Quincy Post-storm Trafficking Recap

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Risking checking in center ice …
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Quincy post-storm trafficking recap.

For the most part, Quincy dodged the worst of the Tuesday night into Wednesday early morning nor’easter as compared to other communities in Eastern Massachusetts.

While trees fell and branches blew down here and there throughout Quincy, for the most part, the loss of electric power locally was limited and mostly short in length. 

At least compared as to what happened to a number of other communities that also suffer National Grid as their electricity source.

That and there was the occasional boat whose owner did not it pull out of the water and then instead it broke loose from its moring and then ended up on the rocks.

Every driver out for her or himself …
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The biggest problem from the storm, however, was most likely the out of service traffic lights suffered at and adjacent to the very busy intersection of Burgin and Hannon Parkways as well as the nearby intersection of Parkingway and Hannon Parkway and at which Quincy Quarry News personnel happened upon while out and about looking for news on the mean as well as now leaves-laden streets of Quincy.

Shortly after lunchtime on Thursday and thus a full day after the storm had abated, an intrepid Quincy Quarry newshound happened upon the out-of-service traffic lights.

Not only was traffic so backed up to a far thee well during a normally minimal traffic time of the day, but there was also no sign of any Quincy police officers directing traffic.

LIghts out …
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On a bright note, however, the City of Quincy Traffic, Parking, Alarm, and Light Department did have personnel on the scene working on the not working traffic signals controller.

Unclear, however, is why the relatively new traffic signals were out of order was not obvious as there were no signs of any storm or other damage inflicted upon any of the traffic signals or their controller.

Further troubling is why were the lights out at what is one of the busiest intersections in Quincy fully a day and then some after the nor’easter had abated?

Then again, with TPAL now headed by someone who perhaps may not yet be thirty-something and who was but a part-time substitute school teacher and then an administrative assistant at TPAL, one can surely come up with plausible scenarios as to why trafficking in Quincy Center was yet again such a Charlie Foxtrot.

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