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– News about Quincy MA from Quincy Quarry News
Quincy Center has been hit with yet another public parking shortcoming given yet another instance of poor planning by the shortcomings-plagued deservedly embattled Koch Maladministration.
After locals and Quincy businesses have suffered months of street parking taken out of service given construction work on the long ongoing Hancock Street realignment project, some curbside parking was finally as well as officially restored to public use this past week.
Unfortunately, street parking was only restored on but one side of only some of the 1200 block of Hancock Street in Quincy Center.
Further unfortunate, given apparent poor planning and design work lead by city officials, these surely expensive new decorative as well as high-rise granite landscaping planter perimeters have been placed so close to the curb that car passengers are not readily able to open their car doors to exit if their ride is parked close enough to the curb as required by law.

Instead, only the passengers of especially tall SUV and certain minivan are able to readily exit their rides.
In fact, the new overly tall as well as surely expensive granite planter borders are all but assuredly providing some SUV passengers with convenient steps when exiting their high-riding road hogs.
Regardless of this probably unplanned convenience provided to some, considerable as well as clear and present new dangers now imperil the public safety to many others.

For example, the surely many who are less able to climb over front seat center consoles or are otherwise now forced to exit onto the street and so risk oncoming traffic.
This dire potential public safety problem is also all but certain to metastasize as more granite planter borders are inflicted upon Quincy Center as the long ongoing and all but assuredly running late Hancock Street realignment project continues to ever-increasingly shows itself to be arguably misaligned.
Similarly dangerous, the so also surely increased numbers of street-side door openings will all but assuredly further imperil the already imperiled bicyclists braving the ever increasingly mean streets of the Q.

Quincy Quarry considered reaching out to City Hall for comment; however, it quickly realized that embattled incumbent Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s official spokesmodel as well as designated flak catcher Pinnochio Walkbacker would all but assuredly endeavor to unfairly throw the Massachusetts Department of Transportation into the street as this road reconstruction project is a MassDOT overseen project.
While such a statement would be technically true, the ultimate fact of the matter is that the Koch Maladministration is the entity that both commissioned and then oversaw the sidewalk design work done by the Halvorson Design Partnership.

In turn, certain of this partnership are regular as well as significant contributors to duly embattled incumbent Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s campaign fund.
In short, it clearly appears to be business as usual in the Quincy as regards both this latest inexcusably dumb Q-up as well as the long local tradition of pay for play.
Regardless, expect Quincy Quarry to continue to expose the Koch Maladministration’s apparent chronic as well as abject disregard for both “Best Practices” as well as even but merely standard practices.
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