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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu visited the abandoned Long Island shelter on Boston Harbor. Image via CBS Boston/WBZ Channel 4
– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
The Long Island Bridge
An old photo of the old bridge
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu looks at bringing the abandoned Long Island drug rehabilitation complex back to life.
On a wicked cold morning today that was also the coldest day of the winter season to date, Mayor Wu took a boat ride out to Long Island for a look/see.
In turn, the visit surely chilled to the bone Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch and Squantum NIMBY’s who do not want the CIty of Boston to rebuild its bridge to Long Island on its dime so as to be able to facilitate the reopening of substance rehabilitation facilities two miles and more away from their backyards.
Reasons include how Mayor Wu surely found her cold boat ride as not a particularly viable or comfortable option.to provide daily transportation to and from the Island on top of a myriad of safety reasons why there is no way that ferry service will be approved as the sole means of transportation to and from it.
Out of service ferry to Quincy
A CBS Boston/WBZ Image
Plus, ferry service would cost roughly twice as much as building a new bridge if it was possible to see only ferry service access approved, take roughly twice as long to develop permanent ferry landings, who only how long to score ferry boats, and that ferry service would be far less environmentally green.
In turn, one can thus only assume that in due course Mayor Wu will in due course effect a change in course and so opt to see that the Long Island bridge is rebuilt no matter how much a few Quincy locals might stamp their feet.
Source: Mayor Wu Looks At Bringing Abandoned Long Island Drug Rehab Complex Back To Life
So more traffic is coming!
Ray,
Yes, but probably less to way less than the traffic uptick that impacted your neighborhood given Mayor Koch’s obsequious facilitating of FedEx’s opening up a distributions hub in the half of the former Jordan Marsh warehouse that was not being used by Boston Scientific. Then again, Squantum is special — just ask its residents!!!.
Doesn’t Bellotti live in Squantum?
“Special.”
Nope. Quincy.
Carlie,
When did Bellotti move outta Squantum?
Yes — considerably less traffic than the overwrought predictions would have us believe. Considerably less than the traffic associated with the previous iterations of treatment and recovery programs on Long Island.
Here’s part of a quote from the Lord Mayor from the current PL story about this issue:
“Koch . . . said rebuilding the bridge would place an undue traffic burden on the neighborhood”
But he doesn’t give s _ _ _ about the obvious traffic impacts from any of the projects his pals are throwing up right and left throughout the city’s other neighborhoods.
Also:
“We’ll continue fighting it in court,” said Chris Walker, Koch’s chief of staff, on Tuesday. ”
Will the additional funding to continue this fantasy quest be stolen from Covid relief money the city is receiving? Don’t be surprised.
That’s right. For example, apparently Koch doesn’t think — more likely doesn’t give a damn — that the construction of 200 new apartments as well as retail and restaurants at the Citizen’s Bank and Masonic Temple sites will have traffic impacts in that area. He doesn’t give a damn that nearby residents were opposed to the plans either.
Fred,
Technically, more like shifting around things and so creatively applying some COVID relief funding “indirectly.” Whether or not fed auditors will spot it remains to be seen.
Got it — more three card Monte. More shell-game. More smoke and mirrors.
Business as usual in the Q.
Fred,
A minor quibble, it’s “Koch and mirrors.”