pasadena
- South Pasadena
- Torrance
- Whittier
The Transit Safety education team also reaches out to audiences at senior centers, Head Start groups, and schools teaching English as a Second Language. By attending community events with Metro Experience, the Transit Safety group attracts neighbors and riders who may not belong to traditional organizations. Metro Experience is the only mobile safety training theatre in the country.
Schedule a Transit Safety education team member to visit your school, business, or organization.
The Transit Safety education team delivers a compelling safety message through state-of-the-art materials. Education team presentations strive to increase public awareness of the Metro Rail system and help residents of Los Angeles County how to live safely with this community asset.
Presentations include:
- Color photographs
- Videos of neighborhood streets and rail grade crossings, rail stations
- Maps of the Metro Rail system or the Metro Orange Line.
Award winning videos dramatize the consequences of unsafe or unlawful actions near Metro stations.
A question and answer period at the end of each presentation offers an opportunity for dialogue between the education team member and the audience. Speakers also share valuable information about Metro’s destinations and fares.
Presentations range from 20 to 45 minutes, depending on your group’s needs and size. Presentations can be conducted in small or large venues, such as auditoriums or cafeterias. Presenters adapt the interactive presentations to accommodate the age of their audience. Presentations are available in Spanish.
Metro Safety and New Rider Orientation Tours
Metro’s Transit Safety group leads safety and new rider orientation tours. Interested groups must call two weeks prior to the desired date of the safety tour. Tours are not provided to children under five. Schools must provide a minimum of one teacher/chaperone per ten students. All tour groups must meet at Metro headquarters at Union Station. Tours are conducted Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tours last approximately 90 minutes. For more information about safety/new rider orientation tours, please call 213.922.4050.
Following the safety/new rider orientation tour, participants may continue to use their tour badge for the remainder of the day on the Metro Bus or Metro Rail systems at no charge.
A mobile theater that travels to communities to offer life-saving safety messages in a fun and informative way. Videos play in the theater: an animated children’s video, a live action nationally acclaimed video, a safety video for the Orange Line and a new video of the Gold Line Eastside Extension. These safety presentations deliver lasting impressions about living safely around Metro’s light rail and Orange Line systems.