jitney
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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
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
A few of the more pretentious ones pass in their own cars, or in jitneys, or upon busses.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2019
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
Gone are the jitneys which bus-line owners rashly garaged last year to compel higher fares.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then another terrific blast sounded from the Big Bridge, and the girls saw three large jitneys turn in from the main road and pull up before Bill’s cottage.
From The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
