In today’s world, we all know what Uber and Lyft is and what they provide, and many cities with highly established and regulated taxi systems have waged constant war against them - I am definitely thinking of NYC. But did you know that these cities had the same issues, just many decades before you were born? A jitney is the name of a taxi that operated outside of municipal regulations, the word stemming from the slang word for nickel, which is what the ride originally cost.

Atlanta's jitneys only operated legally for 4 years in the firsts half of the 1920s, while waiting for the determination of a court case that would decide their fate. 

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