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

“When I was younger and couldn’t afford an actual vacation, I would bring my toddler on an adventure I called ‘the bus to the boat to the jitney to the beach,’ ” Coven said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

This is the dramatic context for this jitney station, which is about to be boarded up by the city so that it can eventually be torn down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2019

It's not right that these jitney services worsen just getting around for most of us.

From New York Times ● May 15, 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

Because cabdrivers refused to go there, residents relied for decades on private jitneys to get around — cars that followed set routes through the community.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

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 pickup 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

When I said that I wanted to push on to Tshikapa at once, Moody said, "We will leave at five in the morning in one of the jitneys and be in Tshikapa tomorrow night."

From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson