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News Release: Need a Safe Ride Home this New Year’s Eve? Take advantage of PBOT’s discount on taxi, Lyft and Uber rides

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Up to $20 off taxis, Lyft and Uber rides—and free TriMet, Portland Streetcar and C-TRAN service—are available to Portlanders this New Year's Eve holiday
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(Dec. 27, 2024) The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) wants to get everyone home safely from their New Year’s Eve celebrations. That’s why PBOT will offer discounted taxi, Lyft and Uber rides as part of its Safe Ride Home program. 

Safe Ride Homecoupons—up to $20 off a taxi fare or up to $10 off a Lyft or Uber ride, while supplies last—are valid on rides originating in the city of Portland between 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, and 4 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1st, 2025.  

PBOT provides Safe Ride Home as a way to curb impaired driving—a top contributing factor to traffic death on Portland streets, according to the most recent Portland Vision Zero Action Plan Update. Sixty-nine percent of deadly crashes in Portland between 2017 and 2021 involved alcohol and/or drug impairment. In that same period, 430 people died or suffered life-altering injuries due to impairment. In these crashes, 79% of the drivers were impaired. 

For those who plan to celebrate New Year’s Eve, help make our streets safer by making Safe Ride Home part of your plans: 

  • Taxi rides:  Participants can get a paper coupon for up to $20 off a taxi trip at many locations in Portland where people are celebrating. Look for Safe Ride Home flyers, ask staff for a coupon, and present that coupon to a Broadway Cab, Flat Cab, PDX Yellow Cab or Radio Cab taxi driver.  
  • Lyft rides: Participants can get $10 off a Lyft ride in Portland. Download the digital  coupon on Tuesday, Dec. 31.
  • Uber rides: Participants can get $10 off an Uber ride in Portland. Download the digital  coupon on Tuesday, Dec. 31.

Want to get home using transit instead? Hop on any TriMet bus or MAX starting at 8 p.m. for free service till 3 a.m. Portland Streetcar will lift fares from 8 p.m. through midnight and C-TRAN will also provide free bus rides after 6 p.m.  

PBOT’s Safe Ride Home program started in 2017 and provides travel options for people celebrating New Year's Eve, St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo, Brewers Festival and Halloween. During past events, PBOT’s program has helped over 3,300 Portlanders celebrate responsibly and get home safely. The Safe Ride Home program is funded by the taxi permit fees and the 50-cent fee charged for every Lyft and Uber ride in Portland. The fee also covers safety inspections and the PDX WAV program that makes accessible on-demand vehicles available to people with wheelchairs or mobility devices in Portland.  

People killed by traffic violence are members of the community—children, siblings, parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, neighbors, and friends. Whenever a person is killed on Portland’s streets, countless people feel the loss of loved ones whose lives are tragically cut short. The Federal Highway Administration estimates that the loss of quality of life and socioeconomic impact of each traffic death is about $5.7 million. 

Everyone must remain vigilant and use caution to always stay safe on Portland streets—and especially during celebratory holidays. If you are driving, slow down. Slower speeds are proven to reduce crashes and their severity. People who drive slower can stop more quickly to avoid a crash. Driving more slowly also reduces the chance of injury or death when crashes occur. A pedestrian struck by a person driving 40 mph is eight times more likely to die than a pedestrian struck at 20 mph. Nighttime, wide streets and large vehicles are also top contributing factors to traffic deaths. 

Learn more about Vision Zero, the City of Portland’s goal to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on our streets, including:  

  • How Portland is making streets safer through Vision Zero by setting safe speed limits, redesigning dangerous streets, enforcing speed limits, improving street lighting, maximizing signal operations, responding quickly to critical safety needs, curbing impaired driving, educating Portland about making safe travel choices, and more. 
  • Traffic safety projects where PBOT has reduced top-end speeding (10 mph or more over the speed limit) by 67% to 81%.  
  • How you can help us reach Vision Zero. 
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