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Frozen solid 3 days after the freezing rain storm
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While out and about on the ever-increasingly mean as well as lately freezing cold streets of Quincy on Friday, Quincy Quarry News personnel happened up quite a contrast in the CIty of Quincy’s responding to the snowfall late last Monday and then freezing rain during the evening commute the next day that covered much of Quincy with an icy coating.
The contrast? The primary pedestrian walkway on the Paul Herold Bridge — once long derided as “The Bridge to Nowhere” — that spans the MBTA tracks near the Petco in Quincy Center was found to be a frozen solid as well as dangerous slip and slide.
All but no sign of snow or ice along the Generals Bridge
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As one can clearly also see from Quincy Quarry News’ exclusive image (above left), the pedestrian way is well-traveled.
Conversely, look to the picture of the Generals Bridge (right) — a bridge Quincy Quarry has dubbed “The Bridge No One Uses.”
As one can readily also see, the Bridge No One Uses was yet again thoroughly cleaned down to the payment even if essentially no vehicles use this bridge as well as that pedestrians are surely as well as understandably afraid of using the bridge so as to cross Burgin Parkway.
A St Patrick’s Eve Burgin Parkway at the Generals Bridge traffic victim
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Then again, as well as fortunately, there is no good reason for pedestrians to risk crossing Burgin Parkway via the Generals Bridge.
None whatsoever.
At the same time, there still remains the obvious as well as more pressing question: why perfectly clear a bridge and its pedestrian walkways of snow and ice if next to no one ever uses them?
For starters, Kim Jong Koch Plaza’s arguably obsessive Snow Team Six has all but exclusively been tasked with caring for the Generals Bridge, nearby Generals Park, and adjacent landscaping.
“City on the Move …”
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So what, apparently, for relying on City of Quincy Department of Public Works and Department of Natural Resources personnel who all but invariably are tasked with taking care of such city infrastructure elsewhere.
Such is further problematic as KIm Jong Koch Plaza’s Snow Team Six personnel are supposedly paid via surplus tax revenue arising from Quincy’s Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s instead looking to be running in the red plan to see Quincy Center redeveloped.
How deeply into the red?
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Image via a Koch campaign mailer
Rather than yield enough enhanced tax revenue after covering the debt service incurred to pay for new infrastructure built in Quincy Center as was long touted would happen by Mayor Koch so that all property taxpayers citywide would see some tax relief when he was seeking the approval of hundreds of million dollars in taxpayer-backed debt issued to pay for his grandiose plans for a “New Quincy Center,” his plans now instead looking to be currently running several to a handful of millions of dollars in the red this year on an annual operating basis.
Even more painful, pretty much more of the same financial deficit is looking likely to mostly follow in coming years for decades.
Shell game, Koch and mirrors — whatever …
Image via Margaret Street Church of Christ
Then again, not to worry as the rumored coming to Quincy Center Trader Joe’s Market in perhaps a couple years or thereabouts will more than make up for the fact that Mayor Koch’s grand as well as free spending makeover of Quincy Center is looking to be a money loser, if not also a serious loser, for local taxpayers who are looking to be stuck with subsidizing the bills until roughly 2050 or thereabouts.
That and other outsized municipal debt service both pending and expected to hit the fan in coming years.
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Conjoined images via LBC Boston
Further, local property taxpayers citywide are looking to be hit with subsidizing many tens of millions, if not into hundreds of millions, of various “incentives” handed out to Quincy Center developers who surely but coincidentally happen to be generous to very generous contributors to Koch’s campaign fund.
Bridge to nowhere. In the next 5 years that bridge will be the access to at least 4 major condo developments. All the parking garages will go via that bridge. Lots of condos, enough to swing any election.
Johnson,
FYI: of the five residential projects variously talked up in the immediate vicinity of the Generals Bridge, NONE of them are proposing to offer condominiums for sale.
Renters, on the other hand, don’t much vote and such plays nicely into the Koch Machine’s hand as a left-handed manner of voter suppression.
Next, Koch’s proposed mega garage at the current site of the I Hop will be variously less than convenient to tenants in these proposed apartment building projects, if not also would be viewed as unsafe by many prospective tenants regardless of any and all security features incorporated.
In short, think a camel designed by a committee.
On the other hand, the well-contributing to Koch’s campaign fund and thus local go to towing service is going to do boffo business hauling away wrecked rides at the woefully ill-configured Generals Bridge and Burgin Parkway intersection once the area immediately around the bridge might actually be built out.
In short, another camel designed by a committee.
Next up, overall Koch’s grandiose plans for “A New Quincy Center” is now running in the red on annual basis with local taxpayers looking to be stuck with covering the shortfall going forward, shortfalls which will likely continue to be the case for most future years until around 2050 or thereabouts.
As for why, quick and dirty, Koch has overspent as well as spent too early on infrastructure in Quincy Center while at the same time handing out tens of millions in taxpayer-subsidized incentives to mostly connected developers who are making out like bandits on their projects.
In turn, this year’s record city budget spending increase is only just the beginning of likely to be pretty much more of the same given Koch’s myriad of missteps.
I always thought driving through the area, that whereever there is blue sky, there will be a cookie cutter 7 to 14 story building. Not just the bridge area, but the whole Bergy pkwy. Massive building, Q will be like Boston. More like Cambridge, you can see the buildings. Ugly too
Welcome to “The New Quincy” …