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Quincy Center Streets go green!
While out prowling the ever-increasingly mean streets of Quincy looking for breaking news, Quincy Quarry News personal came across inexplicably as well as newly painted green pavement along the Hancock Street Misalignment Project.
Flummoxed notwithstanding, photographs were taken of the newly painted green pavement.
Not quite as dangerous as the Baghdad Green Zone …
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo
Subsequently back in the Quincy Quarry Newsroom, one of the Quarry’ starving student interns happened upon an apparent explanation for the green paint: enhancing and so perhaps clarifying bicycle lane markings.
Documentation notwithstanding, most of the hard-bitten and even harder drinking regular Quincy Quarry staff felt that the new green paint was more likely to give a green light to wreak havoc by already not exactly accommodating of others Massachusetts drivers.
Anyone know what happened to the bicycle?
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo
Even so, there appears to be no other official public announcement out of Quincy’s City Hall or any other official city entity both widely announcing as well as then properly explaining the new green paint, much less seeing that news of some is then duly promulgated in the media other than this apparently exclusive coverage by Quincy Quarry as a result of an arguably inadvertent connecting of the dots by a lowly Quincy Quarry student intern.
Fortunately, Quincy Quarry has the readership reach to see that at least some local drivers are informed as to why the new green paint was painted along the Hancock Street Misalignment project.
Actually also so enhancing local bicyclists’ safety, however …
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It’s very simple. The city likely got a “deal” from one of the mayor’s “pals” who offered the green paint for a price of at least three or four times its actual value … and of course this was seen as a “great deal” since the taxpayers will be footing the bill anyway.
Spot on as usual Dom: see http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20170713/state-awards-local-towns-including-quincy-money-to-increase-pedestrian-safety
Well, per the PL story, none of the state (taxpayer-provided) funds are being used to paint the streets green in the Q. The money is being used for a “bicycle safety program.” This falls under the heading of feel-good, vote garnering, non-results-accountability educational attempt. The follow-up question is will the $3,750.00 will cover the whole nut for this bicycle program or – as is more likely – will it only be the “seed money” for a program that may very well metastasize into a full-fledged additional new city department or a commission?