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Boston Mayor Wu checking out City of Boston facilities on Long Island
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With the few remaining final approvals needed to rebuild the bridge expected to be signed off shortly or court-ordered if needed yet again, the City of Boston is now seeking to line up a project manager by the end of the year to oversee the rebuilding of its bridge.
Quincy Quarry’s media brethren NBC Boston 10 extensively reported on this latest development via both text and two videos.
Boston’s Mayor Michelle Wu seeks to see the bridge rebuild and various old buildings on Long Island renovated as soon as practicable so as to resume hosting substance abuse treatment services as well as additional multi-faceted programming on Long Island so as to address all too often concurrent problems of mental ill-health and homelessness.
Of particular interest to Boston taxpayers, much of what Boston plans to spend on needed infrastructure is already funded with funds on hand as opposed to debt-financed as is typically imposed upon Quincy taxpayers whenever Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch opts to build yet another extravagant Edifice Complex.
Notorious illegal parking trafficker in Quincy parking under cover of darkness
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For example, the roughly $81 million earmarked by Mayor Wu to help pay for rebuilding the bridge was largely funded via parking ticket fines.
Full speed ahead by the City of Boston notwithstanding and as is pointed out in NBC Boston 10’s coverage, Quincy residents in Squantum continue to express that they they are not in support of Bostons’ legal rights to rebuild its bridge.
Squantum residents do not want traffic passing by a handful of dozens of residences along a short run of road on but a small portion of the Squanutum shoreline on its way to an island in the middle of Boston Harbor and thus a mile to as much as two miles away from their backyards.
That and all but assuredly also do not want homeless with substance abuses and other issues anywhere not even near Squantum, much less merely passing through Squantum as passengers in a City of Boston paid for rides on their way out to Long Island.
Squantum residents also apparently continue to mistakenly believe Quincy Mayor Koch will somehow or other be able to stop the City of Boston from rebuilding its bridge and so resume traffic headed to and from its island as in years past as such transit is grandfathered by law as well as variously further allowed per other applicable laws.
Granted, Quincy Quarry News expects Mayor Koch to continue to affect plans to stop Boston from rebuilding its bridge.
Oy Gutt, not those schmeckles from Quincy yet again ..
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At the same time, however, Quincy Quarry has reviewed the City of Quincy’s recent appeal of the Massachusetts Environmental Protection Agency’s Chapter 91 approval of the City of Boston’s plans to rebuild its bridge and found it flaccid.
Accordingly, the relatively few Quincy opponents of the bridge are down to hoping against hope that city officials will undertake baseless final stunts that could well instead result in ALL Quincy taxpayers ending up on the hook to cover the nut for a potentially serious damages sought lawsuit filed against the City of Quincy — especially if the United States Attorney for Massachusetts opts to seek that sanctions be imposed upon the City of Quincy over violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act for the city’s long trying to koch block the City of Boston’s plans to rebuild its bridge.
Squantum residents must like being blatantly pandered to in an election year.
With Mayor Koch pretty much down to Squantum after variously burning most every other neighborhood in Quincy, Squantum residents can pretty much name the tunes. Until ALL local taxpayers might be looking at paying out serious damages c/o litigation filed against the City of Quincy over Mayor Koch playing troll to Boston’s plans to rebuild its bridge, that is.
Anyone know how much legal fees for this charade are running so far?
Marie,
While as should come as no surprise, a proper accounting has not been provided by the infamously opaque Koch Maladministration.
Even so, upwards of a couple million or perhaps even more would be a fair estimate of the total cost of both direct spending on this and that as well as not duly cost accounted time spent by city officials specifically wasting some of their time mostly wasteful on this matter.
To date, that is, as well as before damages might be sought by the City of Boston over the costs it has incurred given the City of Quincy’s long trying in vain to koch-block Boston from rebuilding its bridge.
If such happens, figure on at least a mid-eight figure damages claim if Boston ends up able to press a viable cause of action against the City of Quincy.