Quincy drivers still suffering potholes all over town

Pothole pocked city pavement near limited repair work
A Quincy Quarry News photo

– News about Quincy MA from Quincy Quarry News.

Quincy drivers are still suffering potholes just about everywhere they drive in the Q.

So what, apparently, that well over triple the originally budgeted funds provided for filling potholes – as well as so larding up overtime pay for some city employees at the Department of Public Works – have been variously provided after the just barely record-setting Winter of 2015.

Certain DPW workers doing what they are known for doing
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Initially, the Koch Maladministration’s original Fiscal Year 2015 budget allocated $200,000.00 to fix local potholes.

Then subsequently, another $200.000.00 to fix potholes was provided via an emergency supplemental spending appropriation request by the maladministration and which was then duly approved by the City Council in March.

Additionally, another $287,000.00 followed a few days later in the way of pork-barrel pothole repair emergency funding from Beacon Hill.

DPW Commissar Dan “Spanky” Raymondi
A City of Quincy photo

Additionally, Department of Public Works Commissar Department of Public Works Commissar Dan “Spanky” Raymondi announced to the City Council over a month ago his plans to blitz potholes in the Q.

Granted, one can readily imagine the free-spending Koch Maladministration could readily run through over two-thirds of million before, say, breaking for lunch.

Even so, one could only reasonably assume that surely a number of potholes could be fixed given such considerable funding.

Unfortunately, such appears to not be the case.  In fact, it would appear not even close.

DPW workers working on fixing potholes
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Quincy Quarry retraced its steps at previously featured pothole sites.

While doing so, it found work done less than well in some instances as well as still not done at all in others.

For example, the Quarry returned to the City-owned Hancock Parking Lot opposition the Quincy District Courthouse.

In previous Quincy Quarry coverage, it reported that it had actually found Department of Public Works workers at least appearing to be working on repairing potholes one day and so duly reported on same.

Pothole repairs amidst still remaining potholes
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Now, however, it would appear that these workers did not exactly work all at hard at filling all of the potholes as they could and should have done as is photo-documented above.

While some potholes were – in fact – filled as documented by follow-up Quincy Quarry photography, others both immediately adjacent as well as very close by were not repaired at all as demonstrated by both the above Quincy Quarry feature photo for this Quarry story as well as the one to the immediate left of this story text.

Truly beloved as well as legendary Boston Mayor Tom “Potholes” Menino laying down the beat for “The Pothole Blues.”
A YouTube still image

Similarly, as well as of potentially far more worrisome safety concerns, potholes in major streets such as Washington Street are still not repaired.

One can only wonder what the Q as – after all – this a mayoral election year and the duly embattled incumbent Mayor Thomas P. Koch is so missing out on a very basic bread and butter as well as time-honored constituent service grift: filling holes that it should be filling immediately as a matter of course.

In any event, it remains to be seen if Koch will be singing The Pothole Blues – or not – after the fast-approaching fall local elections.

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