After you go out, you've got to get home -- eventually. Before you celebrate the beginning of 2015, check out our guide to Bay Area public transportation options. Many transit agencies are offering free rides and most have extended service.
Additionally, if you really feel the need to get inside a car, taxis are making a bid to compete with Uber and Lyft. Flywheel, a mobile app that allows you to order a regular cab from your phone, is offering a $10 flat fee for any ride normally under $50. (Rides more than $50 will be charged the price of the remainder of the ride.) You have to use the app between 8 p.m. and 3 a.m. to qualify. The Safe and Sober program will also offer free taxi rides, via Luxor Cab, after 10 p.m. Call (415) 282-4141 to get a cab and tell the driver "The ride is on Berg Injury Lawyers." Rides are capped at $35, and they will pick you up only from a restaurant, hotel or bar downtown.
And AAA Northern California is offering a free "tipsy tow" service, open to all Bay Area drivers regardless of AAA membership.
From 6 p.m. New Year's Eve to 6 a.m. New Year's Day, drivers who have been drinking can call (800) 222-4357 (AAA-HELP) and ask for a tipsy tow and dispatchers will send a tow truck to their location. Advance reservations are not available.
The service includes a one-way ride for the driver and vehicle to the driver's home, up to 10 miles away from the point of pick-up. Additional passengers, however, will be accommodated only if the there is room in the tow truck.