Town Fights Drunk Driving, One Busload At A Time

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April 08, 2015

Corre Cantinas buses are sometimes full - and sometimes mostly empty. But they're available to anyone who calls one up from 5:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Friday and Saturdays, for $3.50 each way.
(Stina Sieg/KJZZ) — Corre Cantinas buses are sometimes full - and sometimes mostly empty. But they're available to anyone who calls one up from 5:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Friday and Saturdays, for $3.50 each way. (Stina Sieg/KJZZ)

If you’ve had too much to drink, the usual advice is to call a cab. But in rural communities across the Southwest, taxi services just don’t exist. From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Stina Sieg of KJZZ found a small New Mexican town that has a solution.

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Stina Sieg, senior field correspondent for KJZZ. She tweets @StinaSieg.

This segment aired on April 8, 2015.