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

What’s remarkable is that only Smith in the role of Doub, Anthony Chisholm as the old alcoholic jitney driver Fielding and Harvy Blanks as the colorful neighborhood numbers taker are reprising their Broadway performances.

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 takes about twenty minutes to drop me off at Mr. Reilly’s work.

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 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

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

But, learning that there was a movie in a near-by village, they secured two jitneys and gave a party for the inmates.

From Hints to Pilgrims by Charles Stephen Brooks