Nearly 2,000 Use SoberRide

Published January 2, 2013 by AlexandriaNews.org

Nearly 2,000 persons in the Washington-metropolitan area used the free cab ride service, SoberRide, this holiday season as opposed to possibly driving home drunk.

"For its hours of operation on New Year's Eve alone, this level of ridership translates into SoberRide removing a would-be drunk driver from Greater Washington’s roadways every 74-seconds," said Kurt Gregory Erickson, President of the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program, the organization conducting the region’s SoberRide effort.

WRAP’s most recent holiday SoberRide offering – which concluded at 6:00 am this morning after kicking-off and running nightly since Dec. 14, 2012 – provided 1,927 total, free cabs rides to local residents age 21 and older who otherwise may have attempted to drive home after drinking.

Nearly 400 (387) utilized the Washington-metropolitan area service last night (New Year’s Eve) alone. (During last New Year's Eve [2011], a comparative 396 persons used WRAP's SoberRide program.)

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