From New Jersey: "I Am a Garbage Man For NJ Transit," by Jim Tosone

Published in the Sunday New York Times on September 21, 1997

Bad ideas often come camouflaged as good ideas, like when New Jersey Transit decides to upgrade something. This usually involves a shiny new piece of equipment that makes commuting even more difficult. Case in point: the fare-tracking machines that ride shotgun next to N.J. Transit bus drivers, machines that are in part responsible for my ancillary career as a garbage man for New Jersey Transit. (Read more here.)