Hancock Street Misalignment Project completion underway as winter fades away

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Hancock Street Misalignment Project completion is finally underway as winter fades away.

Work has resumed this spring to finish up this and that on the Hancock Street misalignment project that was not finished during last year’s construction season as well as also tear up and redo a few things that were done last year.

In any event, the resumption of work so begins the fourth construction season that this project is under construction on something that was originally touted to only take two construction seasons to complete.

Given the delays, locals have suffered greatly as well as will likely continue to suffer even after work is completed given considerable as well as problematic changes to local traffic patterns and road capacity inflicted in the pursuit of “traffic calming.”

Will drivers will abide by the rules? Ya, right.
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

That and how work already completed to date is already showing signs of premature, if not wicked premature, failure on top of the various dubious design features of the new Hancock Street misalignment.

On the other hand, local police are surely looking forward to continuing police detail extra pay on this running way late project to tide them over until new police detail coverage is needed when both the Wollaston MBTA station is closed in July for its reconstruction and the Quincy Center MBTA garage is concurrently slated for its (but, ed.) partial destruction five years after it was condemned as unsafe and so closed.

New curbing and concrete already trashed
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo

At the same time, however, it remains to be seen how locals will react to this next round of upcoming work to redo all of Quincy’s Red Line stations.

After all, the best case scenario would clearly appear to indicate that it will take at least seven – but more likely even more – years to finish redoing Quincy’s Red Line stations.

As such, local residents will face a local manner of a long ongoing Big Dig 2.0 sort of mess as these stations are variously redone and locals are thus sure to be variously impacted in ways surely detrimental during reconstruction process.

As such, expect Quincy Quarry to cover this and other breaking badly bad news for Quincy as only the Quarry has the stones to do.

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