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Quincy traffic continues to be mired in the snow as many streets around town continue to be half plowed at best.
Even worse, the resultant reduction in traffic flow is worse than merely half fast.
There is a traffic flow mathematical explanation for how traffic flow capacity declines at rates worse than the number of lanes of traffic deleted, but Quincy Quarry sees no point in further befuddling its Team Koch Quincy Quarry monitoring team readers.
That and adding to their reading time reading the Quarry while they are on the taxpayers’ dime.
Faxon Lane’s Dead Man’s Curve on the way to Gennaro’s
A Quincy Quarry News photo
In any event, the problem of missing lanes all over the Q is pervasive. Not just on quiet residential neighborhood streets, but also on a number of well-traveled secondary records such as Russell Park and Faxon Lane.
On the other hand, there are some positives to report.
Local towing companies and auto body repair shops are enjoying record setting business, including that many of the latter are only able to book merely but repair cost estimate appointments no earlier than sometime after the widely anticipated July thaw.
Double track dog sled tracks
A Quincy Quarry News dog sled team photo
Additionally, at least one local former street was recently upgraded from a single one-way only dog sled track to two-way double tracks.
Unfortunately, some local dog sled team owners are falling short on picking up their dogs’ “by-product.”
Fortunately for the dog sled team owners, however, there is apparently is also not a dog litter pick up ordinance in Quincy.
Further as well as dangerously unfortunate, reports continue to come into the Quincy Quarry that local emergency response vehicles are continuing to becoming stuck in the snow, even on the street where the Mayor lives, albeit apparently not on his typically much better cleared block.
Worse yet, it would appear that constituent services response times by City Hall hacks appear to have increased to weeks from previous merely but days – and even then apparently only merely that slowly as opposed to flat out ignored given media pressure.
Only in the Q . . .
QQ disclaimer
Mush! Slush? Whatever.
An old dog sled team photo
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i agree many streets are way to narrow and its pathetic that the City can’t send out a few crews with large plows and other equipment to just touch up some trouble spots ie intersections or areas that are causing traffic issues
A mid sized truck can only plow so much snow, if the snow was completely plowed off the street how many residents would complain that too much snow was plowed on sidewalks and end of driveways when it didn’t need to be.
We need to stop throwing money at the snow, in a week and a half temps will be above freezing. Let’s just deal with it, I don’t think any reasonable resident wants snow hauled away from their side street.
James,
Thank you for your input.
No argument, a solid response plan is needed, not the sort of apparent favoritism highlighted by Quincy Quarry in its “Quincy residential street snow removal finally commences via a modest start” story at http://quincyquarry.com/quincy-ma/news/2015/02/quincy-residential-street-snow-removal-finally-commences-via-a-modest-start/
Unfortunately, the mayor instead loves to throw around taxpayers’ money whenever he Q’s up so as to make it look like he actually doing something to effectively address matters.