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Road and below grade utilities reconstruction is underway most everywhere in Quincy.

This construction season’s road rework includes work variously in the works on the major local arterial roadways of Adams Street, Coddington Street, Furnace Brook Parkway, Hannon Parkway, Hancock Street, Newport Avenue, Quincy Avenue, Sea Street, Southern Artery, lesser arterials such as East Howard Street, and who only knows how many residential side streets.

Even so, City Hall has talked up all of these road projects as, well, a deflection so as to endeavor to mitigate understandable complaints.

Quincy Mayor Koch’s redone years ago street in North Quincy
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Amazingly, to best to of Quincy Quarry News understanding anyway, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s Chief of Staph and other communicable diseases Pinocchio Pinocchio Walkbacker has not tried to shovel it that all of the roadwork this year is also a key component of a citywide traffic calming initiative.

At the same time, however, also no word as to why so many projects on almost all major local streets are underway this year and especially this month while the Red Line is also shutdown for for repairs.

Further, how the projects are going baits additional questions. 

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For example as well as in particular, mId-Sea Street’s reconstruction  has not only been a hot mess, Quincy Quarry’s construction consultant has advised Quincy Quarry that the general contractor on this road project looks to be variously out of compliance with the project’s contract and permitting terms.  Even so, local officials are looking to be letting things slide.

After all, campaign fund donations matter.

In particular regarding the municipal sloth, the key person who should be stepping to the plate on behalf of impacted Houghs Neck and Post Island residents has instead yet again been missing.

Further troubling is that Quincy Quarry News is unaware of any duly scheduled rework of Whitwell Street as at this point it is a pothole patched run of pavement masquerading as a major local roadway.

A sideways porta potty at FoxRock’s Hospital Hill apartment construction project
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Similarly, Quincy Quarry is unaware of any word if Foxrock will be contributing to the cost of any eventual road renewal of Whitwell.

After all, the construction of its outsized and posterior ugly five hundred-plus apartment complex where once Quincy had its only hospital is a key to the prime reason going away for Whitwell to be one of the bumpiest runs of road in Quincy.

Further problematic is how after over sixteen years in office one can only fairly wonder why the Koch Maladministration is so far behind the curve on what is one of the most basic of municipal services: taking care of local streets.

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After all, Braintree and Weymouth streets are in good condition, not to mention that drivers and their passengers tuchuses readily sense when passing from bumpy to worse Quincy streets to the typically smooth Milton streets and vice versa.

Further, even the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation is doing a relatively much better job of maintaining its runs of Furnace Brook Parkway and Quincy Shore Drive as well as a bit of Willard Street than is the City of Quincy is doing with local streets.

In the meanwhile, however, pretty much only local auto repair and tire shops, paving contractors, and police officers working road construction details are making out. 

Making out like, well, bandits.

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