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SafeRide makes free rides easier with new app BY OWEN ZERAMBO @DailyWildcat
If you find yourself around campus and the sun has gone down, the idea of walking home in the dark may seem rather unappealing. But fear not, for you are a Wildcat, and a fraction of your tuition and student fees have already paid for a solution. SafeRide is a free transportation service
that has been operated by University of Arizona students since 1981. Back then, SafeRide was known as the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Escort Service, which was set up so students could request to have other students walk home with them. As the program grew in popularity and students began to live further away from campus, ASUA purchased a fleet of vehicles and expanded the ASUA Escort Service into the SafeRide program.
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Today, SafeRide offers pick-up, drop-off services between any two locations within its area of operation — about nine square miles around the campus — and the only price for a ride is to show your CatCard. Starting Nov. 9, SafeRide will have a new app, TapRide, to make that free trip home or to get food even easier. “We also offer trips to the grocery store,” said Jacob Smith, administrative director of SafeRide. “Basically, anything that a student would need to do during the week so they
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won’t have to be walking home alone.” SafeRide operates in the evenings, beginning at 6:30 p.m., Sunday through Friday. The program is staffed with 45 to 50 drivers who are all current students at the UA. With up to 11 drivers on shift, the service is used by hundreds of passengers each evening. “I’d say we usually take about 300 to 400 a night,” said Sal Licari, operations director
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