Taxi!
If you want to avoid the hassle of consulting the map, consulting the bus charts, doing numerous transfers and hunting for a kiosk to buy a ticket, then a taxi is for you. Of course, it’s more expensive than the bus or the tram, but it does away with the inconveniences connected to the other public means of transport. But all in all, it’s not that expensive. There usually is a flag-down rate, with an additional fee for each tenth of a kilometer.
Dolmus
This is another version of the taxi. Like the normal taxi, these are yellow in color, but with a Dolmus sign at the top. This is actually like a bus, but in smaller proportions. There are definite routes and rates for every kind of dolmus. You share the taxi with other passengers. The usual number of passengers is 8. Prepare for a bit of a wait, as they will not leave until the taxi is filled up. And that is where the name dolmus came from. Dolmus is Turkish for “full”. The fare rate for the dolmus is usually higher than that of the buses. If you want to get off you can just say “inecek var”, which means this is my stop.
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