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A Sacramento man hopes to decrease drunk driving with a map outlining restaurants and bars near Regional Transit lines. In February, Adam Wong created a Google map that color-coded nearby restaurants and bars along with Regional Transit lines. He shared the map on Reddit in hopes it would reach a few people."I think the last time I looked at it, it might be close to 6,000 views. It hasn’t stopped getting views since I made it a couple months ago," Wong said.++Download the KCRA 3 News app for iOS and AndroidWong said he created the map for two reasons. One reason was so his family and friends would have a place to look at before heading downtown. He also wanted to tackle a bigger problem -- drunken driving. “It’s a very car-heavy city,” Wong said. “When people go to places, it tends to be by car, which results in a lot of fatalities from distracted driving and specifically -- drunk driving.”Wong has been personally affected by distracted driving. His high school friend was killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 80.“It was really bad. It just came out of nowhere. You really don’t expect your classmate to pass away, especially from something like distracted driving," Wong said. “I definitely don’t want anybody else to experience losing someone just because they wanted to drive somewhere.”In April, Wong introduced his project to the Regional Transit board. He said he received positive feedback from the board members, and some even said they had used the map.“That’s when I was like, ‘Whoa! They actually used my map.’ It was cool. I don’t see what bad could come out of it,” Wong said.Wong does not want to stop here, though. He plans to create a website that will host the map, so more people can use it.“I hope that beyond old, new, returning riders take advantage of the map and public transit,” Wong said. “My ultimately wish is that I want to see Sacramento become a transit-friendly city, where we have an efficient transit system that we don’t have to take necessarily for entertainment, but for everyday life.”He added that “we have work to do to make this city a better place. I feel like with this map and more people using transit, it will get there.”(Can't see the map, click here.)