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Editorial | Late-night BU bus

Partying while the T sleeps

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  December 17, 2011

For a city full of college students, Boston’s nightlife is famously dull. But now a start-up is taking aim at one of the biggest obstacles to a night on the town by offering a safe, cheap way for BU students to get back to campus. Boston Nightlife Express allows clubgoers to stay out until bars close at 2 a.m. Hopefully, the initiative will spread to other colleges. The Hub may never become the city that never sleeps - but it doesn’t have to go to bed quite so early, either.

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