Free safe rides home for women, transfolk, and gender queers

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Just ran across this and I can't believe I never heard of this service before now!

RightRides is a free service that provides a safe ride home for women, transpeople, and gender queers on Saturday nights/Sunday mornings between midnight and 3am. They serve parts of Queens, a large portion of Brooklyn (as far east as Utica Avenue and south to Eastern Parkway, along Prospect Park West, Kensington to Parkside, and into Bay Ridge, as well as all of downtown Manhattan south of 23rd Street and can be reached at (718) 964-7781. You have to be picked up and dropped off within the service area, which can be seen on this map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&q=boerum+hill,+brooklyn&layer=&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=13&ll=40.693915,-73.954811&spn=0.078743,0.188141&msid=116466374563827716105.00000111e2265debed28b&msa=0

More info at:
http://www.rightrides.org/

I've had many an uneasy walk home late at night, because sometimes I just don't have the spare cash for a cab. The phone number is now in my cell and I will absolutely be using it in the future.

I'm going to make this a global announcement for a few days, and then I'll retire it back to "Brooklyn and Beyond." Ladies, PLEASE put this number in your cell phone, just in case. Promise?