Our game ended about 7:20, so I'm going to ride home on the Delaware and Raritan Canal tow path. There's construction on the Princeton Pike which starts about 6:30pm and goes through the night. I'd just as soon not deal with single lane traffic and flagmen! Here's the canal looking to the south. It started service in 1830, five years after the Erie Canal. It's main reason for existence was to ship coal from Pennsylvania to New York City. With the canal, boats didn't have to go around Cape May.
Even though it's no longer used for transport, it provides Delaware River water to central Jersey water companies. Someone will be drinking some of this water soon! The water is taken out of the Delaware at Bulls Island and transported south to Trenton via the Delaware and Raritan feeder canal that runs along the Delaware. (This is far enough up stream that there is enough head that it's downhill from Trenton to New Brunswick! So only one source of water is needed to keep the canal full.)
