Quincy City Hall reserved parking opened to some others?

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Quincy City Hall reserved parking finally opened up to some others?
At a time when Quincy Center public parking is in even shorter supply given the resumption of construction work on the Hancock Street realignment project, Quincy City Hall reserved parking for City Hall employees and long suspected VIP commuters has apparently been opened up for use by at least one other category of user.

In exclusive Quincy Quarry photographs, a vehicle with no apparent City Hall employee parking sticker other than a semi-official Koch blue bumper sticker in the rear window was spotted in the City Hall’s reserved parking lot in front of the Quincy Center MBTA station.
It is also only fair to note that this vehicle sported a disabled parking placard on its dashboard.
Further fair, it must be noted that the vehicle was not parked in a designated disabled parking space and which is the only place a Disabled Placard allows a so-designated disabled person to enjoy disabled parking privileges per the Registry of Motor Vehicles.

Further still, Quincy Quarry was not able to readily determine the potential validity of the placard as both the name as well the picture of the holder imprinted on it were covered.
While such coverage of Disabled Placard ID information is legally permissible, such still bodes only fair questions.
Further yet, the vehicle was seen parking in the City Hall reserved parking lot for at least several hours and thus far longer than just any normal business with City Hall might take even per City Hall’s usual resident/customer service performance standards.
At the same time, however, other vehicles without any special parking tags that were also parked in this reserved for City Hall employees and long suspected VIP commuters parking lot were tagged with parking tickets.

Regardless, even this ever so slight parking access relief accommodation apparently accorded to someone sporting a disabled parking placard is a potentially positive change.
After all, over a year ago both the City Council as well as city officials working on the Hancock Street realignment project adamantly refused to even but merely entertain suggestions from private citizens that perhaps but a mere handful of City Hall’s reserved parking spaces could be made available for use by the public during the penance of the Hancock Street realignment project.
Expect more relentless coverage on parking in the Q by Quincy Quarry.
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