There are pretty frequent buses that go down route 6 in Johnston to within a few blocks of the train station. The commuter rail takes about an hour to South Station, and Amtrak is around 45 minutes. To me, that beats the hell out of driving to Boston.

It's because the walk lights at that intersection do not work. The light is green, but it still says do not walk. So even though you're right in the middle of a dense city, you're forced to scurry across the street like a rat. I often walk from near the Hot Club to Wickenden, and it's so goddamn stressful and dangerous.

Kingston Station is ten miles down the tracks from Wickford, and is nearly adjacent to URI, a university with 18,000 students. But instead of just running the trains there, to a station that already exists, linking the state's largest university with its largest city, they spent tens of millions of dollars on a train to a giant parking lot in the middle of nowhere.