UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, December 9, 1996
5A
Safe Ride helps partiers
Drivers sacrifice fun times for work
By Neal Shulenburger Kansan staff writer
It's 10:30 Saturday night. Many students are sitting at a bar, partying with friends. But for four college-aged people, it's time to go to work.
The drivers of Safe Ride, a student-financed program that provides KU students free rides home from any location, work when others have fun.
"If you can handle the hours, it's just a relaxy livebod job." Neal said.
Kate Neal, who has worked for the service for two years and is the most experienced driver of the four, said she didn't mind the hours.
Safe Ride is not Neal's only job. A 24-year-old former KU student, Neal also runs a day-care service.
This night, after a quick look under the hood of a silver Mercury Topaz with the Safe Ride logo emblazoned on the side, Neal drives to the Kansas Union.
The first call comes after 15 minutes. Neal is asked to pick up a passenger from Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St., where a Christmas party is apparently in full swing.
"Ten-four," she said, using citizens band lingo for "yes" to show that she accepts the call.
She picks up a well-dressed, fairly sober student. Neal signals the dispatch that she has picked up her passenger and is en route. He will return to Johnny's twice more that night.
Three calls and one hour later she picks up a short woman in a brown leather jacket and jeans from a house on Ohio Street and delivers her to an apartment on Massachusetts Street. At 1 a.m., Neal tells the woman walking a long diagonal across Massachusetts Street, looking like she had been drinking ever since.
"Seeing people like that really doesn't frustrate me," Neal said. "What makes me mad is whenever they call again wanting to be taken somewhere else. Safe Ride is supposed to be taking students home, but some people think that it is just a taxi service and abuse it."
By midnight, business has increased, and Neal is no longer able to return to the Kansas Union between pickups. She is asked to go on to the next location as soon as she signals that she's dropped off the last load.
At 1.18 a.m., Neal picks up two talkative students from the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. The two have been at the Granada on a date, and they thank Neal as they get into the car. Although neither appeared drunk, they both said that they were using Safe Ride to avoid a DUI arrest.
"I work for a company that sells wine to retail liquor stores in Lawrence, Topeka and Manhattan," said James Statton, San Diego graduate student. "If I got arrested for driving drunk, I would lose my job. So I use Safe Ride even if I have had anything more than about two beers."
However, other Granada patrons picked up by Safe Ride that night weren't as friendly.
Earlier Neal picked up three drunk patrons, one of whom was carrying a cup. When Neal asked him to get rid of the cup, a brief argument ensued before the man's friends convinced him to throw the cup out.
"Usually people don't argue too much," she said. "But sometimes the smallest things set them off. No one has ever attacked anyone to my knowledge. Tonight has been really calm. Usually I get two or three people who do this."
At 2:45 a.m., 15 minutes after Safe Ride stops accepting calls, Neal picks up three women from Marvin Hall. They have been working on their final projects for an art class. She drops off two of them at Jayhawker Towers and another at Hash-
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"If I got arrested for driving drunk, I would lose my job. So I use Safe Ride even if I have had anything more than about two beers."
James Statton San Diego graduate student
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"Not all of the people who I pick up are drunk," Neal said. "From time to time we get calls from people who ask I'm not drunk. Can I still use Safe Ride?" The answer is yes, anyone can, and the people who use it that aren't drunk are some of the nicest people we get during the night."
At 3:11 a.m. Neal heads to a Total gas station and fills up the car. By 3:30 a.m., she has returned to the Lawrence Bus Company, 837 Pennsylvania St., and parked her car. Her shift is done. She answered 15 calls and picked up 23 passengers. During the night, the four Safe Ride drivers had responded to 67 calls and picked up 144 passengers.
"This is a slow night for a Saturday," said Michael Holladay, supervisor of Safe Ride. "People are starting to get more and more serious as finals approach; it happens every year."
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