Colectivo (fixed-route shared taxi)
Colectivo (taxi de recorrido fijo)
- Date
- 1928 · confidence high
- Place
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Credited to
- Buenos Aires taxi drivers (Manuel Pazos and others)
- Field
- Movement
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Taxis that, amid the crisis, began running a fixed route charging per passenger; they were soon fitted out as minibuses. It gave rise to the main means of urban transport in many Latin American cities.
Traditional date: 24 September 1928. The 'jitneys' of the United States (1914) were a similar, earlier phenomenon.
What it led to
- the colectivo network of Buenos Aires
- combis, peseros and 'jitneys' across Latin America