Quincy sues to block bridge to Long Island

By adamg - Thu, 02/06/2025 - 4:21pm

The city of Quincy today moved its battle against a new Long Island Bridge into court, asking a judge to overturn the state's approval of Boston's proposed bridge reconstruction, which would let Boston rebuild the addiction-treatment facilities it used to run on the island. Read more.

As Mass and Cass becomes an encampment again, Boston wins state approval to rebuild the Long Island Bridge

By adamg - Thu, 08/10/2023 - 10:12am

The state Department of Environmental Protection yesterday granted Boston the permit it needs to rebuild the Long Island Bridge, which will let it re-open Long Island as a recovery and treatment campus. Read more.

Court to Quincy: Boston can rebuild its bridge to Long Island

By adamg - Mon, 07/25/2022 - 10:52am

Boston can rebuild the bridge to Long Island, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled, upholding a state decision to allow the project despite implacable opposition from the city of Quincy. Read more.

Election roundup: Wu says a bridge is not the answer to Boston's addiction problems; two unions make endorsements

By adamg - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 10:20am

The Boston Sun reports that Michelle Wu has come out against rebuilding the bridge to Long Island, saying the money would be better and more quickly spent on things that can be done now, instead of waiting for Quincy to finally yell uncle and stop fighting in court. Read more.

Quincy sues to block return of Long Island Bridge; says new bridge could prove as likely to fall into the sea as the old one

By adamg - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 3:11pm

Quincy today sued the state in an effort to overturn its approval of Boston's plans to rebuild the Long Island Bridge, saying the state should hold all new hearings that would prove Quincy's assertions the new bridge would prove as unsafe as the one torn down in 2015, that it would become useless as sea levels rise and that the road leading to the bridge on Moon Island is itself in imminent danger of collapse. Read more.

State overturns Quincy rejection of Long Island Bridge

By adamg - Sat, 06/08/2019 - 10:28am

Mayor Marty Walsh says the state has overturned the Quincy Conservation Commission's rejection of the proposed bridge to Long Island, because "Boston's proposal meets the performance standards under the Wetlands Protection Act and minimizes impacts to coastal wetland resources in both Boston and Quincy." Read more.