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UI used to have a program called "Vandal Taxi" that ran on weekend nights to give students rides. It wasn't completely full of drunk people, as we have no other bus service and people would ride it home from a friend's house or the movie theatre on the other side of town. I always liked riding it because it was warm (it can get below 0 here), safe (they had a bus monitor as well as a driver), and rather reliable.
One of the policies was that you could only ride it once, so it wouldn't be used for party hopping. It ran for two years when I was a student and I really loved the program because I knew if I couldn't reach my ride, I wanted to go home early, or my friends and I lived in different parts of town we'd all get home safe. A huge issue was funding, and the UI Parents Association gave money (and my parents gave because they thought it was a great idea) to keep it running, but of course people said it promoted drinking.
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