Bring in this new year with a bang, not with a crash.

For the 29th year in a row, Moose Jaw Transit's "Ding in the New Year" will return to the city to give everyone a safe ride home.

"We offer free transit service to anyone that wishes to use it from 7:55 pm until 3:15 in the morning on New Years Eve," explained Transit and Fleet Manager Mark Sture. "We carry about two to three hundred people a year, we'd like it to be a little higher, but again, that's two to three hundred people that could otherwise be driving home. So let's get those people off the rode and get them home safely."

To help make the announcement, Vanier and Central's SADD groups, members of SGI, Mayor Fraser Tolmie, MLA Warren Michelson, and Moose Jaw Police Service's Cpl. Kevin Pilsworth were all there to announce the night of free transit.

"The last free service we provided was for the One Horse Town Concert," added Sture. "Again, it's to provide the opportunity to get people home safely, make sure people don't drink and drive, and just provide that alternative to people that don't have any money left for the taxi."

Saskatchewan has the highest number of drunk driving incidents in all of Canada, and this is one more initiative to help curb the amount of people who would be driving impaired.

"Our statistics in Saskatchewan are just so high that we need to start getting those numbers down," said Victoria Wourms, President of Vanier's SADD. "Just having something like this that's so positive and helping people making the right decision is just such an awesome thing and reflects really great on our community."