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– News about Quincy Massachusetts from Quincy Quarry News
Even the skid mark from the accident remains …
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With Quincy Mayor Koch’s proposed budget proposing serious raises for senior Koch Machine suits, Quincy Quarry has opted to spot check the performance of city departments.
In this instance, the City’s awkwardly named Traffic, Parking, Alarm, and Light Department (“TPAL”).
The assessment metric used by the Quarry Quarry News?
The status on replacing a pedestrian crossing traffic signal on Burgin Parkway that was whacked on St. Patrick’s Day.
The whacked traffic signal on the day after St. Patrick’s Day
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The traffic signal is still missing and such poses a readily liability risk for the City of Quincy and thus ultimately local taxpayers if someone is struck while crossing Burgin Parkway in the crosswalk given insufficient signalling.
Even so, the Director of TPAL is slated for a 15.5% raise to a new salary of $141,179 a year in Mayor Koch’s budget.
All in all, not bad for someone who not all that many years ago was but a substitute teacher as well as had no traffic management experience before he scored employment at the TPAL Department.
Soon to be retiring Quincy Police Chief and Mayor Koch;s brother-in-law Paul “The Beav” Keenan
A City of Quincy head shot
Conversely, his number two, the City of Quincy’s Traffic Engineer and who actually has germane education as well as holds an appropriate licensure, is only looking at a proposed 11% raise at a job where the market rate salary for someone with her skills is higher, if not much higher.
That and how her qualifications are also arguably thus better to much better than those of her boss.
The Quarry was also hoping to find out if the hit and run driver who whacked the pedestrian traffic signal had been identified and then duly cited for a moving violation as well as hit with the bill for replacing the whacked signal, however, the Quincy Police Department is not known for being forthcoming as regards pedestrian-related traffic accidents.
Looks like the Traffic, Parking, Alarm, and Light Department (“TPAL”) amalgam is a failure on three of its four designated responsibilities. If parking were involved in this situation, the smart money says it would have failed on that account as well.
Yeah, but there are some nice orange traffic cones there.