Jitneys

==Background ==
===Links Elsewhere===
* Jitney from Wikipedia
* Jitney Drivers News from the P-G on Dec. 24, 2005
==Jitneys provide cab-like services where cabs don't frequent.==
Jitneys are an efficient, private, market-based solutions. These neighborhood-based transportation options are operated by small businessmen. Allowing jitneys would make sense for minority investments in poor communities. Jitneys could create employment. 
:In Pittsburgh's South Side, one can often find some jitneys at the parking lot entrance to the Giant Eagle, grocery store. The jitney drivers take people to and from the store. 
PAT began a new bus line, the 84A, to service the upper hill, Oakland and the South Side. The bus stop is right at the jitney hang-out. 
===Monopoly efforts===
The state has given a monopoly to one cab company. We need to watch and try to avoid monopoly situations.
A jitney is a livery vehicle intermediate between a taxi and a bus. It is generally a small-capacity vehicle that follows a rough service route, but can go slightly out of its way to pick up and drop off passengers.
== Elsewhere ==
While jitneys are fairly common in many less wealthy countries (such as the Philippines), they have also appeared in the past in some wealthier countries. For example, in Vancouver, Canada, in the 1920s, jitneys competed directly with the streetcar monopoly, operating along the same routes as the streetcars but charging lower fares. They were so successful that the city government banned them at the request of the streetcar operator.
After the oil crisis of 1974, jitneys began to reappear in some areas of the bastion of the private automobile, the United States, though their entrepreneurial, non-corporate and unregulated nature made many legislatures uneasy.
=== Some US jurisdictions the limit to a jitney is seven passengers. ===
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* We can find better ways to allow jitneys to operate in safe ways within Pittsburgh.
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* welfare
* Taxi cabs