Transportation - Within Amman

To reach locations within the city or to find the departure point for buses and service, ask a downtown shopkeeper—at a minimum, you’ll be pointed in the right direction, and quite possibly you’ll be escorted there. You can flag buses and service anywhere along their routes, but expect to wait quite a while before a vehicle with space for another biped creature stops. Public transportation stops about 8-9pm, and a couple of hours earlier than that on Fridays; after that, walking is the only alternative to the expensive regular taxis. These yellow, metered cabs prowl the streets in search of fares until I lpm, sometimes later.

Cabs charge 150fils plus about lOOflls per kilometer. The approximate cost to travel from downtown to Third Circle, or from Third to Sixth Circle, is 500fils. The trip from downtown to Abdali costs around 35Ofils. A taxi between the two bus/service stations (Abdul and Warhead, see intercity transportation below) should cost 800fils. Also, the trip along Jabal Amman, from the First to the Eighth Circles, should not cost more than 800fils. (See Transportation in Jordan Once There.)