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This week’s pedestrian whacking crash scene
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Weymouth announced receipt of $336,000 from the federal Department of Transportation via its Safe Streets For All program.
No indications, however, of the City of Quincy also seeing any such funding in spite of the need to address local traffic safety concerns even if only to address Quincy’s higher than statewide rates of as well as ongoing increase in pedestrian whacklngs.
In any event, said Bill Scully — a senior project manager at Kimley-Horn and who is working with the Town of Weymouth on traffic safety — at a recent town council meeting, “(w)e’re trying to achieve zero fatalities and substantially reduce serious-injury crashes that occur (in Weymouth, ed.),”
A threeway crash at the intersection of Washington Street and Southern Artery
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Conversely, no words out of anyone with the City of Quincy of late or even for a while as to addressing the ever-increasingly mean as well as dangerous streets of Quincy.
Then again, the Koch Administration so acknowledging to dangerous traffic problems as well as trafficking in Quincy would be to admit that Quincy has such problems as well as many others.
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One of the big traffic problems Weymouth faces are the drivers from Quincy. So, do I get a piece of the $336,000 for my part of the study?
Great news for Weymouth, but what about Quincy!!!! Traffic safety is crucial for our community’s well-being, and this federal grant would have been better for Quincy.