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Roundabout coming to Quincy?
– News about Quincy covered by Quincy Quarry News
A proper roundabout needs a lot of room to work properly
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In a belated suggested response to the impending deluge of traffic care of the building of four hundred and sixty-five high end for Quincy apartments Azlar Park project at the former site of long gone Quincy Medical Center, there have been early discussions of developing a “roundabout” at the intersection of Whitewall Street with Adams Street.
The rationale for building a roundabout at this intersection?
So as to endeavor to better handle the soon impending increase in traffic when the still under construction apartments at the former hospital site are completed and then fill up with tenants as expected.
Seeing red
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Granted, roundabouts have thoughtful design standards and such which in turn do pose a basis for a new name for a better designed rotaries, the reality is that locals will still view such a roundabout as a rotary by another name, if not also by other names by at least m*sshole drivers.
So what also for the fact that there is next to no way that the proposed roundabout might but perhaps be built before the impeding increase in traffic care of the Azlar Park apartment complex hits the fan.
Further, as well as more importantly, Quincy locals can only reasonably assume that Quincy officials will likely feel free to deviate from roundabout design standards as the currently available space is looking to be tight to develop a proper roundabout, most especially as this roundabout will have to accommodate a five way intersection as opposed to the usual but three or four way intersection “best practices” configuration.
Enough already
A file photo
Either that or undertake yet another expensive eminent domain land taking so as to obtain more land so as to then properly build the proposed roundabout.
In turn, are local taxpayers likely slated to subsidize the cost of both the takings of land and building the roundabout so as to endeavor see Azlar Park’s developer dodge an expensive bullet?
Even more troubling, not only is the proposed roundabout not likely to be built, if ever, until after all of the impending new apartments fill up, no plans are known as to what city officials plan to do to address the Charlie Foxtrot of the nearby congested intersections of Adams Street, Common Street, and Furnace Brook Parkway.
Azlar Park construction site mat spill, left foreground
A Quincy Quarry News file photo
Further yet, there is also no word about what, if anything, might be planned for the intersection of Whitewall Street on its opposite end where it terminates at Quarry Street in what can only reasonably view as a capacity limited tragic signal controlled intersection.
In short, nothing like a little planning.
In fact, pretty much nothing like it at al
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Related non-Quincy Quarry story: California Man Runs Around a Roundabout 415 Times
Call it a run-a-roundabout. Like everything else that’s thought about after it’s under construction in the Q.