If you have too much to drink tonight, what will you do?

You can call for a taxicab, phone Tatman's Towing for a free ride and tow or touch base with your party's designated driver, but don't bother waiting for a bus.

In Champaign-Urbana bus service will end around 5 or 6 p.m. on New Year's Eve. And there's no bus service at all on New Year's Day.

"The ridership just isn't there," said Jan Kijowski, marketing director with Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, on why MTD does not offer bus service on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

Service will start again on Jan. 2, between 5:30 a.m. and 6 a.m., depending on the route. As part of the regular reduction in service during the University of Illinois' winter break, SafeRides also is not offered during winter break. So you can scratch that option off your list.

Because taxis will be busy shuttling passengers around town tonight, call ahead of time. Even today, well before your festivities begin. If you don't call until later in the night (or morning), be patient.

"Sometimes it's so busy, we can't answer the phone," said Freedom Cab dispatcher Phillip Cabello. "The best thing to do is call at least two hours ahead of time. ... Or if you know you may need a pickup at 11 or 1, just call and make a time," he said.

In addition to calling for a cab, "Tatman's is a great option, too," Kijowski said.

For over 20 years, Tatman's Towing of Urbana has offered free rides and tows to drivers unable to drive themselves home. There's no catch. But don't ask them to drive you from one party to another. And they don't take reservations.

"We're just there to give people another option to get you and your car home safe," said Tatman's Towing owner Jim Hampton. "It's just something to give back to the community. Nobody wants anybody impaired behind the wheel of car. We don't want drunks out on the road," Hampton said.

To take advantage of Tatman's New Year's Eve towing program, call the dispatcher at 328-2424 from 7 p.m. Dec. 31 until 3 a.m. Jan. 1. It's free if you live within the Champaign, Urbana or Savoy city limits. Beyond that, the company will charge you a mileage rate back home.

Police tend to be the most busy with DUI cases on the evening of the Super Bowl, mostly because people tend to start partying — and drinking — earlier in the evening or afternoon, said Illinois State Police Lt. John Wenzel.

"With the Illini playing, there probably will be some celebrating a little earlier in the day and people may drink more than they normally would," Wenzel said.

At the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco, the Illini football team will take on UCLA at 2:30 p.m. CST today (broadcast on ESPN) and the tipoff for the Illini men's basketball against Purdue is at 3 p.m. CST (broadcast on ESPN2).

For New Year's Eve, state police in District 10 have not planned any specific roadside safety checks, in which police block roads and check drivers' insurance information, car headlights and other items. But state police will have more troopers out and about in Champaign-Urbana, Danville and Decatur looking for impaired drivers, Wenzel said.

Officers will be looking for signs of impaired driving, such as when a car takes 30 seconds to go after the light turns green, makes wide turns, weaves and other signs.

"One of the things we're looking for is not just drunk but drugged drivers," he said.

Officers also will be out this weekend enforcing the new state seat belt legislation. State law used to require only the front-seat driver and passenger, plus passengers under 19, to wear a seat belt. But beginning Jan. 1, all passengers must now fasten their seat belts. (Back seat taxicab passengers are exempt, however.)

If you spot an impaired driver on the road, call 911, Wenzel advised.

It will be helpful for police if you can provide information such as the direction in which the vehicle is traveling and a description, such as color, make and model. If you can see the license plate number, that's great, but don't try to catch up to the car to read the plates, Wenzel said.