Quincy Center Hancock Street Misalignment Project Finally Nearing Completion?

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Quincy Center’s Hancock Street Misalignment Project may finally be nearing completion.

Last weekend, a full court press was on to lay asphalt on the final run of the long running as well as running almost a year late Hancock Street Misalignment Project.

Rumor has it that City Hall has been laying into misalignment project project managers for quite some time so as to press them to make up for lost time one can readily argue was lost given poor planning and even worse decisions made by City Hall.

Road hogging
A Quarry Citizen Photo Journalist photo.

In any event, roughly two blocks of Hancock Street in Quincy Center were closed for most of a Saturday and thus buses serving the Quincy Center MBTA station were shunted onto Burgin Parkway.

Not only were many businesses so paved into a corner, so too were the residents of the Monroe Building and who were only advised that they could not take their cars out of their garage but mere hours before they were so trapped.

Even project construction workers have had a rough go of it. 

Quincy Quarry personnel have heard words that cannot be cited even in the Quarry, but can note that many workers cannot wait to get outta Dodge as well as do not care to work in Q ever again.

128 overpass demolition site
A Boghosian/Boston Globe photo

By contrast, the concurrent and far more massive effort by the Mass Turnpike Authority to remove its toll plazas has mostly gone better to far better than expected. 

In fact, the work is running ahead of schedule. 

Even MassDOT’s closing of a stretch of 128 to demolish the old Highland overpass in Needham has been extremely well-planned and so gone smoothly.

At this point in Quincy, however, all manner of work that normally would have been completely before the final topcoat of asphalt was laid remains to be done and thus the Hancock Misalignment Project is running late by close to a full year on a project that was originally expected to be completed in roughly twenty months or thereabouts.

One of Quincy’s Big Dig money pits
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Even more troubling, the final cost is not yet known. 

What is known to Quincy Quarry is that the cost of needed underground utility work is expected to run a million over budget; however, the also likely cost overruns on the road work itself are not expected to be publicly acknowledged for as long as possible.

When the total final cost is announced or more likely also leaked, expect Quincy Quarry to cover this latest and thus further sodding of taxpayers.

In the meanwhile, those who listened to Quincy Quarry’s gaming desk and rolled their winnings betting against the various previously announced Hancock Street Misalignment Project’s projected completion dates into new bets betting that the temporary Ross Garage replacement parking lot would not be completed this year should expect to be enjoying a very merry as well as flush with green Holiday Season.

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