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
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
Some are braving the trains; others the jitney.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
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 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
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 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
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
"There are six of us, and we could get one of the jitneys to take us over to the Hall, baggage and all, for half a dollar."
From The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets by Stratemeyer, Edward
