How To Use Jitney In A Sentence
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Let competing county buses and private jitneys ply bus stops for passengers.
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Minibuses and jitneys, often unlicensed and poorly maintained, are particularly dangerous.
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With parallel highways being paved, jitneys were inroading into profits.
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Jamal and I stand on the distressed street waiting for a jitney.
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The Hampton Jitney has an Ambassador Service, which is infinitely more comfortable than the regular jitney.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? Everybody Sleeps Where? In the Hamptons Part 1
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Even before the automobile became ubiquitous, competition arose from other modes of transportation like the jitney, an automobile that carried passengers for a nickel along routes that ran parallel to the trolley line.
Matthew Yglesias » The American Urban Paradox
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Depending on where you roam, your transportation may range from the ultramodern, like the high-speed trains of Japan, to the traditional, like the eccentric jitneys of the Philippines or the gondolas of Venice.
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Setting a boot on one of the dilapidated benches, Cameron glanced at the old jitney terminal behind the airport.
MINUTES TO BURN
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Some city associations might also provide public transit such as street cars, without excluding private alternatives such as vans and jitneys.
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As he spoke a cab appeared, a grimy little robot jitney with the other Twin in the back.
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In specific trades, such as jitney services, government officials have created relatively pragmatic licensing requirements that help to foster growth and opportunity.
Chron.com Chronicle
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Couldn't jitneys supply a better and cheaper alternative?
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One of my happiest discoveries was that of the jitney and other forms of non-regulated motorised transport.
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“A jitney we were on last night, a real broken-down old flivver.”
DIAMOND RUBY
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When I called to find out why, they couldn't tell me more than "the old stop was dangerous" (it had been there for over 50 years & no accidents) & that as a certified cripple, I could call the LIFT jitney to get me at home - That's fine deluxe service, but it costs TriMet over $20 per person per trip, & I would pay less than 10% of that.
The railroading continues (Jack Bog's Blog)
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We took a jitney to a big pre-Christmas fair at the park.
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Other than the jitneys that run around the island, there is no public transportation.
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At the ferry landing in Luanda Kotieno, a town of about 6,500 people, Walter Omondi, 20, just out of high school and working as a helper on a little, skinny water jitney with a small outboard motor, said he had tried drinking water straight from the lake.
In East Africa, Selling Drinking Water Straight From the Pond
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A guided jitney along up the river gave us an overview.
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Considering more than 80% of all commuter trips are between areas outside downtown, priority should be given to more flexible, less costly systems such as rapid commuter bus lines, bus rapid transit, as well as subsidized dial-a-ride and jitney services that can work between suburban centers.
Mass Transit: The Great Train Robbery
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Revised and polished over two decades, that work became "Jitney", part of an ambitious series of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century and all save one in the Hill District.
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A jitney is a sort of cross between a bus and a taxi.
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What she created is closer to an upscale Manhattan law office than to even the finest jitney.
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And if there were lots of roads, would they be used mostly to transport people by bus, by jitneys and by taxi, or by privately owned car as now?
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We shopped at the same Jitney Jungle and sometimes we would both be choosing apples from the same pile in the produce department.
Eudora Welty (copy)
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They deliver our newspapers, drive jitneys, deliver pizzas and perform similar tasks that make our lives easier but for which we pay relatively little.
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The windward coast jitney dropped him off on the road above the cottage at dusk.
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After lunch, Marvin usually takes another vehicle home and catches a jitney back to the truck to close it.
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“A jitney we were on last night, a real broken-down old flivver.”
DIAMOND RUBY
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In the "jitney," as Mr. Merkel dubbed his auto, several cowboys from Diamond X (including the veteran foreman Slim) reached Happy
The Boy Ranchers on the Trail
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He's 30 now, and he runs a jitney service in Atlantic City.
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Inside the station, the key prop is a telephone which rings constantly throughout the play and influences the comings and goings of the jitney station.
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As he spoke a cab appeared, a grimy little robot jitney with the other Twin in the back.
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Cars will be banned, and transportation within the sequestered ‘campus’ will take the form of bicycles and electric jitneys.
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In lieu of normal public transport, it boasts jitneys - pale blue buses resembling bread trucks - and rolling chairs propelled by people power.
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As he spoke a cab appeared, a grimy little robot jitney with the other Twin in the back.
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Finally I chose the most friendly-looking man and climbed into a taxi, which was actually a jitney.
