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– Quincy News from Quincy Quarry News
Quincy fancy new streetlights to help with local trafficking?
In a break from the usual photo op gala ribbon cutting opening event, the City of Quincy is instead looking to be quietly turning on new streetlights behind new City Hall and the Hancock Cemetery alongside the MBTA tracks to enhance local trafficking.
Specifically, almost two dozen ornate and surely expensive new cast iron streetlights now line a simple and newly repaved asphalt sidewalk along the tracks.
The needle and the damage done – lyric by Neil Young. A QQ Citizen Photojournalist file photo
While city hall officials are surely too busy with activities at the Koch for Koch headquarters at 400 Hancock Street – say – assembling yard signs, Quincy Quarry can only reasonably assume that the loose association of local street recreational pharmacologists and their self-medicating clientele may – or may not – appreciate the improved illumination and aesthetics along this formerly dark and semi-secluded walkway.
On the other hand, Quincy Quarry has yet to dare to check to see if the new streetlights are actually function after dark and which has long and often been a problem with the city’s streetlights in Quincy Center.
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Speaking of lights — no, not streetlights — traffic lights. This afternoon (11/4) the traffic signals in front of President’s Place were acting very strangely. As I approached them heading north on Hancock, there were, within 30 or so seconds, in order of appearance:
1. a flashing red
2. a solid red and yellow
3. a flashing red and yellow
4. a flashing red
5. a solid yellow
6. and this is the best one — red and green at the same time.
I guess it must be part of the Mayor’s plan, since he claims to have everything under control.
Drivers, who routinely ignore traffic lights didn’t quite know what to do. And even pedestrians, who rarely pay attention to the lights anyway, seemed a bit more confused than usual.
Not surprisingly there wasn’t a cop in sight.
Maybe this lighting format is merely a tune-up for this year’s Christmas display. Happy Holidays … crash.