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— News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added

The Coasties have spoken
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The Coast Guard issued its approval of the City of Boston’s design specifications to rebuild its Long Island Bridge in June but inexplicably word of same only just received media coverage.

This delay is most curious as this approval is one of the last consequential approvals needed by Boston to rebuild its bridge to Long Island and thus should have been worthy of more timely media coverage.

Additionally problematic, the state representative who represents Squantum and especially the Ward Councillor for primarily Squantum so scored a platform via the first media announcement of the Coast Guard’s approval to argue, if not also wax idiotic in the case of the ward heeler, against rebuilding the Long Island Bridge.

In brief, while the City of Boston has to soon pro forma present to Quincy’s planning and zoning boards as well as conservation commission that Boston has secured all of the permits it needs to rebuild its bridge, at this point these City of Quincy entities have no viable legal basis to block Boston’s plans to rebuild its bridge.

“Quincy, you have got to be kidding”
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Even so, denial is expected, if not multiple denials.

In turn, if so denied, the City of Boston can seek relatively quick relief in court, including that it is highly likely that Boston can see many, if not all, subsequent appeals by the City of Quincy of any such trial court orders quickly pithed via summary judgement or some other outright rejection of such appeals by the appellate court.

Conversely, the City of Boston could well soon be able file suit to seek damages be paid to it by the City of Quincy over the costs incurred by the City of Boston over Quincy’s long kochblocking of the bridge’s reconstruction and that a successful such lawsuit would have to be funded by local taxpayers.

Local officials piling the bovine byproduct higher as well as deeper
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Similarly, if the City of Quincy does opt to continue its kochotic quest to be the troll who seeks to block Boston’s plans to rebuild its bridge, such will likely also trigger the US Attorney filing an American with Disabilities Act civil rights denial lawsuit against Quincy over its long ongoing kochblocking of the bridge. 

Simply put, no matter what certain city officials might care to next shovel, the ongoing kochblocking of the bridge has been done in violation of all manner of applicable laws so as to mollify Squantum NIMBYs who do not want a drug rehab facility on a wholly City of Boston-owned island in the middle of Boston Harbor even though the island is a mile to two miles away from the NIMBYs’ backyards.

Quincy tax dollars going up in smoke
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Accordingly, If an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit ends up pursued by the feds if City of Quincy officials opt to foolishly preceed most ill-advisedly — something which Mayor Koch’s consiglieri recently as well as problematically let slip might happen as Assistant US Attorneys are apparently still poking around — and then the feds succeed at trial in federal court, such would surely only increase the ask for damages filed by the City of Boston in the appropriate state court .

In short, expect considerable grandstanding by City of Quincy officials in the coming days and weeks as it is an election year and tukases must be covered, considerably to potentially extraordinarily expensive consequences for local taxpayers notwithstanding for such foolhardiness.

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