Stuart Kerachsky of Princeton
So all of the fuss about moving the Dinky station is about a possible walk comparable to the “trek” from Small World Coffee to the Princeton Public Library? (See the story in The Princeton Packet last Friday). We focus on the most trivial things.
The proposed move of the station is part of the university’s plan to create a coherent arts and transit area, and along the way deal with the traffic and pedestrian snarl in the area of Wawa and the Dinky station. Where else in the civilized world (or the less civilized world) would a walk the distance of a moderate-size city block be considered a burden, and who else would consider the current Dinky station a “community asset” worthy of blocking a nicely reconfigured arts and transit area?
And just how many people walk to the Dinky and where do they come from? Besides the campus itself, how many come from the large graduate student and faculty housing complexes off of Alexander Road that would actually be closer to the new station?
There is much for our public officials to protect in Princeton, but let’s not start with the current location of the Dinky station.
Stuart Kerachsky
Dogwood Hill
Princeton
