Massachusetts Governor Patrick, today, announced the first stage in the relocation of Harvard Medical School to the Harvard owned Mass. Pike (I90) exit / railroad yard properties in the Allston area bounded by the Charles River, Cambridge Street, Boston University and remnants of a neighborhood.
His announcement is posted at http://www.mass.gov/governor/pressoffice/pressreleases/2013/1022-governor-patrick-announces-transportation-investments.html.
Here is a photo of the western extreme of the area. The Massachusetts Turnpike is at the right bottom.
I have posted two other photos, showing the Harvard projects further west. All three are from the Harvard Gazette of October 18, along with analysis at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/some-harvard-maps-of-harvard.html.
The key part is:
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The I-90 Turnpike straightening project will replace a nearly half mile long structurally-deficient viaduct including 29 bridge structures built in the mid-1960’s. The viaduct project will straighten existing turns on both sides of the existing Allston-Brighton toll area, reducing traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions while opening up to 60 acres for future development in the Beacon Park Yards area
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Governor Patrick neglects to mention there is exactly one owner in the Beacon Park Yards area, Harvard University.
Governor Patrick also neglect to mention that this railroad yard and the Mass. Pike exits were purchased by Harvard University within months of the publication of a study finding it possible to put a Mass. Pike exit on the Grand Junction railroad bridge next to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.
Governor Patrick is seeking $26 million in bond authority to destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge / Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge, House Bill H3332. This would ease the moving of the Mass. Pike exit to the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge.
The fake neighborhood association’s corrupt vote of April 23, 2013, helped lay the ground work, together with its non stop company union efforts.
The South Station expansion project called for using Beacon Yards for train storage for South Station, to the shock of Harvard. Harvard was not pleased. The governor is squarely on the side of environmental destruction by this announcement.
Emails for all Massachusetts legislators are posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/objecting-to-legislators-governor.html.
