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PS: The hotline you should call is 1720.
We all enjoy drinking on New Year’s Eve and we tend to overdo it which is fine but it’s never okay to drink and drive, even if you’ve only had one drink. You should always have a designated driver in case you need to go back home, but it’s preferable to stay home (or wherever you are) tomorrow night or take a taxi. If you can’t afford a taxi, the Ministry Of Interior and The Traffic Management Center, with the help of Alfa and the cooperation of The General Syndicate of Lebanon’s Taxi Drivers, launched the «ما تشرب و تسوق…ارجع بتاكسي مجاناً» to make sure everyone gets home safely.
This being said, “ما تكون بلا راس السنة” and take a taxi if you must. Otherwise, enjoy your night and happy new year everyone!
“If you can’t afford a taxi”
if you have a car, you should be able to afford a taxi.
“If you have a car” and can afford to get drunk enough while still enjoying your night, but still cannot afford a taxi, you deserve to die in a drunk driving accident. Just please don’t do it with anyone around.
An otherwise great initiative, thanks for spreading the message. I just hope the system does not get overloaded by abusers, and people to whom a 20$ntaxi fare (or whatever amount) actually makes a difference, get to use it.
I live in South Africa and my car insurance includes a fee of 1usd per month which allows me to call for a driver to collect me and drive me home. I think it is a good solution which anyone can use if added to the car inaurance.
Are you kidding me? Out of everything they can help people with in this country, they choose this?
It really is a shame for you guys to do such a huge campaign and then turn out disappointing people! I’ve been living in France for a long time, so comming back to Beirut everything was really disappointing to me except your campaign that “showed that you guys do really care about society sbd social welfare” only for me to call your hotline and hear that the service was available untill 5 am in the morning. I’m glad thst I was able to get home safe bit it was astonishing to realize that you guys would let drunk people drive their way back home after 5am!
It made me realise that we still have a loong way to go until we become a civilzed nation…. Thanks to ppl like you