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Quincy road maintenance found wanting and pothole season is starting early this year …
– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
Kinda hard to miss this crack …
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Quincy Quarry Mobile One was out and about cruising the ever-increasingly mean and lately also cold streets of Quincy looking for news in recent days and so found it: the streets themselves.
For starters, recent repaving of streets was found to be suspect.
Case in point, Willard Street in West Quincy.
Not only was the newer pavement surface along Willard found to be less than consistent and so suggesting suspect work, manhole covers were not reset so as to be aligned with the new road surface.
As such, the manholes ended up “doughnuted” around them with manual paving work on the order of pothole patching.
Poor pothole patching.
Wicked poor pothole patching.
Business as usual …
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So shoddy a practice that Quincy Quarry’s pavement desk did not know of a term for such koched-up so-called work product as no other municipality or MassDOT would tolerate such poor work.
Other problems found were ongoing problems.
For example, an abject lack of filling cracks and so leaving cracked pavement to ready frost heave damage even when obvious on a busy major local arterial.
Also, Quincy Quarry found potholes, perfectly positioned wheel rim busting potholes that were also de facto ponds along Revere Road in front of the relatively new Kilroy Garage near the Quincy District Courthouse.
Care to take a polar plunge into this water hole? Center right foreground?
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Actually, to be correct, these potholes featured ponds until the water in them freezes overnight and so make them ready for pick-up street hockey games.
Accordingly, Quincy Quarry News can only properly advise local drivers of the following.
Per Massachusetts General Law, local municipalities are obligated to reimburse motor vehicle owners for damage inflicted upon their rides if the pothole causing it has been reported to the city wherein the damaging pothole is located.
The key is that the pothole must be duly reported to the City of Quincy.
As such, Quincy Quarry News is both encouraging its ever-growing legions to report potholes as well as as often as possible.
My rim is busted. Reimburse me!
A file photo meme
One can either email the Department of Public Works’ Highway Division at [email protected] or call (617) 376-1914.
Granted, the report must have been submitted as well as actually both logged into to the City’s of Quincy’s to make a claim as surely the massive number of local potholes as the City’s map of pothole problems is surely incomplete..
Reasons for this suspicion: on top of the usual shortcomings of the Koch Maladministration, the Quarry’s Automotive Desk has advised the City Editor that last year was a banner year for automotive suspension repair work at local auto repair shops.
Certain DPW workers doing what they are know for doing
A Quincy Quarry News file photo
Also, granted while one will likely not report the pothole that takes out one’s ride as one should remember where one saw it, the more readers report on potholes the more likely it will be for those who do so to pay it forward and vice versa.
Alternatively, as the above pictured pothole on Revere Road has been reported, the Quarry cannot stop anyone from reporting it as the cause of damage inflicted upon to their ride.
At the same time, good luck seeing the city process a pothole damage claim in a timely manner or otherwise for that matter.
After all, we are talking about the Koch Maladministration.
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The streets of Quincy are a complete disaster. The roads should be a lot better with all the money they get from excise taxes. Fix the Damn roads
CherylAnn,
The condition of local roads is further inexcusable given the millions the City of Quincy sees in the way of Chapter 90 road maintenance funds from the state, millions more in project-specific funding from the state, and the proceeds from a $100 million local bond issue that is supposed to be spent over a few fiscal years on road repairs . Money is thus not the issue; rather, it is repaving project management quality control and regular maintenance shortcomings.
That and priorities in general. Case in point, the mayor’s street enjoyed a full makeover, including new concrete sidewalks and underground utilities, a handful of years ago even though the old street and sidewalks were in good shape in general as well as in great shape per Quincy standards.
Come on, man! The hate here does not rest!
All haters must drive around Boston, Braintree, Milton, and Weymouth before opening your pie hole!
The city’s thousands of miles of roads are very well maintained.
Cheryl Ann likely does not even drive!
Porky,
I am a plumber and spend a lot time traveling on the streets of Boston, Braintree, Milton, Weymouth as well as Quincy and elsewhere to get to my repair gigs.
No argument, Boston streets are sketchy — but I would rather snake Cousin Eddie’s shitter and drain his “Black Water” storage tank then drive on Quincy’s far worse streets.
If it is not illegal to impersonate a plumber, it should be! No plumber would rather snake a drain than cruise around in the company whip. Nice try!
Porky,
I am self-employed. Perch and twirl slimeball.
Pork Chop,
Quincy only has around 230 miles of road per the Koch Maladministration.
Then again, one can readily imagine the Koch Machine losing track of thousands of miles more of road that you claim exist as such would help explain the sorry condition of local streets.
Two hundred thirty miles is the distance from Quincy to Manhattan. Quincy DPW does a fantastic job maintaining all those miles of road, not to mention sidewalks.
Moreover, Quincy has a dedicated website to report potholes to the DPW, and their response time is usually within 48 hours. Potholes happen but are quickly filled.
Go find some news!
Chop Chop
Walking back from your “… city’s thousands of miles of roads …” canard I see.
SEA St, right in front of the DPW itself. Let’s have a picture.
Johnson,
Pleased be advised that Quincy Quarry’s latest student intern has been assigned to do a drive-by shooting along Sea Street in the vicinity of the DPW’s office building in QQ’s mil-spec Humvee as soon as possible AFTER Amazon delivers the crash helmet ordered for her — QQ’s HR and Legal Departments want nothing to do with a workers’ comp claim arising from such a perilous driving assignment, especially given what all has happened to a number of previous QQ interns.
If you just record the road from the police station to to reserve center. It will really pose a question, “How can the DPW not see the road they drive on to get to work.”