Here is an excerpt from 'Sunset Negril' that talks about route taxis . . .
When Danika reached the road it was almost one o’clock. The skies to the south were threatening rain. She waved down a route taxi which took her to her hotel, only five minutes down the road from the aerodrome.
There is no mass transit system in Negril. But there exists a very effective public transportation system, called route taxis, that makes it easy to get around.
A route taxi is a private conveyance that has been licenced to operate between two points, for example; Green Island and Negril. Route taxis ply the roads between their designated limits, collecting and dropping off passengers who pay a set fare for the route segment. There is no regular schedule and there are no taxi stands. Travellers simply wait on the side of the road and wave a taxi down as it approaches. Then, when approaching their desired drop-off point, which can be anywhere along the route, they ask the driver to stop. If a passenger wants to go further than the limit of the route, they disembark at its termination, usually a parking lot, and get on a taxi that services the next segment. In this manner it is possible to travel the entire width and breadth of Jamaica.
Busy routes are serviced by many route taxis. A passenger doesn’t normally have to wait longer that a minute or two for a taxi to happen by. However, during off-hours and in remote areas, it’s another story.
Danika’s hotel, The Hummingbird, was familiar to her. She’d previously stayed there with her father and Kate on several occasions. The hotel property straddled the beach road. Rooms were located on both the beach and the garden sides of the road. The office was on the garden side.
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