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| Mayor Pat Fiacco launches the city’s Ding in the New Year program with help from Police Chief Troy Hagen at McNally’s Pub Dec. 13, 2011. The service provides for free transit service on New Year’s Eve between 7 p.m. and 2:15 a.m. New Year’s Day. Photograph by: Bryan Schlosser, Regina Leader-Post |
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Statistics from Regina Police Chief Troy Hagen
"A communication is more than a human need. It's an inevitable part of our modern lives.
"20.1 million Canadians aged 13 or over have a cell phone.
"Over 3 million Canadians have Twitter accounts.
"In Regina alone, 140,760 residents aged 13 or over are frequent users of Facebook.
"In total over 17 million people in our country participate in a social networking such as Twitter, Facebook or other social media.
"Instant communicating with citizens, friends, family and businesses haas become cxommonplace in our society today.
"Communication is also a key factor in safety.
"We dial 911 when we see someone hurt or in trouble.
"We phone a friend to help with a heavy couch.
"We text our children to make sure they have a safe ride home.
"We phone a taxi to make sure we have a safe ride home.""Through the RID or Report Impaired Drivers program, we've received over 1,400 phone call this year.
"(As of Dec. 13), there have been 547 drivers that have been found to be exceeding the legal limit, 13 of which were inovlved in accidents involving bodily harm."
Additional comments from Mayor Pat Fiacco
"It's really about judgment and making that good decision and we’re helping them make an easy decision and that’s by taking public transit on New Year's.
It’s really simple. If you decide to drink, leave your keys at home and get on the bus and the bus is going to take you to all these places free of charge."
- Mayor Pat Fiacco
This is a good thing!
ReplyDeleteIt definitely should help reduce the number of accidents.
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