Boxes o' Bibles! Hitting up kids at the Woody Woo crosswalk this morning.
Looking for a way to survive midterms? Maybe Eternal Salvation’s your best bet…at least to hear the evangelicals out by Woody Woo Fountain with their boxes of free Scripture talk about it this morning.
Apparently they’ve also been politely prosthelytizing to Forbesians out by the Dinky this week. I’ll give them this: their lime green pocket-sized Bibles are pretty darn snazzy.
Snazzy.
Image via unigo.com.
This weekend, while you hop from tent to tent in the bizarre time machine that is Princeton Reunions, think about this: Probably everyone, at some point, rode the Dinky, or at least knows about it. Pretty crazy to think.
Which is why some of the reactions to the train’s possible replacement have been so vocal. You may know about the “Save the Princeton Dinky” Facebook group, or discussed the Dinky over dinner.
The Huffington Post ran a story yesterday on the debate and the discussion it’s sparked. Read it here.
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Since learning in March that the Dinky may be replaced by a bus, University students and Borough residents have expressed both support and opposition. The latest from the nay-sayers is a “Save the Princeton Dinky” Facebook page. In only 9 days, 825 people have already joined, including students, community members, and even pre-frosh (“Class of 2014 for the Dinky!!!”).
So what are the protesters complaining about?
For some, it’s practical. They say that switching from rail to bus would be expensive or inefficient and that a bus would get stuck in traffic. They worry that a bus would be too small to accommodate rush hour hoards or to fit students with suitcases during breaks. They point out that trains are more environmentally friendly and that wooded areas would need to be cut down to make room for two buses to pass each other on the Dinky route.
But for others, it’s about nostalgia and the mystique of Princeton:
Remember this. It could be the last thing you ever see.
If you were looking for some finals week levity, this is not the place to find it.
This is a tale of unadulterated rodent-based terror.
source: unigo.com
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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