Quincy Road Hazard! What The Bump? #cityofquincy #tpal #roadhazard

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See the road bump to the right of the white car
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Quincy road hazard!  What the bump?

While out early in the morning on the mean as well as bumpy streets of Quincy on a lovely spring day, Quincy Quarry Mobile Unit 3 came upon something that left even the jaded Quarry personnel in the ride gobsmacked.

What did they find?

As both Quincy locals and commuters are familiar, Newport Avenue near the North Quincy MBTA station has long been as much a roller coaster ride as it is a street given suspect subsoil as well as likely also peat underneath the roadway.

There go a few ice coffees …
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To this, it would appear that someone in the City of Quincy’s Department of Traffic, Parking, Alarm, and Lighting put up a warning sign of an especially large bump in the road as well as did so relatively recently.

While finally taking out the bump would be the better way to go, a warning sign would still be a good idea; if that is, such signage was put in the right places.

The sign on heading Newport heading northerly, however, is less than around seventy feet before the bump and thus provides scant advance warning to all too typically distracted drivers drinking coffee in their also all too typical lumbering SUVs.

See the bump center foreground and the Bump sign AFTER it …
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Even worse, however, the bump warning sign on Newport Avenue heading southerly is roughly seventy feet AFTER the bump.

While Quincy Quarry does not currently have a traffic engineer on staff, one can only properly assume that posting warning signage AFTER the hazard is not the way to do things.

In short, “Only in the Q …”

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