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Quincy Courthouse and the latest New Quincy Center plan both koched-up.

As Quincy Quarry first reported last week, today the South Shore Broadsheet followed up with its own coverage that Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s long touted plans to see a new Quincy District Courthouse built over the Quincy Center MBTA station have hit the fan.

Is the bromance over?
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As reported last week in the Quarry, various state agencies have variously nixed the plans – although none offered up any particulars in response to inquiries made by the broadsheet.

On the other hand, the broadsheet did obtain a number of amusing as well as arguably disingenuous quotes from Mayor Thomas P. Koch as to why his so-called plan was nixed.

Apparently, City Hall spokesmodel Pinocchio Walkbacker was either unable or perhaps unwilling to try to spin this latest City Hall disaster.

Also amusing were statements in the broadsheet quoting Mayor Thomas P. Koch saying that he continues to keep things moving forward. 

Drink the Kool Aid, drink the Kool Aid
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So what, apparently, for the fact that they have instead hit the wall.

At the same time, however, the broadsheet failed to address how Mayor Koch’s long and stubbornly pressing for his most ill-advised and now also ill-received plans have surely resulted in pushing back even further and for some as yet uncertain number of years undertaking both the renovation of the Quincy Center MBTA station as well as building a new courthouse all but assuredly somewhere else.

For example, in Braintree.

The future for local public transit?
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A key reason: the largely state-provided funding needed to make these projects possible is significantly funded via special state bond issuances that only occur every several years or so – given, that is, that both the economy is healthy as well as that the state budget can carry even more debt.

As such, any such funding will have to wait until (at least, ed.) the next round of state bond issuances.

Also not addressed by the broadsheet, absent a new Quincy Center MBTA station, Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s transit-oriented redevelopment plans for Quincy Center are all but Q’ed for at least the intermediate term absent any but merely general statement from governmental officials not tied to Quincy’s City Hall as to when a new station might merely but perhaps be build.

MBTA’s excuse for Quincy Center
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In short, so much for a New Quincy Center anytime soon.

A City on the Move hits the wall?
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At this point, the only real unknown is how much longer Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch can continue to fool enough people. 

That and successfully avoid the only properly to be expected angry mobs carrying pitchforks and axes given another widely expected to be a sizeable increase in local property taxes in 2017.

In the meanwhile, expect Quincy Quarry to continue to cover the breaking badly bad news likely to continue coming down hard as well as deservedly so upon the Koch Maladministration.

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