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Quincy Center office building snow jobbed then victimized with a fine by the City of Quincy.
In follow up to a previous Quincy Quarry feel good story about a miraculous clearing of a local street, the Quarry has since uncovered more to the story.
Given Quincy Quarry’s ever growing number of news sources and Citizen Journalists, it has discerned the following and which yet again exposés the City of Quincy to warranted criticism.
Local taxpayer-funded snow clearing efforts piled up snow next to and onto public sidewalks in front of this particular office building on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.
In turn, the piles were both piled high and then later froze to the point of rock hard ice, thus making sidewalks all but impassable, automotive rights of way narrow and otherwise making a mess of things.
In particular, the problematic snow piles made it all but impossible for water from melting snow to drain properly into storm drains. As such, during the cold of night this water would turn into frozen sidewalks and skating ponds at crosswalks that further made a dangerous mess of things.
Snow well-cleared and thus not done by the City
A Quincy Quarry News file photo
As for the miraculous clearing of snow, Quincy Quarry was told by its anonymous source that it was undertaken by the office building’s owner after he was cited and so fined by the City of Quincy for failing to clear the snow piles.
So what, apparently, for the fact that it can be readily argued that the mess was primarily the doing of City of Quincy snow removal resources as opposed to Mother Nature, much less anything untoward done by employees of or services retained by the office building’s owner.
Quincy Quarry was further provided with two exclusive Citizen Video Journalist videos of city snow removal resources making a mess of things for the office building owner.
All but needless to say following the citation by the City of Quincy, the office building owner is now facing a bill for his having to bring in a private contractor to clean-up a frozen mess made mainly by City of Quincy’s snow removal efforts.
Do as the City says, not as it does.
Disabled parking still disabled.
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo
Conversely, however, nine days after the last but moderate snowfall upon Quincy, the City of Quincy has yet to duly make clear the only readily accessible handicapped parking space anywhere near City Hall that is not otherwise made available by the MBTA for use by MBTA patrons relying on its Quincy Center station.
Further disconcerting, similar City of Quincy snow removal shortcomings can also be found throughout the Q.
As of the press deadline for this latest Quincy Quarry snow job expose, the cited commercial property had not yet decided if it was planning to appeal its snow removal citation given solid reasons to view the piled high snow piles as ultimately the result of the City of Quincy’s own misplowing.
Quincy Quarry also did reach out to City Hall for comment. Reasons include that the Quarry’s City Editor saw no point in wasting Quincy Quarry’s precious time and energy to in turn yet again be ignored by the Koch Maladministration.
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As unsurprising as this may be, I usually experience a quite different situation. I always clear the sidewalk in front of my house, but when the city or it’s contractors plow the street — truly a crapshoot — they never get close enough to the curb to have any effect on the sidewalk whatsoever.
As a matter of fact, it seems that my driveway lengthens by anywhere from 6 – 10 ft. depending on the volume of snow. And the portion of the street that is plowed — a two-way street, by the way — becomes an uncomfortably narrow one lane street. A real winter carnival.
Here’s a question: As I understand it, the city pays snow removal contractors “by the inch” of fallen snow. Not sure how that’s a realistic, quantifiable concept. Do they determine snowfall totals by searching for snowfall numbers in, say, Skowhegan Maine?