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I stayed at a town in Turkey, Trabzon I think, where the whole town seemed to run on a related concept - the "taxibus". It was very low tech, based purely on fl
by ZoFreX 13y ago
I stayed at a town in Turkey, Trabzon I think, where the whole town seemed to run on a related concept - the "taxibus". It was very low tech, based purely on flagging down a taxibus that looked like it was going the right way, but it worked extremely well. Price was reasonable, the town was full of them so it was easy to get a ride, and you got exactly where you were going unlike with a bus. I've been wanting to see a higher tech version for larger towns / cities ever since.
- bwilliams18 13y agoIn Johannesberg they have the same system, except there are specific hand signals to flag down a cab based on where you're going. Its incredibly Low-Tech, but it works incredibly well.
- jpatokal 13y agoYup, that's a dolmuş, aka a share taxi, and variations of the concept exist across most of the less developed world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi