This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter
By Anthony Buccino
If you ever commuted to work, you'll enjoy your ride reading
Anthony Buccino's latest collection "This Seat Taken? Notes of a HaplessCommuter" about the joys and follies of getting to and from work in the
city using public transit.
Buccino's bus and rail commuting tales and observations are collected in this new 224-page book which is available in print, on Amazon and Nook.
Buccino's bus and rail commuting tales and observations are collected in this new 224-page book which is available in print, on Amazon and Nook.
Buccino spent 12 years editing business news copy at Dow
Jones & Co. for the Ticker, NewsPlus and The Wall Street Journal
professional web pages in Jersey City and later at the NewsCorp building in the
Times Square district of mid-town Manhattan.
For his first year working in Jersey City, Buccino actually
drove the 12 miles each way to work and home. An average commute would take 20
minutes to reach the city and at least another 20 minutes to cross the city to
his parking lot near the Hudson River. It wasn't long before the crosstown
traffic and the monthly parking fee, nearly enough for a car payment, persuaded
the author to use mass transportation to get to work for the first time ever.
For 11 of those dozen years, he rode public transportation
including NJ Transit buses, Newark City Subway, Port Authority Trans Hudson's
PATH trains, the occasional NYC subway and DeCamp buses.
For five years, Buccino wrote about commuting and transit in
metro New York-New Jersey for NJ.com. His transit blog on NJ.com earned the New
Jersey Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism award. Many
of those blurbs are gathered in this collection.
