• 1 Mahoe Drive, Kingston 11 Jamaica, West Indies

Monday, June 9, 2008

Kingston Transportation

What can I say? Horns honking all the time. Taxi drivers shouting out the area they are going to. People grabbing your arm to try and pull you to their taxi. School children all over the place on the buses, holding each other's backpacks out the windows of moving buses, yelling for an hour straight. Fitting eight people into a five person vehicle. Sitting on strange people's laps. Having strange people sit on your lap. Putting your arm up around someone you don't know because it won't fit anywhere. Sweat, reggae, R&B, close shaves with other automobiles. Street fights between taxi drivers as they try to "steal" passengers from each other. This is all part of Kingston living when you use public transportation. The following video put up on youtube.com by a short term volunteer we took around doesn't show it all...but it gives you a little of the flava'! Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rm1IM1At88

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