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Originally Posted by streetscaper
Yeah, here's a map someone made on the many different routes for the jitneys. Many of these routes have less than 1-minute headways during rush hour. I wouldn't be surprised if each region on the map carries around 100,000 commuters or more (at least the Jersey side). I too wonder if these are even counted.
EDIT: According to this article just the two easternmost Brooklyn and Queens routes transport 120,000 commuter a day with about 850 vans. There is no corresponding passenger number for the Jersey routes, but there are whopping 6,500 registered vans there according to wiki.
Interesting note: the routes west of the Hudson river are usually called jitneys, and east of the Hudson are called dollar vans.
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Oh, this is cool. And you see the jitney/dollar van routes roughly correspond with immigration patterns. The East Brooklyn routes are West Indian, the Queens routes are Chinese/SE Asian, and the Jersey routes are South American/Cuban. The SE Queens and NE Bronx routes are heavily Jamaican. The ridership, in 2020, is in many cases quite different, but these routes were originally established to serve specific immigrant communities.
The Orthodox/Hasidic community also has a large network of private buses running regular routes, that are open to the public, but gender segregated, with women in the back of the bus. In fact when you see Hasidics on public MTA buses, you see the women/children go to back of the bus, and men stay up front.
I wonder, too, how they count privatized transport not open to the public, like the Google buses in the Bay Area, or the Goldman Sachs ferries between Manhattan and Jersey.
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