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Happy Valentine’s Day greeting from the City of Quincy Department of Public Works!
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After the second mild winter in a row, the local frost heave pothole season came and then went as quickly as a change in the weather in New England is all too well-known to do.
Even so, a Quincy Quincy News reader was still able to send along a sweetheart of a photo of a local pothole, if not also a new neighborhood swimming hole.
In any event, it is now time to shift focus to the ultimate source of the problem: the sorry shape of local streets.
Cha-CHING!!!
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How sorry?
Business at local auto repair shops is boffo given suspension damage repairs as well as that tire shops are seeing anecdotally substantial pops in damaged tire replacement sales.
And for a further indication as to how sorry are Quincy streets, while driving about in northwest Quincy drivers can readily tell when they go from traveling on sorry Quincy pavement to solid and smooth-riding Milton asphalt.
Sea Street in front of the City of Quincy Department of Public Works
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Similarly, crossing from Quincy Point into Weymouth over the Fore River Bridge is a comparable revelation.
As such, Quincy Quarry News is asking its ever-growing legions of loyal readers to weight in with their votes and so exposé the worst roadway in Quincy as well as also so rank show, place and also-ran from those nominated for consideration. That and the also allow voters to submit the names of other streets deserving of rebuke.
The City should be paying for all front end repairs on locals’ rides. Mayor Koch’s “we don’t repair roads, we rebuild them” twaddle is getting old. Speak to your local mechanic and ask how people’s vehicle suspensions are holding up. Yet the mayor deserves a huge pay raise? Tell him to do his job and perhaps we’ll consider it.
Finally, a poll that truly matters: which pothole-ridden Quincy street deserves the title of ‘Worst in the Q’? It’s like the Oscars, but for asphalt nightmares. Let’s hope the winner gets a shiny trophy and a swift patch-up job, because driving on these streets feels like navigating a minefield in a bumper car. Keep dodging those craters, Quincy!
The Mount Wollaston Cemetery is certainly deserving of respect and upkeep, but the amount of traffic it receives is minimal and intermittent. However, it now has the finest roadways and associated maintenance of any public place in the entire city. (Adams Greed, er, Green, may be the exception.) But the heavily traveled streets and roads have been neglected and it seems that the city is in a panic to repair some of these horrendous streets. Take a ride on Spear Street. Take a ride on Newcomb Street. Pond Street, which is possibly the worst example of road deterioration in the city is finally getting new underground infrastructure and will then likely be repaved. Maybe.
Have to agree, particularly about Pond St. It isn’t just full of potholes, the entire street is a pothole. The sidewalks, or what used to be sidewalks, are not even recognizable as such. Pathetic — the city should be ashamed.
Marie,
No offense, but Quincy Quarry rechristened Pond Street as Ponds Street a while back given all of its potholes. And as for Ponds Street’s perhaps repaving any time soon, do keep it in mind that SOP is to let underground utility line excavation work settle over a winter before redoing the pavement.
Yes, but you know that Quincy can’t be counted on to follow established SOP.
Having all of these pot holes is a God-send! Drivers in the City of Quincy will have to drive much slower with much more concentration to avoid the axel-breaking and tire exploding pot holes as they plot how they can maneuver around these car-swallowing road hazards. The more pot holes we can have and the deeper they are will certainly reduce the speed which drivers previously used to fly through the City streets to avoid ending up with a ride on the back of a flat bed tow trucks. Just some of these benefits include:
1. Slower drivers will free up the existing police force who were previously constantly enforcing the speed limits and citing speeding drivers in high speed areas so that they can devote more time to monitoring the illegal sexting of other police officers and investigating corruption and missing funds in the City of Quincy.
2. Slower drivers will increase the probability they will not hit or run over as any pedestrians. If, however, they do hit pedestriana, it is more likely the result will be an injury rather than a fatality.
3. Slower drivers will become more likely to stop at STOP signs at City intersections and stop at red lights thus freeing up more of our police force from the constant surveillance they presently provide to ensure the City’s traffic laws are enforced which will allow the police force to have more resources to investigate crime such as package thefts off tax paying residents’ front porches.
4. Slower drivers will result in less car accidents which will result in City of Quincy residents saving money that would otherwise have to be paid to vehicle repair shops or automobile dealers if their car is totaled and a new one has to be purchased. This will allow them to hopefully have the money to pay our higher real estate tax bills.