460 feet.
That’s the distance the Dinky Station would move toward Princeton Junction if the University has its way.
But ever since the University announced in 2006 its intention to move the Dinky Station to make room for the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, Borough officials and residents have been up in arms about the proposed relocation. Aside from the perennial debate over the University’s tax-exempt status, the Dinky relocation is shaping up to be the major friction point in town-gown relations.
The controversy came up again recently when Borough residents elected Jenny Crumiller and reelected Kevin Wilkes to the Borough Council last week. The two Democrats stated their opposition to the Dinky relocation in the run-up to the election. Despite the opposition, University officials have not signaled any intention to back away from its proposed project.
Watch Pulitzer Prize-winning Professor Paul Muldoon (Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts) and VP Bob Durkee duke it out with Borough Councilman Andrew Koontz, former Borough Mayor Marvin Reed, and Triangle Repro Center owner Bob Howard.
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To the Ink and University Press Club: nicely presented!
Meanwhile … Six months after this report, a movement is afoot by the Planning Board and NJ Transit, with Princeton University’s endorsement, to persuade elected representatives of the two Princeton municipalities to discontinue the ‘Dinky’, tear up its tracks, and replace the century-and-a-half rail service with buses (euphemistically so-called ‘BRT”) — a tremendous degradation of a public conveyance that would irreversibly diminish the character of the town, region, University.
Beware of your summertime haitus when this is likely to be presented for a swift vote without public dialogue!
[…] requiring a longer walk for passengers using the train whose final destination is in town. A good summary of the debate was posted by the University Press Club, in which Princeton residents state that moving the Dinky station is unnecessary and unhelpful, and […]