Free Holiday Lyft Rides In Riverdale; How To Get One

If you need to get home this holiday season and you've had a few too many, why not take a Lyft? It's free.

That's right, starting Dec. 15 and running through New Year's, the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) will offer the annual Holiday SoberRide program between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. each evening to "keep local roads safe from impaired drivers during this traditionally high-risk, holiday period," according to a statement.

Under the program, area residents 21 and older may download Lyft to their phones and then enter a SoberRide code in the "Promo" section of the app to get a free transportation home (up to $15). The promo codes will be posted each week to www.SoberRide.com: at 2 p.m. on Dec. 15, Dec. 23, and Dec. 31.

“Last December, nearly a thousand (911) Greater Washington residents did the right thing and availed themselves of this lifesaving service rather than possibly driving home impaired,” said Kurt Gregory Erickson, WRAP’s President, in the statement. “For SoberRide’s hours of operation on New Year's alone, this level of ridership (336) translated into SoberRide removing a would-be drunk driver from Greater Washington’s roadways every one-and-a-half-minutes.”

The program is also offered on St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo, Independent Day, and Halloween.

Image via SoberRide