— News about Quincy Massachusetts from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Planter beds or obstacle course?
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While out and about on the ever-increasingly mean as well as thus also dangerous streets of Quincy, Quincy Quarry News personnel happened up new problems along a run of sidewalk along Hancock Street near Quincy’s two city halls.that is also now even more dangerous than before.

That and problems further left the Quincy Quarry landscape design and grounds maintenance desk gobsmacked.

The problems?

The raised planters along the sidewalks near Kim Jong Koch plaza and which have thus already long been dangerously problematic. 

Not only are the beds too close to the curb and so often dinging car doors when passengers endeavor to exit their rides as well as then trip them, the beds have also long had issues with their ground cover.  

Ratty, if not also perhaps rat-infested, old planter bed plantings
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The problems with the ground cover are multiple as well as inexcusable. 

On top of the ground cover originally planted dying back something ugly during the cold time of the year, whatever it was that was originally planted was also a trash magnet and — per a typical Koch machine culpability deflecting demur — was failing to thrive given that the irrigation system for the apparently thirsty ground cover was defective from the start.

In short, so much, apparently, for project design, project management, and quality control efforts by the all too often as well as long cavalier Koch Maladministration.

Louisburg Square? NOT!!!
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In any event, given the above problems, steps were taken, including digging out the old irrigation system, installing a new irrigation system, planting as well as  different plants, and more.

The more added included adding an expensive decorative chain fencing feature around the perimeter of the beds that is reminiscent of Louisburg Square on Beacon Hill, not that anyone will ever confuse Quincy Center, much less anywhere in Quincy, for Beacon Hill.

Decorative touch notwithstanding, one can only assume that the new chain planter borders will surely increase the number of trips and falls already caused by the ill-advised raised planter beds and their even more problematic placement so close to the curb.

Size matters. Just ask her
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In particular, what with the trees planted along Hancock Street in recent years filling in nicely, if not also densely, one cannot help but suspect that street light lighting will be impacted detrimentally, especially during the dark, cold, and often also icy/slippery time of the year.

So much such so that one can only assume that personal injury victims advocate John Morgan may well find it remunerative to open up a local office in one of the long vacant storefronts adjacent to the T-Mobile® store in the still privately-owned Munroe Residences building.  After all, his firm has long had a billboard a block away down Hancock Street towards North Braintree.

And as for the new choice of plantings, Quincy Quarry News landscape design critic Frederick “Cinco” Law Olmstead V shook his head. 

For starters, Cinco noted that while the newly planted hostas are attractive, as they are perennials they will die back completely during the winter and so require the clearing  away of their winter kill as well as leave the planter beds bare for much of the year.

Tulips are beloved harbingers of spring!
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As such, he suggested instead going with wicked low maintenance pachysandra as well as add in some tulip bulbs so as provide some early spring color.

Additionally noted, as the Koch Machine is going with mulch in the open areas between the hostas planted such poses the need for weeding and regular raking, efforts that Kim Jong Koch Plaza’s Snow Team Six has not been known to do, outside of Kim Jong Koch Plaza proper that is. 

Then again, it is a local elections year and there are always idiot sons-in-law available to add along side of those already dining at the public trough.

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