A SPECIAL REPORT ON TRANSPORTATION : This Dedicated Bus Rider Commutes to the Beat of a Different Drummer

Don’t try to tell Jon Paul Duchnick about the merits of driving a car to work. He wants no part of freeways, automobiles or traffic jams.

Duchnick is quite content to leave the driving to someone else, thank you. In fact, Duchnick doesn’t even own an automobile.

“And I don’t really even want to,” he said, folding a newspaper as he waited for his bus on a recent morning.

“It’s too expensive,” said Duchnick, 22, who commutes from Anaheim to his job at Knott’s Berry Farm.

His total round-trip expense is only $1.60 and he figures a car would not save him much time, if any.

Duchnick has ridden the bus for about 5 months, since he began working at Knott’s. Before that he worked at Disneyland. Then, too, he was a rebel without a car. His home was so close to his job at the Anaheim amusement park that he was able to walk to work.

But his favorite ride is the Orange County Transit District bus trip that allows him time to unwind and to make friends en route home and to work.