It’s a pretty good deal.
Drive sober and score a free ticket to a Hamilton Bulldogs hockey game.
Not bad, eh?
That’s the message Hamilton Police wants to drive home as the holiday season RIDE program began Friday morning. They were outside Copps Coliseum with Bruiser, the Bulldogs’ mascot, helping set up traffic pylons.
Police — who will be spot checking drivers throughout the city during the campaign and even have a “flying squad” to increase mobility and visibility — will be handing out vouchers to drivers who go through RIDE lanes. The vouchers can be turned in to the Copps Coliseum box office and redeemed for one free ticket.
The vouchers do not include tickets for the Bulldogs’ outdoor game at Ivor Wynne Stadium Jan. 21.
The Bulldogs donated the tickets and police are handing them out as “our way of thanking drivers for driving safe,” deputy chief Ken Leendertse said in a statement.
It’s a “home and home” series, Leendertse said. “Drivers who are driving home safely get a ticket to a Hamilton Bulldogs home game.
Ed Chamberlain, the Bulldogs’ vice-president of sales and marketing, said the partnership gives the team a chance to encourage the public to look for alternatives to impaired driving.
Constable Claus Wagner, traffic safety co-ordinator, said city officers stopped more than 120,000 vehicles from Jan. 1 to Nov. 30 this year.
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