Safety & travel advice
Travelling around Britain by public transport is generally very safe, but there are precautions you can follow to reduce risk and make you feel more confident.
- Make sure you know your route before you travel. This will reduce the chance of you getting lost in an unfamiliar area.
- Make sure someone else knows your day's itinerary.
- Don't keep any tickets or maps in your wallet, and don't get your wallet out in public.
- Carry some extra cash in case you lose your cards.
- When in busy areas, keep an eye on your possessions. Thieves operate in busy areas.
- If you're travelling at night or in an unfamiliar area, try and get someone to meet you at your destination.
- Don't walk alone at night with a personal stereo. This makes you less aware of your surroundings. Walk purposefully.
- If you feel threatened when on public transport, attract the attention of other passengers or the driver, by sounding the emergency alarm.
- At night, try not to sit in an empty train or tram carriage without access to adjoining carriages.
- If you don't feel safe, get off or move to another carriage.
- On an empty bus, sit near the driver or conductor.
- If travelling by taxi or minicab, make sure that it is licensed, and sit in the back.
- When you get to your destination, ask the driver to wait until you get inside.
- If in doubt, make an excuse and don't get in the vehicle.
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