The occasional taxi and police car also appeared.
Many people on South Beach just use their feet, or the occasional taxi, to get around.
One could travel for blocks and see only a city bus or an occasional taxi.
That seems a far cry from just a few years ago when the only diesels were lorries, buses and the occasional taxi.
The streets here were wide, littered with deep potholes, and largely empty except for clots of dark-garbed pedestrians, the occasional rushing taxi, and rattling trollies.
If you add the cost of an occasional chartered taxi, decent food and the entrance fee to Petra, the cost per day for a budget-minded traveller is about JD15.
I am happy to take the subway, although the occasional taxi would probably be necessary.
The streets are empty; the only noise breaking up the silence is an occasional taxi cruising toward Union Square.
The branch was formally closed in 2001 and services were replaced by a bus, and then by an occasional taxi.
And taking the occasional taxi.