{"id":19556,"date":"2014-12-31T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=19556"},"modified":"2014-12-31T01:35:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T07:35:24","slug":"cts-offers-safe-ride-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/12\/31\/cts-offers-safe-ride-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"CTS offers Safe Ride on New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13405\" title=\"City of Clarksville - Clarksville, TN\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/clarksville-logo-rgb-450x174.jpg\" alt=\"City of Clarksville - Clarksville, TN\" width=\"240\" height=\"93\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; On New Year\u2019s Eve, the Clarksville Transit System will again offer safe rides home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperation Safe Ride\u201d is a free service open to anyone who is too impaired to drive home. People who live within the Clarksville city limits can call 931.553.2429 for a ride home between the hours of 11:00pm and 4:00am.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_157692\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ctsbus.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157692\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-157692\" title=\"A Clarksville Transit System Bus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ctsbus-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"A Clarksville Transit System Bus\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-157692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Clarksville Transit System Bus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cCTS began this program more than twenty-five years ago and we are proud to have helped hundreds of people get home safely,\u201d said Arthur Bing, Director of the Clarksville Transit System. \u201cWe\u2019re happy to be able to offer the program again this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who cannot, or should not, drive home on New Year\u2019s Eve can call 931.553.2429 to request a ride. Information is also being posted in restaurants, bars and other stores around town with the phone number.<\/p>\n<p>CTS emphasizes that this is not a shuttle service. People will be picked up at their location and driven directly home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI encourage everyone who needs a safe ride home on New Year\u2019s Eve to take advantage of this service. Whether you are at a public or private party in Clarksville, we want to make sure you get home safely. Take this number with you to make sure you have a safe ride home and happy New Year celebration,\u201d said Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan. \u201cI want to thank CTS for making this service available again this year and I truly appreciate the CTS employees who are giving up their own celebrations to provide this service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On New Year\u2019s Eve, the number to call for a safe ride is 931.553.2429.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; On New Year\u2019s Eve, the Clarksville Transit System will again offer safe rides home. \u201cOperation Safe Ride\u201d is a free service open to anyone who is too impaired to drive home. People who live within the Clarksville city limits can call 931.553.2429 for a ride home between the hours of 11:00pm and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[12751,250,1759,825,3583,6251,109,693,5906,5910],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-55q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19557,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19556\/revisions\/19557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}