Stay RailSAFE – Pay Attention & Take Responsibility

As term 4 begins Canberra Metro Operations (CMET) would like to take this opportunity to provide some information and support to schools to promote rail safety to students. Our frontline staff are seeing escalating unsafe behaviours, particularly around key school stops of an afternoon, when large numbers of students are travelling together. Safety of all customers is our priority, and we are focussed on ensuring that all customers, particularly school students, keep off the tracks and remain behind the yellow line at all times.

There has recently been an increase of unsafe behaviour witnessed around the light rail, such as jumping on the tracks in front of light rail vehicles (LRVs), as well as walking and riding along the tracks. Every LRV weighs 4 tonnes and can take up to 90m to come to a complete stop. We remind students to keep off the tracks and remain behind the yellow line at all times.