Exempel på jitney

• In other countries there are examples of minibus services, car sharing, jitney services, and coach services organised by groups of commuters.

• Jitney dramatizes the lives of men hustling to make a living as jitneysunofficial, unlicensed taxi cab drivers.

• Concerns over fares, insurance liabilities, and passenger safety have kept legislative support for jitneys decidedly tepid.

• Going to his sister's house for dinner, he tore ligaments in his left knee while stepping out of a jitney.

• It also regulates trucking and pblico cars, or jitneys, among other regulatory functions.

• Others choose buses because, they claim, jitney drivers are less safe, and are prone to using cell phones and playing loud music while driving.

• By the end of 1916, only 6,000 jitneys remained.

• An increase in bus fares usually leads to a significant rise in jitney usage.

• Travelers cite safety, comfort, reliability and cost as factors in choosing larger bus service over jitneys.

• As enforcement is lax, jitney drivers have even created cooperatives to support each other and to establish jitney stands.

• Jitney was also a slang term for a nickel.

• Other terms used are "livery cab", "car service", or "jitney cab".

• Some jitney drivers accept requests for service by phone from their regular customers.

• Admission was 10 cents per person, 25 cents for swimming and 10 cents for a jitney dance per couple.

• The league used and continues to use the jitney format for forming teams.