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Quincy Center Speed Hump crosswalk construction forces pedestrians into oncoming commute traffic.

Just when one would like to hope that perhaps finally things could not become even more Q’ed up along the Hancock Street Misalignment Project, things of course did become even more Q’ed up.

Construction work on the new “Speed Table” in front of Presidents Place has made an bigger mess of both traffic as well as trafficking in Quincy Center.

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A corn maze of a traffic maze
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo

Motor vehicle traffic has been reduced to running the gauntlet of a downgrading of four lanes of traffic down to two single detour lanes of traffic.

Even more problematic, pedestrians have been left without either a designated crosswalk or the protection of a detail police officer directing traffic during the evening commute after construction work on the Speed Table has ceased during at least the first three days of this Speed Hump’s construction.

Further, Quincy Quarry has been diligently monitoring this among the most busiest pedestrian crosswalks in Quincy and is thus duly surprised that no pedestrians have been struck either by a passing motor vehicle or the fist of an irate driver. 

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Curbing traffic in the Q?
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

At least not yet, that is.

While one can only reasonably assume that applicable rules and guidelines for road construction sites behoove some sort of temporary plan to protect pedestrian safety, apparently the City of Quincy never saw the memo.

Either that or the Koch Maladministration is attempting late in the game to mitigate the likely to be considerable cost overruns on a project that is currently running close to a year behind its original twenty months or so construction schedule.

Someone has | quincy news'splaining to doA Quincy Quarry News file photo

Someone has ‘splaining to do
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Quincy Quarry considered reaching out to City Hall for comment; however, given the also long ongoing construction work around City Hall, the Quarry personnel assigned to press City Hall for comment could not find a way into City Hall.

Regardless, here is hoping that the Quarry will not have to follow up on this latest and always hard-hitting Quincy Quarry exposé with a tragic feature story on a pedestrian struck down in this currently as well as especially dangerous street crossing in the also increasingly dangerous in general Quincy Center.

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