Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: The Quiet Between Storms?

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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap:  The Quiet Between Storms?

It has been a wet week in the Q in the wake of a yearlong drought.  So wet that the drought is all but officially over.

Also raining down was a State Police raid on a local watering hole. 

The South Shore broadsheet was tipped off about the raid and then did a fair job of covering it.

Quiet neighborhood watering hole
A Google Maps image

The broadsheet did not, however, find out why the watering hole was able to reopen shortly after the raid.

Needless to say, given Quincy Quarry’s myriad of sources in places both high but mostly low, it is the Quarry’s understanding that the raid was not directed at the tavern’s current owner.

Exactly why, however, is as yet unclear – but do expect that Quincy Quarry will continue to dribble out particulars as they continue to leak.

MBTA Red Line train
A smartphone file photo

And on other fronts, the public has finally come to realize what the MBTA has been broaching for quite some time.

Specifically, that it will be replacing or at least renovating all of the Red Line stations in the Q.

While long overdue, the problem for locals is that three stations slated for full renovations will be done mostly one at a time as well as that the last one to be redone – Quincy Center – will not be finished until sometime in the 2020’s, if not well into the mid-2020’s.

The Quincy Adams station, on the other hand, will be receiving essentially but a makeover –  mostly on its garage – as opposed to a complete reconstruction and it is thus claimed to be possible to be done without massive disruption to its patrons.  Work will at this station it will commence relatively soon.

As for the full reconstructions, first up will be Wollaston Station and which is slated to be closed for 20 months of what is (currently, ed.) projected to be a 38 month long project.  Work on Wollaston station is slated to begin this summer.

MBTA’s excuse for Quincy Center
An mbtaexcuses.com excuse

Next up is the reconstruction of North Quincy, but which is not likely to commence any sooner than after Wollaston reopens for operation in early 2019 or thereabouts and while the Wollaston station is still undergoing a complete renovation.

The one fingered salute
A Staco Communications transit map graphic

No formal construction timeline for North Quincy has been broached, but three years of major disruption would likely be a viable working projection at this point.

Funding for the above projects is technically in place; however, full funding of the sure to be very costly reconstruction of Quincy Center has yet to be lined up.

As such, groundbreaking on building a new Quincy Center will likely not happen any time before 2020 – and this is probably the earliest, however remote, hypothetical possibility.

One should also expect construction to take at least three years and thus not likely to be completed until sometime in the mid-2020’s or thereabouts.

Ghost trains on the Red Line?
An mbtaexcuse.com excuse

In other words, so much for a transit-oriented New Quincy Center as it won’t have a new public transit station for at least six to eight years, best case.

A City on the Move yet again hits the wall?
An Iconic Quincy Quarry News file photo

In the meanwhile, with all of the local Red Line stations to be variously impacted while they are redone, expect Quincy to be looking at even more gridlock traffic as well as even less more problematic public transit than it has suffered in recent years.

That and just as thousands more new and mostly apartment residential units are expected to hit the Q.

And speaking of hitting, the fan is already spinning.

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