Metro Ready Travel Training and Outreach

Metro Ready travel training

Metro Ready is short-term, comprehensive, intensive instruction designed to teach customers how to travel safely and independently on the accessible Metro Bus and Metro Rail public transportation systems.

The goal of travel training is to enable and empower our customers to travel independently using the accessible Metro Bus and Metro Rail systems to a regularly visited destination and back.

Some types of training include:

Familiarization training, showing you how to use the accessible features of Metro Rail and Metro Bus
Metro Rail station tours, to help you understand how to safely navigate and use the stations you travel through
Metro Bus accessibility demonstrations (available to groups of 20 or more)

Metro employs three full time professional travel trainers as well as six contract travel trainers in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Metro Ready travel training is offered at no cost to customers with disabilities and senior customers.

Group trainings and outreach events

Upon request, TAC trainers can present to groups and organizations and attend public events to talk about accessible travel, and distribute resources.

Possible services include:

Presentations, display tables and Question & Answers sessions regarding accessible transportation
Tours of a Metro station to promote and identify the accessibility and safety features
Bus demonstrations on accessibility (available to groups of 20 or more)
Distribution of printed resources
- Large Print Pocket Guides
- Tips for Riding Metro for Senior Citizens and People with or without Disabilities
- Accessible Options for People with Disabilities and Senior Citizens
Issue Senior Smart Trip cards

Travel training and outreach

Group trainings and outreach events

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