Quincy Center’s new parking garage continues to be a safety risk

– Quincy News from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Hancock Garage safety panic button still not working
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Quincy Center’s new parking garage continues to be a safety risk.

Quincy Quarry continues to monitor as well as has both previously as well as repeatedly exposéd how the personal safety at the new Hancock Garage continues to not be what it both could and now should be six months after the new garage opened for public use.

How glaring a problem is the still ongoing safety concern? 

“Trust me, it will be fixed”
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Even the all but invariably otherwise fawning local tabloid addressed this safety concern to Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch several months ago.

While for a refreshing change, Mayor Koch owned up to this punch list fail and then promised a timely fix, the fix has yet to happen.

Granted, the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown has made a mess of things; however, public safety equipment repairs are among the work activities deemed as essential and thus allowed, not to mention that Quincy has allowed construction to continue nearby. 

Plus, the workers needed to effect the needed fix could surely use the work.

Media circus at Quincy District Courthouse for felony hearing
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Further troubling, with Quincy District Courthouse on track to reopen for business shortly and given its clientele, one would think that the City of Quincy should only properly address the clear public safety risk posed by an inoperative personal safety panic button alarm system.

Moreover, it is only fair to add that this personal safety system feature was long and often touted as a key part of the garage’s features to assuage understandable local concerns.

And on a related note in the meanwhile, the City of Quincy has yet to merely but verbally address the obvious public safety risk on the top floor of the garage and which Quincy Quarry has previously exposéd.

Mr. Quincy parks wherever he wants to, wherever he wants to …
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Then again, one can only assume that perhaps local officials could not be bothered.

After all, at least one of them has a long history of parking wherever he wants, not to mention also driving dangerously when doing so, and thus the safety of the general public is not of concern to local officials when it comes to the behavior of one of their own.

That and have tasked one of their own to take care of fixing parking tickets as a de facto constituent service.

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