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While out and about on the mean as well as this week cold streets of Quincy, Quincy Quarry News personnel happened upon a head scratcher of a find even per the Quarry’s experience.
The find?
Two steel poles installed in the middle of a bicycle lane along McConville Way in Quincy Center.
Needless to say, this find was on a par with the thirty telephone polls in the middle of a new elevated bike lane on Needham Street in Newton that were exposéd by the Quarry’s median brethren at WBZ TV this week.
On the other hand, as the telephone poles are tied to a MassDOT road improvement project no more need be added.
Even so, as well as in all fairness, the Quincy Quarry News reporter asked why the steel poles were installed along McConville Way.
The answer provided: so as to be able to later install a gate in impending fencing that will be cordoning off an impending construction project and thus understandable even if not exactly duly coned off or otherwise made safe for the precious few cyclists who ride along McConville Way in the meanwhile.
Previously torn up hardscaping for naught along McConville Way
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Unclear, however, is what is planned for the expensive hardscaping and landscaping along the adjacent sidewalk and setback area.
After all, this very same hardscaping and landscaping were expensively removed and then replaced previously when construction that was expected to happen ended up not happening.
Then again, surely the at least fourth time will be the charm for redeveloping the adjacent long vacant land.
Where the city planning motto is clearly: ‘Hold my Dunkin’—watch this!’ Steel poles in the middle of a bike lane? Genius. Who needs basic safety or functional infrastructure when we can keep cyclists on their toes (and hopefully out of the ER)? It’s like a real-life obstacle course, except instead of a medal, you win a lawsuit.
Honestly, I can’t wait for the sequel: ‘Benches Installed On The Interstate’ or ‘Crosswalks That End In Brick Walls.’ If this was some avant-garde art installation meant to symbolize the struggles of urban commuters, 10/10, Quincy. But if not? Maybe it’s time we start using blueprints instead of cocktail napkins for city planning meetings.
“Who needs basic safety or functional infrastructure when we can keep cyclists on their toes . . . ”
Exactly.
Quincy Center as well as the rest of Quincy have been turned into some kind of bizarre video game. The first rule of the game is — you can’t win. But if you live in the Q you can certainly pay. And pay. And pay. And . . .
What, you don’t care to live action play “Frogger, the Quincyopoly edition”?
I don’t think Koch has been on a bike in many years. General Dynamics would have to construct something that could carry Chris Christie’s little brother by another mother. Maybe a bike with a basket to pick up all his campaign checks from developers and city employees. In any event, the mayor’s staff deserves a prize for having our pot-bellied mayor stand under the Fat Boy BBQ sign — a booby prize. Quincy Quarry that pic gets the News Award of the year.