Breaking Bad News
Let’s face it, we all secretly love finding about bad news – at least so long as it doe not involve us personally, especially in ways criminal and/or financially painful.
As such, this is where Quincy Quarry aficionados can get their daily fix of breaking badly badly news© – be it local, national and/or international.
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MBTA announces a month-long closure of the opened just a month ago Green Line Extension to Somerville #mbta #charliebaker, #mayorkoch
In a late breaking pile of breaking badly bad news© broken on a Friday so as to take advantage of a weekend in the hope that public rancor might abate over the weekend, the T announced it will be closing the Green Line Extension for a month
Quincy Center traffic light fail gives rise to snarled evening commute traffic #mayorkoch #cityofquincy #tpal #quincypolice
A Citizen Traffic Monitor then only responsibly called the Quincy Police Department, only to be told that the department had no officers available to respond to the scene.
MBTA workers damage third rail during overnight track work on the Red Line
On the first overnight of a planned two week project to redo Red Line track given a laundry list of fixes mandated by the Federal Transportation Administration, MBTA repair equipment derailed near the Quincy Center Red Line station around 1:45 AM in the wee hours of this morning.
Commuter Rail fail #mbta #mayorkoch #charliebaker
Given the concurrent loss of air conditioning on the train, some passengers opted to flee the scene by relying on the kindness of strangers who provided ladders so that passengers could climb over chain link fencing along the tracks.
Botched Takeout Prompted a Big Mac Attack™
A Minnesotan man charged with assault following a domestic beef …
Quincy COVID-19 Infection rates continue to climb
Further troubling, while the statewide average for infections is 9% higher than is the case in Quincy, the local testing positive rate continues to run a troubling half again higher than the statewide average.
Pedestrian death rate rose despite fewer miles driven during COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
While motor vehicle traffic dropped by 16.5% after the pandemic hit the fan a year ago, the pedestrian fatalities were unchanged and so increased the rate of pedestrian fatalities per vehicular mile driven by 20%.
Quincy COVID-19 Cases Uptick
The testing positive rate in Quincy is a now troubling half again higher than the statewide average.
Quincy hit with four more COVID-19 fatalities
After going a statistically improbable five weeks since the last local COVID-19, the City of Quincy announced well after City Hall closed on Friday that four deaths had occurred over the past week.
Quincy’s Credit Rating gets a black eye
Standard and Poor has slapped the City of Quincy with a negative outlook on its credit rating.
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