South Boston councilor says it might be time to move the parade somewhere else, rather than letting drunken out-of-town hellraisers destroy the neighborhood every March

Broadway is always closed during the parade. Riders are told to use Andrew and South Station

so he gets to talk about it and people should listen, even if they disagree with his proposed solution.

Your continued open hatred (and agreeing to physical harm) of Irish American city councilors is like your existence, pathetic.

Go back to whatever rural town you grew up in and breed Labradoodles.

I'll stay up all night to be sure I won't miss it and to get a good spot. Might also bring some stuff with me to help pass the time while I patiently wait for the festivities to begin. Might bring some friends too for the company.

Except for the knitting and petting cats festival where they serve saltines and unflavored seltzer. That one's totally ok.

Pro tip; actually research the city before posting about what sorts of events and celebrations it does or does not have. Hint; Boston is over 300 years old. There are a lot of them!

Nobody else wants it. Literally nobody.

He doesn't do talking about options, he does bullying, ignorance, and dominion-seeking.

To be an attention-whoring (expletive), for which there are no longer consequences.

Acting a fool in a Southern state gets you shot. Few are threatened by that in Massachusetts.

I was there for a conference the night in 2010 when a last minute field goal put the Saints into the Superbowl.

The city erupted into a massive raucous midnight street party. Businesses reopened to sell "go" beers and toxic waste slurpees, trucks with bands and people with boom boxes roamed the French Quarter and Downtown area. Couple of drunk students threw purple and gold beads around my neck so I'd "look more party". Heavy drinking, WhoDat chanting, fried chicken vendors, brass bands on wheels, and even the odd bit of scarcely concealed fornicating took over the streets.

The city's response? Other than to turn the area streets into a maze with some barricades to keep people from driving at real speed and a few cops wandering about, there wasn't much response at all - just let 'er rip. Wandering through the rolling good time was of the most wonderfully surreal nights of my life.

I was up fairly early the next morning to get to the conference. Some people were still partying and drinking. People were sleeping where they dropped in some places. Businesses opening for the day put out "wet floor" pylons to spare passers-by the barf and waste puddles. There was a cleanup crew throwing stuff into a garbage truck, but a lot of the cleanup fell to the merchants with mops and hoses.

TL/DR: I think partying on a massive scale is just such a big part of the culture that there doesn't seem to be any planning involved at all - just response. There is no "in control". That would be very hard to translate to Boston.

There were more bars along Broadway (and neighborhood wide) years ago then there are now. I don't think they're a big source of trouble.

Agreed. The bars aren't the source of the trouble because they're strongly incentivized to prevent their patrons from getting dangerously intoxicated and/or acting like animals. The flask of fireball that some 18 year old has under his coat isn't controlled by anything but said 18 year old's (probably nonexistent) judgment.

I don't think there is a solution short of fixing this country's attitude towards alcohol and getting drunk. Alcohol is legal; moreover, it's easy to make on your own. You'll never get that genie back in the bottle, insofar as it ever was, and you can't ever regulate and police it enough to make the problem go away. That's not to say we shouldn't regulate or police it at all -- making bars responsible to a degree for what their patrons do after they leave has saved lives. But the problem is that people want to consume alcohol, and I'm not talking about an occasional beer or glass of wine at dinner. I'm talking about people feeling like getting shitfaced is a good thing. Alcohol use, and particularly overconsumption, is seen in such a positive light. It's a rite of passage. It's an essential part of a good time. It's what you do to relax. It's what you've earned after a hard day. People have an emotional connection to it and they cling to it very strongly. They turn to it when they're feeling bad or want to feel good. I saw so much problem drinking during the early stages of covid, among people who I would have expected to know better. But emotional reactions short-circuit logic and rationality. I pulled the coats of a few of those people, and that worked. But on a larger scale, if we don't want people being drunken fools, we need to change the reasons why they choose to be drunken fools.