Shore Towers will offer jitney service to the subway and shopping streets beyond it.

To discourage people from driving to the train, Maplewood will soon start free rush-hour jitney service to and from the station.

One of them, Maplewood, came up with the idea of a jitney service six years ago.

New Jersey Transit has since embraced the idea and helped other communities start jitney services.

The territory must have seemed remote, for advertisements for the apartments promised private jitney service.

Ms. Kennedy said that this gated, community offers two tennis courts, a marina, pool and jitney service to the train station.

A jitney service would provide local transportation.

A free bus and jitney service would operate in Midtown, the city's most congested area.

Like several other towns along the train line, Maplewood operates a jitney service for residents living too far away to walk to the train.

The one-story ranch-style complex has a clubhouse and twice-a-day jitney service to shopping and other local points.