Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: Slow And Slower …

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A consequence of poor track maintenance
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Things got off to a bad start as opposed to got off as in got lucky given word out of the MBTA that rail service on the Braintree Red Line will be replaced by even slower bus service for 24 days in September so as to endeavor to address over 20 slow zones between JFK station and Braintree stations.

How slow has Red Line rail service been on the Braintree Red Line? 

Upwards of twenty-seven minutes of delays are projected to be eliminated on a round trip from Braintree to JFK station or any other further northerly Red Line Station.

Where’s Waldo?
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In other words, the current delay on round trips is leaning on how long a not delayed Braintree Red Line round trip between Braintree and JFK stations used to take.

At the same time, Quincy’s peerless Mayor Thomas P. Koch — and who has also been both the long time Chair of the MBTA Advisory Board and the senior member of the MBTA Bord of Directors  — has been silent on something that would oh so deservedly bite him on his ample tukas if he said anything, including noting that it was a nice day to ride the Red Line on an actually a nice day.

After all, he has taken serious heat in recent weeks in the wake of his grifting himself with an 89% raise on a pension calculation basis come the New Year.

Locals are restless …
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Unfortunately for Mayor Koch, it would appear that public rancor towards him has past the point of perhaps amenable to abating over time to instead viewed as both unforgivable AND accruing serious interest penalties.

Then again, such was only to be expected given that Mayor Koch has in recent years imposed property tax increases on local homeowners by roughly half again greater than most other Massachusetts municipalities.

Fortunately, this example of porking provided some comic relief for long suffering locals.

City workers and equipment sent to change a light
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At the time, the basis for the joke is also an example of why local residential property tax bills are soaring.

The joke?

How many City of Quincy workers does it take to change a light? 

Four.

Amazingly, only four …

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