jitney

1 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.

2 But attendees had to figure out the jitney service and how to get from the terminal to the center and hotel.

3 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police say Bertha Moreno was driving a jitney bus Monday afternoon when an officer recognized the vehicle’s registration as a suspected toll evader.

4 By April the travelers finally reached Hungary, from which they could travel by jitney cabs and public transport links within the largely passport-free EU to Germany and France.

5 The measure also includes small changes to Houston's pedicab and jitney industries.

6 For she used the car as a jitney bus.

7 Some are braving the trains; others the jitney.

8 Following the accident in West New York, the Hudson County sheriff, Frank Schillari, announced what he called “a massive crackdown” on the jitney buses.

9 Police say Donahue was drunk when he drove the wrong way in the tunnel on Feb. 26 and collided with a jitney bus, injuring four of the 15 people on board.

10 Parking is limited, but the borough offers jitney service at $25 a month.

11 Even as late as the 1970s, jitneys, as they were called, were ferrying up to 7,000 people to and from downtown.

12 What did work for a time were the “trackless trolleys” of Laurel Canyon, wheeled jitneys operating on power from overhead lines.

13 The men who hang around the jitney office, mostly the drivers, are identifiable types, but they are never caricatures.

14 But the second the jitney turns into the South Fork, and I start to see trees, my shoulders drop.”

15 Did a similar trip a few years ago but took local jitney's, buses, trains, taxies, even a small plane.

16 Keelboats, jitney cars, horseless carriages, street cars, a railroad train, fire engine, skyway and even the Adm. Joe Fowler Sternwheeler on the Rivers of America all serve as people-movers.

17 Depending on their size and where they travel, jitney companies can be subject to regulatory oversight from an assortment of federal and state agencies.

18 Instead, Mr. Gasby wrote on his Facebook page, Ms. Smith, who has Alzheimer’s, got off the jitney and walked and traveled around the city for more than 17 hours.

19 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.

20 I couldn’t agree more with Brian Broome’s Nov. 9 Tuesday Opinion column, “So long, jitneys — and farewell to our connective tissue.”

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