– News about Quincy Massachusetts from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

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So much for plowing but sorta close to the curb …
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Quincy digs out after the Bombogenesis blizzard of 2022.

As are many local residents, Quincy Quarry News is still digging out from its piles of snow images gathered during the storm as well as what it left behind after it blew out to sea.

For example, the Quincy Quarry photos featured in this Quarry feature were taken late Sunday morning.

Needless to say, while for the most part major local streets were plowed wide, the plowing was not always at least close to the curb.

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The Crane Library looks right out of the Call of the Wild
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And then there is the problem with covered with snow sidewalks along the perimeter of city properties.

Other than, of course, Kim Jong Koch Plaza in front of City Hall as photo-documented in this story’s featured photo.

On top of the obvious problems of forcing pedestrians to run the risk of walking along the edge of snow-piles narrowed streets that have long been becoming ever-increasingly meaner even during the best of conditions, there is the clear problem with how city snow plowers are not responsibly honoring the intent of complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act as corner curb cuts are often covered over with tall piles of frozen snow.

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So much for making life a little easier for the less able among us?
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Then again, the local disability commission did not hold a meeting for years during the reign of the Koch Machine until after considerable complaints forced Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch to reload the commission with hand-picked coat holders who now occasionally met even if so far the commission members look to have not yet addressed any of many merely but access problems facing the less able to be readily able to travel out and about.

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