It's called ''Minibus'' in Turkey. It

>>1039717
No, I don´t live in Sweden.

>>1039717

We use Nissan Urvan/Toyota hiaces designed to carry 12 people. Retrofit the seats to accommodate 18 and then cram 21-24 in them.

Sometimes strangers sit in each other's laps.

t. West Indian

>>1039717
In my city we use Mitsubishi colts or Suzuki APVs as minibuses

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minibus in macau....

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>>1039795
Nah Macau's minibus vans with standing passengers is the real deal. Makes Hong Kong envy.

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>>1039717
>>1039851
A whole culture associated with minibus. Only hitch is a system independent and broken up with bus, stressing and fragmenting transit and transport system.

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Meanwhile in Canada...

>>1039851
can't imagine standing passengers on red minivans with the why how their drivers usually drive them. Those green one aren't much better either

>>1039876
That's the problem. Understandable safety is a chronic deficit. On long distance highway routes you don't want to be standing on minibus. Right now a particular niche for minibuses is high frequency short distance connecting/shuttle routes. The clear-cut cliff beyond 18 seats is unbridgeable. Surge capacity in the form of standing beats fleets of minibus overwhelming roads. All the talks about efficiency, not a single consensus on a vehicle combination flexible enough. Hong Kong had bigger minibuses and smaller buses before. Our favorite and in our favor to leave the choice to operators who should be competing and cooperating to a wider market.

>>1039739
>t. West Indian
>Sometimes strangers shit in each other's laps.

>>1039876
I've seen people sitting on the floor in a red minibus as well, it was one of the long distance ones at night.

>>1039914

West Indian as in Caribbean.

Not a Pudoo

>>1039918
Minibus floor better than bus staircases. Both illegal and risky.

>>1039853
That actually looks pretty fucking rad

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>>1039717
Not going to fuck off any time soon, tho the government is going to prohibits this "mini buses" to enter CBD once the BRT lines opens

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for the mobility impaired

>>1039717
>Is there any similar transportation in your country?
nope

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>everyone from school kids to grannies ride these

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This is not a special group of enthusiasts. This is the entire actual public transport

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>Sometimes strangers sit in each other's laps.

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Travelling to the neighboring land of Lippe is always an experience. Usually an unsettling one. Lippe is an area where bipedality had to be introduced by force of arms. The towns and hamlets of the Lippean hills are connected by these things (and worse). They are tiny - three seats and space for a wheelchair. They are often on-demand only, the timetables at the stop and online don't match up, and you are forced to socially interact with the Hillbilly driver just to tell them where you want to go.

It's pretty comfy to be honest.

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>>1040605
I guess I'm much rather talking about these things.

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Back in the 1970 these fuckers were used in a short shuttle line here in Frankfurt for a while. I don´t even.

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>>1040607
Today there are still minibusses used here, but they are used as granny shuttles in the villagey suburbs in the north of the city with all of their narrow shity streets. They are awfull.

yeah, there's rickshaws where i live, they're 3 seater mini-mini buses (2-3 people) . They're loud as fuck too.

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>>1039717
Indonesia

>>1040607
Looks like something from a 60s/70s science fiction series. Like Thunderbirds or UFO.

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Paris got these, they are pretty useful and cost effective since they run on special lines with low traffic and passager rides.

used to take these because of goat scenerie and shiz

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>>1040607
They were Austrian and a lot of them ran in the center of Wien too.
Anyway, this is what runs in Budapest, in the operation of BKV (BKK). We have three like this, and a bit older one, firstly used for carrying handicapped people. (There are also four which are stll used for that purpose.)

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>>1040722
The other one.

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>>1040723
And the ines for disabled.

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>>1040724
We also have some other ones which look actually like a bus: Ikarus 405s, Karsan Ataks and Modulo C68Es (the last ones are electric buses).
Here is a normal 405, just as they arrived.

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>>1040725
BKV had several modifications on the 405s (believe it, this wasn't a really successful bus). Here is a refurbished one.

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>>1040726
BKV also had two slightly longer ones, and two with the original length for disabled people, as a precedessor of the Renault Masters. The longer 405s are still running painted light blue and with a modified front, but with normal passengers.

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>>1040727
Here is one of the other buses, a Karsan Atak. BKV has 16 of this since 2015.

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>>1040729
And 20 of the other new ones, the Modulo C68E.

>>1040474
yeah they use the same kind of bus for small south shore towns

>>1039717
Sounds like an ordinary bus in every big city in the world thanks to multiculturalism, plus it also smells like nigger too.

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a lot of people ride these in thailand

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>>1040914

>>1039717
we got some small buses, but they never goes with opened doors.

>>1040914
>>1040915

We got those in Bequia but they are tourist taxis

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Does this count ?
It ws mounted on a truck chassis and there's a BRT door at the right

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These shit pieces of crap is the lifeline of the city i live in

We have these in Brooklyn and Queens. They parralel bus lines. They are called dollar vans.

>>1039853
that looks fucking cool

The only minibus use I see in the US is for uncomfortable guided tour rides and for taking special needs kids to school.

>>1041401
they literally just outprice MTA buses?

>>1041444
Yeah. Though they might not cover certain roues. The vans on Guy Brewer will go to the 5 Towns mall and go to Parsons-Archer subway. But going south they load at Guy Brewer between Jamaica and Archer Avenues. They leave when full.

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>>1041110
Hmm... I've seen that livery before...

>>1041640
Crouch End was a Stephen King story.

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we have these in barcelona. they usually run in the hilly parts. But they rarely fill up because the routes are slow and winding and few people use them.

>>1039852
The minibuses are ideal as last-mile transit solutions to a system's fringes but are horrible to serving as the backbone of a system, which should be a commuter heavy-rail lines.

>>1041859
word

>>1041669
Well you win todays round of "Recognising place names"

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This is a pesero in Mexico. They contaminate a shit ton and are crowded as hell.

>>1041859
South Africa's cities have a huge minibus system. They call them taxis there. It was early black enterprise there and still go on even with some improvements with BRTs in Joburg and Cape Town.

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>>1039717
Yes.

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I used to ride these as a child living in a rural village in Ecuador. They're called Chiva buses and are more known for originating in Colombia but can be found throughout South America. They're custom-made, each one is unique, being a creative take on a utilitarian function. As you can see, they're open-air and they generally ride on bumpy rural mountainous dirt roads. Sometimes people ride on the top cargo hold. It's downright dangerous but that's part of the thrill.

>>1042114

West Indian dude here.

We used to have those as well. Primarily Bedford 8 ton trucks retrofitted for passenger use. We called them "country bus"

They normally had some dead space in the back for sacks of produce and livestock

>>1040914
They are never filled to the brim tho. When its too full the driver sometimes dont even stop

>>1039722
>in Turkey

you're not very smart, are you

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>>1039717
this shit is huge, but saturday at 3 am there is no difference with that minibus

>>1043201
>he doesn't understand /pol/ banter.

Sweden is now Turkey or Somalia, take your pick.

>>1043206
>Metrobus