Register To ParticipateB-line service disrupted, seek alternate routes
After the last B-line train last night jumped the track and caught fire, crews from the MBTA still on-hand this morning to remove the two-car trolley from the intersection of Chestnut Hill Ave and Commonwealth. The train is stuck parallel to Commonwealth and entirely blocking the intersection with Chestnut Hill, causing major delays and rerouting [...]
Is city really siding with neighbors on BC plans?
Is the BRA just going through the motions to appease BC neighbors?
I’m sure this idea — put somewhat bluntly by the poster “Eagle 1″ at the end of the Boston Herald story — has crossed all of our minds. Hopefully it’s not true.
City sides with neighbors on BC plans
The Boston Redevelopment authority has listened to neighbors concerns and is asking Boston College to consider not using the its Brighton campus to build dormitories. Here’s the Globe’s story.
BC Task Force to meet weekly
The Boston College Task Force will meet weekly throughout January to discuss the school’s Institutional Master Plan. At each meeting, the Task Force will discuss a certain topic of the plan. The schedule is as follows:
Jan. 8 - Athletic facilities
Jan. 16 - Traffic, transportation and parking
Jan. 22 - Housing
Jan. 29 - Open space, academic use [...]
No BC meeting next week
The Boston College Task Force meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 20 has been pushed back to Tuesday, Dec. 4. The agenda for the meeting will concern BC’s institutional master plan.
The meeting will still be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Brighton Marine Health Center, 77 Warren St., Brighton. Jeanne Levesque, director of government relations for BC, [...]
300
No, not the movie about the Spartans, but 300 students caught partying. From this week’s police log:
Police assigned to patrol with Boston College Police broke up a party at 20 South St. at 2 a.m. on Nov. 4 where there were about 300 party-goers, police said. All eight lessees were BC students and were underage [...]
BC files master plan amendment
As discussed at the Sept. 18 Boston College Task Force meeting, BC has filed an amendment with the Boston Redevelopment Authority to renovate buildings on the former Archdiocese of Boston property that the school purchased earlier this year. The renovations will be made on Bishop Peterson Hall and the St. John’s Seminary Library to [...]
BC master plan online
Boston College launched it’s institutional master plan website yesterday, which can be found at www.bc.edu/imp or http://www.vhb.com/bostoncollege/imp/default.asp.
Right now you can find a map of BC’s long-term campus vision, artist renderings of proposed buildings and minutes from past BC Task Force meetings.
Shame on Boston College
We received an email today from Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn pointing out that Steve Costello, a resident who was recently kicked out of a B.C. task force meeting for creating a disturbance, was reportedly arrested several years ago for an incident which, as best I can tell, had nothing to do with [...]
