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Quincy Center Hancock Street Misalignment Project do-overs commence.
In mad dash at the end of last year to unsuccessfully finish the Hancock Street Misalignment Project a full year later than the less than two years completion time originally promised as the worst case scenario needed to complete this oft-maligned project, quality control was apparently slighted, if not all but completely ignored.
An expensive do-over of a new last year sidewalk
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo
As a result, construction workers can be readily spotted along the new Hancock Street corridor in Quincy Center working on both redoing work feverishly misdone last fall before the arrival of winter gave rise to the annual end of the road construction season as well as also finishing up work not yet done.
For example, finished concrete sidewalk work that was not draining properly last winter or otherwise has been ripped out and replaced.
Other drainage issues remain at least as yet unresolved, however.
New pavement is not draining properly
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo
In particular, the pavement at the vehicular access way for the Quincy Center MBTA is not properly sloped and thus water is ponding in the middle of the street instead of properly flowing into gutters and then into storm drains.
Of further concern, it is also remains unclear from whence this ponding water is coming.
After all, it has not rained in Quincy in several days nor have there been any water line leakages since the most recent one blew last week.
One of many dead trees?
A Quincy Quarry News file photo
Also yet to addressed are the at least several larger and thus expensive trees planted last year along the route of the Hancock Street Misalignment Project that have likely died given a lack of their proper watering.
Then again, serial tree killings have long been an ongoing problem along the ever increasingly mean streets of the Q.
As such, count on Quincy Quarry to continue to expose things as new stories on even more new problems come along.
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I am in favor of an election do-over. Anyone else up for the same cause?
In addition to the costly do-overs mentioned above, please note that a portion of Granite St. that had been repaved and repainted with what might be described as traffic hieroglyphics — “improved” as part of the misalignment — has been dug up again and is now undergoing some sort of utility work. I thought that sort of poor planning had been strongly discouraged. Pi$$ing into the wind …
Par for the Q, I guess.