At your servees



I love share taxis
. I didn’t know it before going to Beirut, but the red license plate that screams “at your servees” puts a smile on my face.

And for those not in the know, servees – which is probably spelled service but sounds the way I spell it – is the name given to Lebanon’s share taxis
. Flag one down and state your destination. A nod of the head and you’re in, a wave of the hand leaves you in the lurch
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You see, the services of the servees comes with certain conditions, mainly that the cabbie, and the rest of his passengers, are headed in your general direction

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. The servees is not a taxi in the Western, sanitized sense of the world, a private chauffeur service paid for by the hour, the mile or the minute. It is a collective effort, bringing you (close) to your destination, but probably making a few stops and detours along the way, picking up and setting off other passengers along the way

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Beirut streetview
Watching Beirut pass by from the backseat of a Mercedes servees taxi.

Add to this that the odds of catching a beat-up old Peugeot or a Renault 12 among the  gleaming white Kias is still pretty good. And of course there’s that staple of Middle Eastern semi-public transportation: the late-seventies or early-eighties Mercedes sedan. In desert colours ranging from a light beige, through increasingly dark browns to nearly maroon, these German classics are still to be seen on Beirut’s roads in various states of repair. In all fairness, one driver pointed out – when he somehow realised that the backseat passengers were talking about tha stste of his car, even if we were doing so discreetly and in Norwegian – pointed out that his car was good as long as the roads were good. That loud clanking noise that accompanied every left turn was apparently only an indication of poor road surface and had nothing to do with his magnificent machine
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So what do you get if you do as the locals and get in on the servees action? A taxi that charges a flat rate per trip and a fraction – one fifth to be precise – of a regular taxi. However, you may be asked for double servees if your journey is a bit on the long side, but at 4,000 rather than 2,000 lebanese pounds – 8 instead of 4 Norwegian kroner – a ride in a servees is a bargain as well as a potential adventure.

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