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Stacker, a website that crunches data from public and private sources, found that Massachusetts has the fourth-worst roads in the country. Quelle surprise … A Town of Montville CT image.
– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
“So, when do you think the Red Sox might start playing this season?”
A Quincy Quarry file photo of certain DPW workers doing what they are known for doing…
Potholes announce the coming of Spring …
With Opening Day at Fenway Park at least delayed care of greedy team owners, this year’s clarion call for spring will be replaced with potentially expensive thunks from hitting potholes.
Even more problematic, this year should be a bad year for a bumper crop of potholes given that this winter’s especially wild swings in temperatures wreaking havoc on pavement.
Stacker, a website that crunches data from public and private sources, found that Massachusetts has the fourth-worst roads in the country.
Quelle surprise …
And this breaking badly bad news© breaks even worse.
Adding to the misery, an AAA study found that the average cost of damage from hitting a pothole runs $600.00 as well as that one in ten drivers annually suffered damage to their rides from potholes, so yielding a total annual cost of $26.5 billion dollars.
Even so, the head of the City of Quincy’s Department of Public Works tried to deflect criticism with the following.
Mayor Koch’s tank of a ride is pothole damage resistant
A Quincy Quarry News file photo
if only Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch was noticing that the City of Quincy’s computer networks are full of potholes, however, rumor has it that he does not (directly?) use (city?) computers.
That and required that his friends at FoxRcck would see to it that the rough pavement on Whitwell Street caused by FoxRock’s outsized residential redevelopment on the former site of Quincy Medical Center was duly fixed.
There is, however, a bright spot.
Two actually,
One, the City of Quincy will reimburse the cost incurred from potholes iF the pothole has been duly reported to the city BEFORE one might suffer damage from it.
FIX THE #@%&$* POTHOLE!!!
A file photo
And the other: have fun reporting away, if not also burying the city with pothole reports via its Pothole Hotline reporting options.
One can phone it in or undertake the effort needed to file an online complaint.
While the online option allows one to attach smartphone photos, Quincy Quarry would suggest that complaints be sure to provide a good address as a clear description of the location of the pothole no matter how one files a pothole complaint so as to fend off the city from claiming that a damage-causing pothole had not been reported and thus refuse to provide reimbursement for damage suffered.
Source: A sure sign spring is on the way: South Shore roads riddled with potholes
So what did the mayor do when he noticed the unplowed handicapped parking spots in front of his office?
NOTHING!
___holes run the city!
And interestingly enough, many of last years potholes are still with us. They seem to have extraordinary longevity in the Q. I’d even suspect that there are some from the year before last.
Dom,
Hate to be the one to tell you, but the “potholes” inside of City Hall and at the DPW have been around even longer than but a couple years.
I think those are a different kind of holes.