A bus that goes where you want it to

The developed world ‘discovers’ the mini-bus. In the Virgin Islands we called these dollar taxis (or dollar cabs?, some people called them ‘safari buses,’ they were these structures bolted to the back of pickup trucks, on the bench 10-15 people could sit facing each other) and a physicist once studied the patterns of minibus transport systems and found that they were more efficient than anyone had hitherto realized. I’ve always found their presence particularly noticeable in the US, though I...