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Huh?
A Boston Globe image
Obvious head scratchier over a radio station providing a news video notwithstanding, Quincy Quarry’s media brethren at WBZ Radio 1030 AM has recently promulgated a video on social media that poses and then answers questions about air rights development over highways and railways.
Specifically, WBZ Radio looked to the hotel and Star Market built over the Mass Pike and adjacent rail road tracks in Newton many decades ago.
While admittedly more of a slice of life story feature as opposed to a hard-hitting to stones exposé, this WBZ Radio video did bring up a few insightful points about air rights developments.
In particular, as regards noise.
The hotel above the highway @wbznewsradio pic.twitter.com/zvBTmhfbbS
— Matt Shearer (@MattWBZ) May 2, 2024
Air rights development strip mall Charlie Foxtrot
A Quincy Quarry News file photo
And as for how air rights development might apply to Quincy, all one has to do is look to the outsized and problematic Abby apartments development in North Quincy for Exhibit A.
At a minimum, people have long been dissed over living on the wrong side of the tracks.
Accordingly, what does one say now about those who live over the tracks or at least above them as well as nearby?
More importantly, plenty more and then some can surely be said about those behind such developments with little of it positive given that in least Quincy such projects end up as the outcome of a committee tasked to design a camel..
“Have I got a plan for you!”
Image via a Koch mailer
Further troubling for Quincy residents is that Quincy’s peerless mayor is yet again talking up even more of the same in Quincy Center along with continuing to push his intertwined as well as variously problematic under the radar plan developed with essentially no community input to makeover the Quincy Center MBTA station with a scheme that has all of makings to bury Quincy Center in a mini Big Dig.
In short, as well as yet again, Only in Quincy …
Because when I think cutting-edge visual storytelling, I immediately turn to my trusty AM radio. Nothing quite screams ‘modern media’ like a video from a radio station. Maybe next, they’ll start podcasting print articles. Stay tuned for WBZ Radio’s groundbreaking interpretive dance about traffic updates.
Branching out into visual storytelling? How quaint. Maybe next they’ll start a podcast about interpretive dance. But hey, if they can make air rights development as thrilling as a cat video, more power to them. I’ll bring the popcorn and try not to fall asleep during the climax of steel beams rising into the sky. Riveting stuff, really.