jitney

Wave, a public jitney, runs routes all over the island and is free through the end of 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

He had just come from helping at his church’s soup kitchen and now was at Tops, volunteering in the community jitney service that shuttles people without a ride to and from the store.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022

But Wilson is less interested in mining any potential melodrama than he is in exploring the contrasting worldviews between the aptly named Youngblood and the older jitney drivers, who challenge, rebuke and encourage him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2019

The jitney came and she didn’t have long to wait; the hotel was a new one, surprisingly close by.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2018

The jitney, which is what rich people call the shuttle, goes up at seven, and I can drop the pieces off then.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

I couldn’t agree more with Brian Broome’s Nov. 9 Tuesday Opinion column, “So long, jitneys — and farewell to our connective tissue.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021

Those agents, who drive pick-up trucks, are different than the parking enforcement agents that ticket vehicles for meter violations and other offenses, who drive small vehicles sometimes called jitneys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2018

Simultaneously serving as their kids’ drill masters, coaches, instructors, one-on-one opponents, hype men, financiers, advisers, protectors, bouncers, dietitians, jitneys, critics, vision boards, sponsors, and parents.

From Slate ● May 5, 2017

In other countries, mini-buses that occupy a gray world between public and private transportation go by many names: jitneys, matatus, "informal" transit.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2015

The day after Dee's success as a jitneur the paper came out with headlines that the jitneys were no longer within the law.

From Tripping with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell