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Quincy Center sidewalk moved sideways redux yet again?
In what is an head-scratching Q-up even per the long suspect quality control standards of the Koch Maladministration, it would appear that the Hancock Street realignment project is out of alignment.
Specifically, the new sidewalks in front of Presidents Place and a neighboring building do not line up – not even close, as a matter of fact – as demonstrated per exclusive Quincy Quarry News photography.
Quincy Quarry considered reaching out to Quincy City Hall for an explanation, but then it remembered that the Koch Maladministration rarely responds either quickly to warranted questioning of its all too typically curious actions or provides a valid and comprehensive explanation when questioned, much less does both at the same time.

Regardless, this latest apparent Q-up would appear to indicate a heretofore unimaginable as well as worsening trend.
Specifically, recent construction work would appear to clearly suggest that the project’s design specifications, alignments and such continue to be askew.
Case in point, last fall new sidewalk construction work along Granite Street was apparently misaligned and so put streetlights into the street.
Now, however, things appear to upwards of several of feet out of whack instead of maybe just a couple.
On top of also obvious safety concerns, one would assume think that the powers that be learned how often sharply curving sidewalks designs were especially as well as variously problematic during less than effective snow removal efforts during last winter’s barely record setting snowfall.
Unfortunately, however, apparently not.

Further curious is how the Koch Administration has long been touting that wider – if not also Parisian boulevard grand – sidewalks would be coming to the New Quincy Center when, in point of fact, so far they have narrowed sidewalks along both Granite Street and at least a considerable portion of the 1200 block of Hancock Street.
While Quincy Quarry can only properly concede that at least this time that the bases for the pending replacements of streetlights along at least part of 1200 block of Hancock are not in the street, one still cannot help but be gravely concerned as to how these narrowing sidewalks will impact pedestrian safety along the increasingly mean streets of the Q.

In particular, one of the Quarry’s legions of understandably kept anonymous sources have advised it that both Presidents Place and one of its major tenants, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, are besides themselves over the loss of the heavily used handicapped and ambulance parking spaces formerly in front of their building.
For reasons yet to be acknowledged by the Koch Maladministration, the City of Quincy has apparently failed – as usual – to duly effect appropriate alternative arrangements as per applicable obligations after these much used disabled parking and ambulance spaces were eliminated.
Among other binding obligations, federal American with Disabilities Act rules and regulations.

So what also,  apparently, for the fact that this street misalignment project was funded via a federal grant.
Alternatively, City Hall continues to vigorously protect its reserved parking turf in its reserved parking lot in front of the Quincy Center MBTA station.
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