[StBernard] Holiday Ride Home free service returns to St. Bernard Parish

[Westley Annis]

Holiday Ride Home free service returns to St. Bernard Parish
By Times-Picayune Staff 
November 28, 2009, 5:00AM

The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office is once again offering rides home to
parish residents who have had too much to drink.

With an aim of stopping drinking and driving in St. Bernard Parish, the
sheriff's free Holiday Ride Home program began its 26th straight year on
Friday, with residents able to get a ride home by the Sheriff's Office -- no
questions asked -- if they have been drinking, Sheriff Jack Stephens said. 

Nonresidents can get a ride to a sheriff's substation and make arrangements
to be picked up there.

When Stephens started the free ride program after taking office in 1984, it
was the first of its type in the New Orleans area and has served as a means
to reduce the number of inebriated motorists.

About 20 people took advantage of the free ride program in 2008.

Call 504.271.2501 for a ride.