NEWS RELEASE: Sober Ride “Bus Stops” To Make Pick-Ups Out Of Downtown

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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CONTACT: Karla Weikal

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SOBER RIDE “BUS STOPS” TO MAKE PICK-UPS OUT OF DOWNTOWN

The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office drivers to concentrate on downtown crowd;

862-RIDE will not be in service on New Year’s Eve. 

Planning to go to the “Bash on Broadway” this New Year’s Eve?  If your plans include drinking – don’t drive.  Go to one of the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) two downtown bus stops and get a free, safe, and sober ride home.

Davidson County Sheriff’s Office volunteers Jeff Blum, Corley Pearson, and Pam Butler look out over Five Points in East Nashville during operation of Sober Ride in 2010.

“For 28 years now, volunteer employees from the sheriff’s office will offer sober rides home to those who have had too much to drink.  All you have to do is go to one of our Sober Ride bus stops at 5^th and Broadway or 2^nd and Church.  With so many events going on downtown, our service is needed now more than ever.  It has become a Nashville tradition that we are proud to continue this service,” Sheriff Daron Hall said.

Once riders are picked up from the bus stops, they will be taken by passenger bus to a staging area at LP Field, placed in smaller vehicles, and then taken to their destination.

“With so many people expected in downtown, we needed to focus our efforts solely on moving people out of that area.  Of course, we have limited resources in both manpower and vehicles and felt if we could provide rides out of a centralized pick-up location, we could get more people home.  In the past, we have found this is the most efficient way of getting people out of congested downtown,” Hall said.