From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for August 28, 1989:

Kansas University student body vice president Jeff Morris said he hoped that Secure Cab, which had operated eight weeks the previous spring, was going to begin running again this fall. The service could be used, for instance, by students who had had too much to drink or who did not feel secure walking home at night. “It’s an emergency service that is designed to help students and keep them safe,” Morris said. The service had started under another form two years previously, when the Tipsy Taxi had initially attracted riders but whose business had then fallen off. “A lot of students took the cab, but it became too expensive. It cost too much money per rider,” Morris explained. The service had been revised in 1988 when shuttle vans were put into service, picking students up on a fixed route at taverns and on campus and then dropping them off at home. After the company that provided the service, Corporate Coach, had gone out of business in February, the Secure Cab program had been successfully tested in April and May with A1 City Cab. The Student Senate Executive Committee had approved a bill in July allocating $45,545 to the KU Transportation Board for the project. Students were to be required to give the taxi company their student identification number over the phone when calling for a ride, and then to show the taxi driver their student ID in order to get a ride, Morris said. He said he hoped that would reduce the number of non-KU students attempting to use the free service.