Boston's late-night revolution won't be starting on Brighton Avenue in Allston

Not many restroom available at that time, we cant have people defecating in the streets.

Allston Civic Association said there was no need for tacos to be served in the area

Strange, I'd have left tacos off my list of "Things Allston Doesn't Need" but included the ACA. Guess the world don't move to the beat of just one drum.

The judge decides that every member of the board and their first born to be drawn and quartered on the morrow!

The ACA members and their immediate families are to be placed in stocks at Ringers Park and smacked in either end with skateboards.

As I mentioned, you need a whole night life 'ecosystem' in place to make this fond hope work.

Once habitats are identified, you start with late night food. Let's assume this is mainly a weekend thing as we don't have as many nocturnal trust fund layabouts as NY does.

Will a food purveyor want to handle the added hours and risk?

Okay, the drunks are now at a food place. The ethanol is getting buffered.

Now we have to get em home and the T is the preferred option since we can't very well encourage herd level drunk driving. What's the cost/benefit on that?

Some swells will take cabs instead as is the case now. Cabbies will probably benefit most as the wee hours are pretty bleak for them now.

And really extending restaurant hours can't be that painful. There probably are a reasonable number of non drunks who are night owls or your various gack and meth bingers.

What do they have now and where is it?

Are they going to send teams from this august council of 24 down to New Orleans and NYC for field study? Maybe they can join all the hogs shuttling back and forth to Vegas to 'study' gambling.

This will be the fun part.

Should there be any thought to added drunk safety features in these designated slobber zones or will we continue to leave weird death traps like dark waterfronts without railing?

Any thoughts on Patrol allocations to handle the new bursts of activity where scuttling alley rats once ruled the roost?

The details and their quality will be how you tell whether this is fluff to pander to the young and restless or they really are serious and have a clue.

What New York has along with every other 24 hour city is a real, breathing night economy. So much of the work on the infrastructure, waste removal, international business/trading are done at night in New York that there is a natural vibrancy in some neighborhoods that is mostly-to-somewhat sober. All these workers create real demand for restaurants and bars open around the clock (not to mention bodegas, subways, buses). These businesses do not rely on drunks. A restaurant filled with drunks at 3 in the morning is annoying anywhere and bound to lead to drug dealing, fights, and street defecation. Most places would kick out obnoxious drunks in NY no matter what the time. Creating a night economy that revolves around drunks is nonsense. Find the neighborhood where workers get off work at midnight to 5am and you can start to build. I can think of anywhere in Boston, maybe the Gillette factory?

The ACA hates people from Allston Village telling the folks who live north of the Mass Pike what they should have in their neighborhood. It's quite ironic, then, that they have absolutely no problem telling the people south of the Pike what they "need" and "don't need".

I went to ACA meetings when I lived in Allston, and I don't think I've ever seen a group set up to stifle dissent and discourage young residents from getting involved in civic activities. They require you to attend so many of their meetings per year in order to even have a vote on an issue. And most of those meetings are a complete waste of two hours of young people's time, listening to crotchety people rant on and on incessantly about how new condo and apartments and students are ruining the neighborhood. The group seriously needs to pack it in or change their name to "North Allston Civic Association".