Uber is an inventive way of showing how new technology can provide us with cheaper and more efficient transportation, but did you know the concept of Shared Taxi has been around for a century![1]
Jitney was known as a (5 cent) nickel in the States, since 1914 the mass production of auto-mobiles led to the rise of private taxi services which would cost as little as 5 cents. Jitneys had all the features for rapid transit:
- Rapid entry and exit
- Adaptation of demand
- Better alternative to peak time traffic
- Accessible to all routes
Majority of the operators of jitneys were simply picking up passengers along the way to work or other trips. Jitney out-competed the street railways in major US cities. Consequently, to prevent the shame of the cross subsidization of public street railways, many cities began to destroy the jitney business by artificially increasing the need for private…
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