Quincy Center Big Dig Money Pits along the Hancock Street Misalignment Project

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Quincy Center Big Dig Money Pits along the Hancock Street Misalignment project.

Granted, news about money pits in Quincy Center is not exactly new news, but yet another round of expensive money pits is still news for the taxpayers who are ultimately stuck with the bill.

The largest new and surely also expensive money pit is near the T Mobile store in the Monroe Place building in the 1100 block of Hancock Street.

Utility conduit vault or tax dollars money pit?
A Quincy Quarry News Citizen Journalist photo

The perimeter of this latest money pit is a rectangle almost the size of a parking space for 18 wheel truck and trailer.  

Additionally, the depth of this particular money pit is roughly twelve feet deep and thus almost deep enough to be able to also bury an eighteen wheel truck and trailer.

Given what can only view as bad planning by the long-proven to be planning skills impaired Koch Maladministration, this latest money pit entailed the tearing up of already redone and near new pristine sidewalks as well as stone planter box edging, digging up of recently planted landscaping as well as removing ready for top coating roadway pavement in what can only view as a mad rush to attempt to complete the Hancock Misalignment project within but a year behind schedule.

An expensive divot, mulligan – whatever
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo

The reason for tearing up perfectly good taxpayer-funded and near new infrastructure: to complete primarily telecom conduit installation work that City Hall failed to arrange to see was done when other underground work was being done along the Hancock Street Misalignment project.

And as for the ultimate reason to have to destroy already done work: City Hall did not have the funds in place to do the conduit work when it should have been many months ago and thus had to take a mulligan, albeit at taxpayers’ expense rather than its own and so tear up perfectly good and near new infrastructure.

Then again, the Koch Maladministration has never been one to watch its spending of taxpayer-funded funds.

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