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Mass transit, as we know it, is a little different in Jamaica. There is a proper bus system in and around the nation's capital city Kingston run by the Jamaica Urban Transit Company. Even here, however, transport is dominated by small private operators who drive taxis, minibuses, and small vans. After the taxis (which are mostly imported Japanese cars and are absolutely everywhere), minibuses are the most prominent of these. They line up at key transport centers all day long (but especially at rush hour) and shuttle arguably the bulk of Jamaica's working population at peak commuting times. Fully loaded machinese like these are the norm on a Jamaican rush hour, speeding up and down main throughfares on pre-planned routes. They are often owner operated, and decorated creatively by a few enterprising operators. These minibuses are almost exclusively Japanese. The Japanese have masrtered the minibus, with several manufacturers creating small buses capable of carrying 25-30 people. These are wildly popular in Jamaica and many other developing nations because they are very reliable, efficient for their size/capacity, easily maintained, and not hard to acquire second hand from Japan or elsewhere in the developed world. Nissan (the Civilian), Mitsubishi (the Rosa) and Toyota (the Coaster) make the most prominent examples of buses in this genre, but the Coaster is pretty much the king of this realm. It is by far the most popular and well known example of this kind of minibus, and also the most heavily copied - several Chinese companies (Golden Dragon probably the most prominent of them) build, export, and sell replicas of the Coaster around the world. Coasters have been in production since 1969, with the most recent Fourth Generation model introduced in 2016. These are all third generation models, the most commonly seen globally. These videos also tell you the full story (literally everything you need to know, no detail left untouched) about Jamaican emission regulations - here it is:
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| Author | Jason Lawrence from New York |
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