Getting home after last call in Buffalo: the actual options

Your real options after last call in Buffalo: a rideshare called from a side street instead of the scrum, the UB Police campus escort line at 716-645-2222 if you're University-side, your own feet if you're in the Heights near South Campus, and a friend who knows where you are. Lineup's Get Home sheet keeps all of them one tap away all night, and moves them front and center after 1am - because the end of the night is the part worth getting right.

Rideshare, minus the scrum

Chippewa at 3:50am is two hundred people staring at the same corner while thirty identical sedans inch past. Don't join it. Walk one block - Franklin, Pearl - pin a specific corner, and let the driver come to a human instead of a crowd. Surge softens noticeably within twenty minutes of close, which is exactly one order of fries at the Old Pink.

Split the ride with whoever's going your direction; the group that arrived together should leave in fewer cars than it thinks it needs. Get Home hands you off to your rideshare app with your current location already filled in, so there's no drunk-thumbing an address at 3am.

The escort line

UB Police run a campus escort service - 716-645-2222. Call it and someone walks or drives with you. That's what it's for; nobody staffing it is judging your night. If your campus isn't UB, find your school's equivalent now and put it in your phone, because 3am is a bad time for research.

Walking it

The Heights is the one district built for walking home - The Steer and Average Joe's sit minutes from South Campus, which is most of their charm. Chippewa to campus is not a walk; it's miles, and 2am confidence is terrible at that math. If the night ends downtown, it ends with a ride.

When you do walk: walk with people, keep to lit streets, and let Get Home draw the route to the address you saved as home instead of trusting the shortcut instinct.

Tell someone, automatically

Lineup lets you share live location with chosen friends for 1, 2, 4, or 8 hours. It expires on its own - there is deliberately no way to make it permanent - and both sides get notified when it starts and ends. "Text me when you're home" becomes a thing that happens by itself. The full location story is in the privacy policy: points are used to verify and then discarded, never stored as a trail.

What Get Home actually is

One sheet, one tap, all night: rideshare handoff with your location prefilled, the campus escort number, and the walking route home. After 1am it stops waiting to be asked and moves to the front.

One honest line to end on: no app gets you home - people do. Get Home just makes the good option the easy one at the exact hour your judgment is at its worst. Round up the crew on the way out, too: nights that start together should end together.