1. Your editor, Bob La Trémouille, forwarded the following from Boston.com/
2. Your Editor's Comment.
3. Marilyn Wellons.
a. First Comment.
b. PS.
4. Other excellent Boston.com report, on the destruction and starvation at Magazine Beach, October 2004.
1. Your editor, Bob La Trémouille, forwarded the following from Boston.com/
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The following appeared on Boston.com:
Headline: Harvard unveils its vision of campus across Charles Date: January 12, 2007
"Harvard University unveiled a sweeping plan yesterday to transform a 250-acre swath of Boston into an expanse of academic facilities, student housing, and a new public square with a plaza, retail stores, theaters, and an art museum." ____________________________________________________________
To see this recommendation, click on the link below or cut and paste it into a Web browser: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/12/ harvard_unveils_its_vision_of_campus_across_charles?p1=email_to_a_friend
[Ed: I inserted a space in the URL for fear of mangling blog. Please delete the space inserted after the date to view the report. ("2007/01/12/" precedes the inserted space.)]
2. Your Editor's Comment.
Harvard provides an excellent map through to Cambridge Street, Allston (River Street, Cambridge). Harvard shows nothing and does not even comment on its ownership of the Mass. Pike off ramps East of Cambridge Street, or of the manipulations to move those off ramps to the Grand Junction Rail Bridge under the BU Bridge and smack dab through the most delicate habitat on the north side of the Charles.
Please see the Charles River White Geese website for an excellent photo by Della Huff in the Habitat tab putting it all in perspective.
3. Marilyn Wellons.
a. First Comment.
Harvard and the DCR will argue that the "increase" in Charles River parkland from covering Soldiers Field Road will compensate for the loss of parkland at the BU-Grand Junction bridges when they remove the Mass Pike exit from its current, Harvard-owned location and move it there.
b. PS.
Land isn't fungible, except of course that transferable development rights make it so.
Nevertheless, urban wilds on parkland land absolutely lost at the BU-Grand Junction rail bridges is gone.
4. Other excellent Boston.com report, on the destruction and starvation at Magazine Beach, October 2004.
boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/10/17/...?mode=PF provides their initial report on the destruction of Magazine Beach. Regrettably, the original, excellent photo is not included. This was of the gaggle looking for food with a massive earth remover in the background.
The report on Boston.com does include the quote of Corsi which originally appeared to the right of the gaggle / earth remover photo Corsi was denying any intent to harm the Charles River White Geese. Corsi has since elaborated that in his world starving the Charles River White Geese is not harming them.
Regrettably, the rest of us live in the real world.
