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Quincy opting for wider sidewalks as solution to local traffic problems?
In the wake of ever growing concerns about traffic congestion in Quincy as well as other sorts of trafficking in Quincy Center in particular, the Hancock misalignment project has moved onto its latest reveal of what is coming to Quincy Center.
The apparent solution: dramatically increasing sidewalk capacity for pedestrians in at least the 1300 block of Hancock Street and so perhaps encourage people to rely on their feet instead of their cars for getting around in Quincy Center.

While the long awaited trees for the many new planter beds already completed along Hancock Street will not be coming until next year because Hancock Street misalignment project designers Halvorson Design and Howard/Stein-Hudson Associates apparently Koched up and ordered the wrong trees this year, expansive new sidewalks are currently in the early stages of construction in Quincy Center.
Whether – or not – the whole of at least most of the rest of the actual roadway construction of the Hancock Street misalignment project is fully completed by the end of this year as originally projected or if completion will instead be sometime next year remains to be seen.

What will apparently be seen shortly, will be the completion of massively wide sidewalks taking up formerly curb parking and/or lanes of roadway in Quincy Center.
Click here to see what is planned.
Without question, at least dive bar tours in Quincy Center are sure to become easier – if not also safer – for those bobbing and weaving as they pub crawl from dive to dive instead of opting to OUI.
At the same time, discouraging of clean, sober and at least hands-free cell phone motor vehicle trafficking conversely appears likely.
While some existing roadways center dividers are being removed and so partially mitigating the loss of some traffic lanes in Quincy Center, the eventual net impact upon vehicular traffic flow looks to be detrimental when Hancock Street misalignment might actually as well as finally be completed.
Similarly, curb parking space numbers will be permanently reduced given the misalignment project as well as interminably in front of other construction projects, including the running even further behind schedule and almost twice over budget old City Hall gut wall renovation project.

Also becoming more obvious are the impending and to be numerous so-called curb bump outs.
As locals will recall, the bump outs build in front of the library took beatings from snow plows during last winter’s snow job, with many requiring repair or replacement in recent months.
Only another visit by Old Man Winter will provide an indication if more of the same is to be expected.
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