Word: jitneys
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...broker in the Westwood office of Merrill Lynch. "It's amazing that I didn't hit anyone." Using the rear-view mirror, many men shave with electric razors and women often apply their makeup. Some people even dress behind the wheel. Janice Conover, a Hampton Jitney Co. bus driver who regularly plies the Long Island Expressway (popularly known as the Long Island Parking Lot), has seen motorists so engrossed in the morning newspaper that they drift from one lane toward another, luckily at minimal speed...
...rhino charging. The driver waits until the last instant to flick the steering wheel to the left (British rules, drive on the left -- Did Moses derive the left-handed theory from that?) to swerve around the onrushing bus. The wildest animal on the road is the matatu, a jitney designed to carry about eight passengers. Instead, it customarily holds 20 Africans or more, some spilling out the back door, hanging on with one arm. The matatu is a hurtling metal beast with people in its belly, an event of nature on the highways. "Aieee! Aieee! Matatu!" Matatu owners have...
...There was some clubs you could play twelve hours straight with no break. That was called working a jitney job. One guy at a time would go to the bathroom and somebody would cover for him. There was a lot of strange things back then...
...Allowing city cab drivers to operate a "jitney" service, picking up more than a single passenger at a time...
More important, though, are the signs of a new kind of life in Soweto, a spirit that is not limited to political consciousness. Despite the poverty and the joblessness, there are small tokens of enterprise in the townships. Residents are buying hulks of old cars to start their own jitney taxi service. Women are organizing neighborhood communal food-growing projects and day-care centers. People are buying transistors, tape decks and television sets, as if suddenly eager to latch onto a few small pleasures of life. There is champagne in the shebeens, and the chef in Soweto...