Train or Bus? A Town Is Torn

[Lunican]

Dinky or Bus? A Town Is Torn



PRINCETON, N.J. â€" The run of the train known as the Princeton Dinky is both impressively long and unusually short. For 145 years, this rail link in a college town has ferried students and commuters over the briefest of distances. But Year 146 has not been kind to the nation’s shortest regularly scheduled commuter route, which travels a four-minute, 2.7-mile stretch of track between a small station at Princeton University and a larger one at Princeton Junction.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/nyregion/15metjournal.html

[Mattius92]

haha, wow even Princeton in smarter then Jacksonville. Probably even more useful then the Skyway too.

[LPBrennan]

I am amazed that the Dinky was still running. Hadn't really looked into it, I admit. Just assumed that such a Nineteenth Century oddity had been discontinued years ago. Still- there are a number of similar things we probably wish we still had...