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fi South THK BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE DECEMBER 21, 1997 Norwood chief off to chase new challenge 59 Temple Place 2nd Floor, Boston Phone: 542-0992 Hrs: M-F 9-5 1 SHOE COMPANY Men Women Children I- Comfort Therapeutic Shoes Custom Orthotics Custom Molded Shoes .4 nV7 TTAD ALL AMERICAN yV. iVlll W1V We ofer fie argesf seecfon of orthopedic footwear in New England. Soon to have new location February '98 if A Yin Poweir to hold thousands of subcontractors in the palm of your hand! But the captain stalled month after month about coming to apparently looking for better paying posts elsewhere. It was then that Carroll went back to the candidates who were still available. Among DiBlasi's accomplishments is his work securing grants, including funds for bicycles, motorcycles, and community policing programs, said Selectman Thomas Riolo.

"He's done a lot for the department." In his new post, DiBlasi will succeed longtime executive director Paul Doherty, who retired in August No stranger to the inner workings of the chiefs association, DiBlasi served as president, a spokesman post that changes annually, in 1994. "I think many chiefs consider George a mentor," said Dedham Police Chief Dennis Teehan, a colleague and friend who will join DiBlasi at the association as the new president, sworn in last week. "This is an opportunity to move the association forward into the next century." When Teehan was appointed chief in 1988, "George was one of the first to call and offer assistance, and I've taken him up on the offer on many occasions." As for his successor in Norwood, Lieutenant Bartley E. King, DiBlasi urged him to follow his credo: "Make decisions. When you're wrong admit it.

Try your best." DiBlasi said he has no regrets about his own tenure in Norwood. "I make a decision and move on. I never look back." j. a- Only on the NEX7EL Builders Network' It has the entire construction industry talking. 100 MINUTES FREE per month for 6 months I GLOBE PHOTO MICHAEL QUAN George DiBlasi, who has been recuperating at home from a broken ankle, is resigning as police chief in Norwood effective Jan.

5. CHIKF Continued from Page 1 lu added, the scope of the responsibility is, for him, also "a little chilling." "It's a whole new area of the world," he added during a conversation interrupted several times by the doorbell and calls from wellwishers. He has plenty of ideas about what he wants to do in his new post, he says, but won't elaborate. "I'm not going to have that in the paper before I start." DiBlasi was chosen for the job last week by the association's board of directors, but will probably not begin until the end of January or early February, when he is fully healed from a fall from a ladder outside his home. He announced in September that he was resigning from the chiefs position, effective Jan.

5. He said he did not have a new job lined up when he made the announcement but knew he wanted to move on. He applied for the association job and was also offered a post with the state Criminal Justice Training Council, which runs police training academies. "I've enjoyed being police chief, but it's a lifestyle that's imposed on you and your family," he said. Always being recognized in town became wealing.

"As chief, as a public person, you have to shave even when you go to the grocery store," said DiBlasi. He and his wife, Mary, a retired corrections officer, plan to continue living in Norwood. He was hired as chief in 1981 when he was a police lieutenant in neighboring Westwood and was given the directive to turn around a Police Department of 61 officers that was in disarray. From the start, change was the hallmark of his administration. "The department was disorganized when I got here," DiBlasi said.

He drew up an organizational chart, wrote stricter rules about such things as dress code and who reports to whom, toughened discipline and expanded in-service training. There were a lot of complaints within the department, especially that discipline was too strict, but in the end, "We restructured the de- One touch gives you immediate access to co-workers, subcontractors, suppliers, engineers, architects and clients. One second billing Basic voice mail No landline after the first minute included connections Numeric paging No roaming tecs Caller ID included included (FABULOUS TRADE-INS on Motorola 800 mhz 2-way radios DiBlasi and has a close working relationship with him. DiBlasi was not Carroll's first choice for the job. Carroll acknowledges he was impressed by a police captain from New York City who had 25 years of experience, two criminal justice degrees, and a published novel under his belt.

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At that time the development package called for a hotel and office building as well as a parking garage. That proposal died, a victim of local opposition to the hotel idea, and the recession in 1990-91. Expansion plans languished until the current plan was approved by the MBTA last month. The newest plans call for a garage with spaces for 2,750 cars on three levels, said Stephen Silveira, MBTA deputy director of real estate and director of the Route 128 station project. That translates into more than three times the number of existing legal spaces.

A fourth level would be used for nonparking purposes, including an Amtrak security center and offices, Silveira said. Amtrak, he said, would pay $22.6 million, while the MBTA's share is $20.6 million. The garage would be connected on the third level to a new, larger station and to enclosed walkways over the tracks to the Boston-bound side. Canopies would be constructed over the platform. The first parking level would be reserved for Amtrak, while remaining parking levels would be for commuters who use the MBTA trains on the Attleborough and Stoughton lines, Silveira said.

Platforms are to be raised so that passengers step directly into trains, a necessary design element for future electrified Amtrak trains on the Boston-New York route, he said. The garage would be constructed in two segments, half at a time, so that some parking would be available during the building process, Silveira said. Temporary arrangements may be made to use nearby parking at the University Avenue Industrial Park in Westwood. A so-called kiss-and-ride area where train passengers can be dropped off and picked up will be large enough for 20 to 40 cars, he said. So far, the location of the entrance to the garage and whether access routes will be redesigned have not been made final.

The entrance at first was slated for Green Lodge Street, but the most recent proposal calls for an entrance on University Avenue. A traffic flow study of the area is under way, Silveira said. He said he hopes that the state-mandated environmental impact report will be approved this spring, that construction can begin in the summer of 1998, and that the project will be completed by October 1999. In Westwood, officials' are wor ried about traffic congestion. Without proper mitigation, the additional train station traffic would aggravate bottlenecks at University Avenue and Blue Hill Drive in Westwood, according to a policy statement issued by Westwood business liaison Maureen Bleday.

Officials in both Westwood and Dedham are concerned about what impact the new station may have on a vast underground aquifer nearby that supplies most of the drinking water for both towns. "Two-thirds of all our water comes from the area around the station," said Dedham Selectman Robin Reyes. "We have to make sure they contain their pollution." In Canton, controversy centers on Green Lodge Street, which runs about twro miles from Route 138 to the tracks. The street used to connect to University Avenue via a bridge over the railroad tracks, but the bridge was torn down some 20 years ago. Residents of the street have long opposed rebuilding a bridge, saying that reconnecting Green Lodge Street to the main parking area and University Avenue would mean more traffic by their homes.

One hundred or more commuters already park on Green Lodge Street daily, and officials say rebuilding the bridge would mean even more cars traveling the two-lane road. "Opening the Green Lodge Street bridge would be very difficult for us," said Canton Selectman Avril Elkort. "We are watching with grave concern." One possible solution, proposed by the Neponset Valley Chamber of Commerce, is to use a bridge spanning Route 128 that has never been used "the bridge to nowhere," as David Mahn, president and CEO of the Neponset Valley Chamber of Commerce, called it. It was built during the 1960s when the state intended to extend Interstate 95 into Boston. But when Governor Frank Sargent axed the Boston extension in 1972, the bridge no longer served a purpose.

Located just north of where 1-95 passes over Route 128, the bridge gained public attention last summer when a film crew used it to tape footage for a T.J. Maxx commercial. A connection could be constructed from Green Lodge Street to "the bridge to nowhere" and from there to 1-95 on the north side of Route 128, Mahn said. If the Green Lodge Street bridge at the railroad station were rebuilt, a great deal of traffic could move from the train station to 1-95 south without having to travel Route 128, Mahn said. No houses are located along this proposed route, he said.

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