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Setting up the short podium for the announcement
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image
The long-needed renovation of the Quincy Center MBTA station renovation takes a step forward.
While out and about working the ever-increasingly mean as well as congested streets of Quincy, Quincy Quarry News reporter happened on public sector personnel setting up a podium near the Quincy Center MBTA station for a presser to announce a $100 million MBTA plan to finally renovate the Charlie Foxtrot that is the T’s busiest transit hub south of Boston.
In turn, Quincy Quarry News was yet again so able to scoop both the South Shore broadsheet as well as the local weekly tabloid.
A Blown out Red Line train window blown out at Quincy Station give fire event
An MBTA Passenger Twitter Photo via Catherine Groux
The Quincy Center MBTA station’s now-former parking garage was condemned and so closed to use over eleven years ago and the garage was years later mostly demolished over two construction seasons.
The currently plan to redo the Quincy Center MBTA station is substantially revised from prior plans.
The key change is that the long-planned by the Koch Administration construction of a below grade bus station both along and underneath Burgin Parkway is not happening and so avoiding a mini Big Dig mess impacting traffic on the Quincy’s primary crosstown thoroughfare that is Burgin Parkway and Newport Avenue.
Offsetting bad news, however, is that the new plan is develop a surface bus station along Burgin Parkway on the Burgin side of the station and so adding many hundreds of buses daily to the already considerable traffic on Quincy’s major throughfare.
Bracing up of what is left of the now-former Quincy Center MBTA parking garage
A Quincy Quarry News file photo image
Further bad news, while Quincy Quarry was advised that the MBTA is planning to makeover the routing and such for the buses that stop at at the Quincy Center station, there are limits to what can be done about how moving the bus platform will add roughly a mile as well as inflict a handful of traffic signals to the round trips of many to most of the bus routes that cycle through Quincy Center.
Additionally problematic, a construction timeline was not provided in response to Quincy Quarry’s ask as planning work is still in process.
In particular, the MBTA is still in the process of a long-going consideration if the remaining two levels of the Quincy Center Station parking floors can be recycled or if they have to be replaced at surely additional cost.
And finally, the MBTA will not be building any parking for starphangers. Rather, it will only be building piers which someone or entity can use as foundations to finally replace the T’s long-gone parking garage as well as also pay for a new garage.
“My doing – all my doing …:
A old Facebook image
Regardless, while Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch will be talking up his essential role in seeing a new station happen, the reality is that he has been for over decade the Chair of the MBTA Advisory Board and more recently a member of the MBTA Board of Directors.
In any event, the renovation of the Quincy Center MBTA station is long overdue.
Wicked long overdue.
I hope they do fix it, its been YEARS since any renovations have been done!