Guaranteed Ride Home
Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) provides subsidized rides home from campus in the case of an emergency.
WashU participates in Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH), a program that provides WashU employees and students who use smart commuting options with subsidized one-way rides home from campus (up to four per year) in the event of an emergency, sickness, or unscheduled overtime You must enroll in the program to be eligible.
Eligible Circumstances
- Sickness – personal, child, spouse, or other immediate family member.
- Unscheduled overtime—when required to work beyond your normally scheduled hours without prior notice.
- Personal emergency—includes theft, fire, or other personal emergency requiring immediate attention.
- Unanticipated absence of carpool driver (for carpool commuters through RideFinders).
The program is not able to provide rides due to rescheduled appointments like doctor visits, acts of nature such as a snowstorm or power failure, working late if you have at least one day of notice. or inability to arrange transportation home due to day-to-day planning issues.
Eligible Commuting & Details
Program coverage varies depending on whether your smart commuting option is transit, biking, walking, or carpooling:
Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) provides a GRH program for those who use transit, bicycling, or walking as their main commuting method. In the case of an emergency, this program reimburses the commuter for 80 percent of the cost of the ride home up to $60. The ride must start at your work/school location and end at home (or at another location if necessitated by the type of emergency). To be eligible, register online.
To use a Guaranteed Ride Home from Citizens for Modern Transit:
- Order your taxi, Uber, Lyft, or Enterprise Rent-A-Car and pay the entire cost upfront.
- To book a rental car with Enterprise, go to enterprise.com or call 1-800-Rent-A-Car. Use discount code 01GRH23 and PIN, “CMT.” The car may be returned the next day.
- Submit your receipt to rides@wustl.edu with a short description of why you needed GRH along with your WashU ID number and where the check should be sent. Parking and Transportation will submit the receipt to the CMT and you can expect your reimbursement via check within two weeks.
For additional information, contact CMT at info@cmt-stl.org or 314-231-7272.
RideFinders provides a GRH program for those who commute via carpool. This program reimburses the commuter for 100 percent of the cost of their ride home up to $125 in case of emergency (note: tip is not included). The ride must start at your work/school location and end at home (or at another location if necessitated by the type of emergency). To be eligible, register with RideFinders.
To use a Guaranteed Ride Home from RideFinders:
- Order your taxi, Uber, or Lyft, and pay for the entire cost upfront.
- Submit your receipt to rides@wustl.edu with a short description of why you needed GRH along with your WashU ID number and where the check should be sent. Parking and Transportation will submit the receipt to the CMT and you can expect your reimbursement via check within two weeks.
For additional information, contact RideFinders at ridefinders@mct.org or 800-847-7433.
WashU Rides
A free website resource to help you explore WashU’s smart commuting options, including carpools, bikepools, and more.