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Kochblocking traffic during the AM commute
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Natural Resources Department truck kochblocks morning commute on Sea Street.
In what is both a first as well as a new low for koching-up traffic in Quincy comes a report from a Quincy Quarry News Citizen Traffic Reporter of a CIty of Quincy Department of Natural Resouces’ truck blocking off one lane of Sea Street such that Nekkers heading to work this morning were stuck in traffic just before Sea Street’s intersection with Quincy Shore Drive.
Granted, one can appreciate seeing someone at the Department of Natural Resources, née Park and Recreation Department, actually off to an early start on her but far more likely his workday.
Commuters seeing red
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At the same time, one still has to find serious, if not also grave fault with so jamming one of the busier roadways in Quincy during the height of the morning commute.
Plus, as near as the Quincy Quarry Citizen Traffic Reporter could tell, the Natural Resources Department worker appeared to be cleaning the island along the middle of Sea Street.
So what, apparently, for the fact that not only is the traffic island is not landscaped – at least not at this point, and thatroad maintenance is supposed to be the responsibility of the Highway Department unit within the City of Quincy’s Department of Public Works.
Never even entered their minds that if they were going to block traffic during a rush hour time frame, it might be a better idea to block the traffic going in the other — non-rush — direction? And if there was damage, let’s say, on that side of the center divider itself, repairs could have been accomplished — are you sitting down for this? — later in the day when traffic would be heaviest in the other direction. It’s difficult to imagine what they were(n’t) thinking.