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Side by side patches are likely not coincidences
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Road hazards happen.
Especially in Quincy.
Most especially in Quincy.
In any event, Quincy Quarry News heard word of shoddy and thus vehicle launching pavement patches just short of the start of the six hundred addresses of Sea Street, however, the Quarry’s City Editor paid such with little heed.
After all, Sea Street has long featured bad runs of pavement and figured that some Nekkers were thus quick to kvetch.
Blame Quincy’s Boss Hogg
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However, complaints keep coming along with images of the problem.
So bumpy were the shoddy pavement patches that it is clear that the bumps could launch a vesicle into the air if one is traveling at the posted speed limit.
Quincy Quarry News further made a few calls to local auto repair shops and so confirmed that these two pavement patches have been money makers for them.
Accordingly, the Quarry then reached out to its construction expert and so came to know about even more concerns.
Pouring flowable fill
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For starters, given likely poor and thus unstable below grade soil as well as probably including a peat layer, endeavoring to compact the soil after fixing the water main breaks was likely difficult at best.
In turn, problematic subsistence has detrimentally impacted the patches to de facto pothole condition.
Accordingly, the better way to fill the excavation work needed to repair both water main breaks would have been to use flowable fill as once dry flowable fill provides a solid substrate so as to then endeavor to effect smooth pavement patches.
A water main break geyser
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In turn, such would have provided two further as well as considerable benefits.
One, passing vehicles would not be suffering beatings from driving over the depressed pavement.
And the other, the initial depressed pavement patch is likely causing below grade pounding of the water main and so likely at least played a role in the recent second adjacent water main break.
In short, as well as yet again, only in Quincy.
I think that Al Grazioso is a little over his head as the head of Quincy’s Department of Public Works. Also recall his working for then State Treasurer Tim Cahill and having to cop a plea deal as well as pay a fine for strong arming some state lottery peeps. Now we have him destroying every road in the City so he can rebuild them and look like a hero. What does Al really know about road construction? Did he cut that class?
“(A) little over his head …”?
SMH.
The streets themselves are safety hazards. Not to mention irrational traffic signals, constant U-turns and Y-turns everywhere, speeding drivers, double and triple parking, little to no traffic enforcement, drivers AND pedestrians who seem to have little to no idea what they’re doing. A broken water main is almost entertainment in comparison.
Not only can your tires get a full-body workout, but your whole car might just learn to fly if you hit those haphazard asphalt catapults at the speed limit. Who needs roller coasters when Quincy’s pothole-pavement patches offer thrill rides and free business for every local mechanic? Bonus points to City Hall for creating a DIY launch system -— Newsflash: using flowable fill, not surprise trampoline patches, is how to effectively fix roads. But hey, why do actual engineering when you can keep the economy rolling -… right into your shop’s bay?
Bravo, Quincy. Bravo.