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 If you ever commuted to work, you'll enjoy reading Anthony Buccino's latest collection "This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter" about the joys and follies of getting to and from work in the city using metropolitan public transit. 

 This Seat Taken - Notes of a Hapless Commuter by Anthony Buccino

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This Seat Taken? now on Kindle

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 Hapless Commuter" 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 on Amazon and Nook, and now on Kindle.

This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter

This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter
By Anthony Buccino

In Print and ebook

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 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.

A Commuter Tale (From Home)

BY ANTHONY BUCCINO

“Left a good job in the city … la-di-da-dah.” 

I wonder if Fogerty had to wait ten minutes for a bus, take a 45-minute ride – on a good day – and then walk uptown for about 15 minutes from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan dodging hundreds of early-rising tourists looking for the line in the skyline in Times Square from W. 42nd Street to W. 48th Street and Avenue of the Americas?

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This Seat Taken? Notes of a hapless commuter, by Anthony Buccino

THIS SEAT TAKEN? Notes of a Hapless Commuter

If you ever commuted to work, you'll enjoy this ride reading Anthony Buccino's latest collection "THIS SEAT TAKEN? Notes of a Hapless Commuter" about the joys and follies of getting to and from work in the city using public transit.

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 for a Media Affiliated blog. Many of those blurbs are gathered in this collection.

Commuters who knew he wrote for NJ.com would seek him out and tell him their commuter tales of woe. Often they would simply commiserate and try to see who had a worse ride in that day. But more than once, Buccino was button-holed after a scathing piece on, say, homeless people using subway stairwells as bathrooms, and told that it was cleaned up within hours of his writing about it online.

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Transit and transitions

Growing up in suburban New Jersey, our goal was to get a driver’s license, a car and drive to work to pay for the car, upkeep and insurance. After 17 and that magic piece of paper, everything else would fall into place.

It was rare in my old neighborhood that anyone actually took a bus to get to work. When my older sister worked as a keypunch operator at Mutual Benefit in Newark she walked out to the avenue to catch the bus to the Newark City Subway. That was the early 1960s as the first wave of Baby Boomers joined the workforce.

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Grousing about the NYC commute ... again

Anthony Buccino is at it again, commenting on his commute to or from New York City on public transportation.

Flying through the Lincoln Tunnel

Bus driver McGrumplesteen at your service

Getting lost & found at NJ Transit

Happy trails, he says!

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Blogging on Transit

Would-Be Passenger 26 On The 199

By Anthony R Buccino
April 15, 2010, 8:45AM

Heading home after a long busy day at work, you hustle and push your way through the crowds of tourists and slow-pokes, walking as fast as you can without looking like you're rushing or about to break a sweat. One thing on your mind, get to the bus terminal and get on the bus and get home. Is that three things or one? No time to think about it, it's going home time.

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