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Threading one’s way through a blocked box
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Quincy drivers continue to block the box at a crucial Quincy Center intersection.
Fully a month after new traffic lights were put into operation at the outlet from the Quincy Center MBTA station in an attempt to improve the traffic flow at this long problematic intersection that is also suspected to be riff with trafficking, vehicular traffic remains snarled during at least the weekday commute hours.

So as to honor its policy of balanced and fair coverage, Quincy Quarry monitored this long problematic intersection for a month to see if spending many hundreds of thousands of dollars on the new traffic lights might help.

So far, however, it would appear that the new traffic lights have not helped.

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A blocking the box conga line
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Particularly problematic is how what is a close series of three sets of traffic lights do not appear to be as well-coordinated with their light timing as they could be.

That and how drivers regularly either end up so stuck by the lights less than optimal timing or simply just opt to block the box in the intersection of the middle set of lights.

Also problematic is the lack of signage to encourage drivers to not block the box and that the pavement within the intersection was not painted with a cross-hatch stripping pattern as is standard practice in other communities so as to help remind driver to not block the box.

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Example of proper signage and stripping the box in CT
A patch.com photo

Granted, the roadway is pending a new coat of asphalt by mid-year this year or thereabouts.

At the same time, one would think that the city would want to properly notify drivers as to how the traffic flows as well as the rules of the road have has changed along this stretch of the Hancock Street Misalignment project from day one on this latest of many more pending misalignment traffic changes yet to come to Quincy Center.

In the meanwhile, one-fingered waves appear to be even more common of late among drivers driving through Quincy Center.

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