Ride Safe, noun phrase

Also with small initials. The name of the voluntary organization co-ordinating assistance with free travel for national servicemen who are on leave (see quotation 1981). Usually attributive. Cf. Belleryna.
1979 W. Steenkamp in Cape Times 20 Jan.Project Ride Safe, the give-a-troopie-a-lift scheme, is now well under way...Thanks to the Ride Safe scheme our troopies’ hitch-hiking is rather better regulated...If you see a garage displaying the red-and-yellow Ride Safe sign call in there in case there is a soldier waiting for a lift.
1979 Grocott’s Mail 8 Feb. 1Two Ride Safe pick-up points for homeward bound soldiers are planned for Grahamstown.
1979 Paratus Oct. (Suppl.) 1The Ride Safe scheme for National Servicemen wishing to go home over weekends is working admirably well. However, some motorists fear an accident with a soldier in the car.
1981 Rand Daily Mail 29 Sept. 14The ‘ride safe’ project was launched in 1978. This project, which is at present being expanded and improved, provides lifts for national servicemen, safe boarding along freeways, free sleeping accommodation in certain towns along the main routes, proper third party insurance and special luminous sashes to make them more visible at night.
1982 E. Prov. Herald 10 Nov. 10If funds are needed to make the Ride-Safe telephone service more effective, why on earth should they come from the good-hearted women who do the job?
1985 Cape Times 30 Dec. 7Ride Safe: Lifts for national servicemen.
Also with small initials.The name of the voluntary organization co-ordinating assistance with free travel for national servicemen who are on leave (see quotation 1981). Usually attributive.
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