a. The circumstances.
b. Governor’s Contact Information.
c. Specific Information.
d. More Details.
2. Feedback.
a. Shelley Patterson..
(1) Talk with Governor’s Office, today.
(2) Editor.
(3) Shelley.
b. Excellent question -. How the Off ramp from I90 / Mass. Pike to Cambridge works.
3. Summation.
4. Thank you.
1. Introduction.
This section is intended to provide a short version of the problem. It repeats a lot of yesterday’s post. Both attempt to be a succinct condensation of many posts in the past.
The main reason for this post is to pass on the comments in section 2 which constitute new material.
a. The circumstances.
Last Friday, Governor Patrick of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts received the Environment Bond Bill from the legislature. This bill would destroy hundreds of excellent trees on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, USA along with the distressingly usual harm to resident animals
The above photos are to a key grove which consists of trees small than perhaps half the threatened trees. The bigger trees are too large for viable photographs. These are in and out of season photos to give you a feel for the corruption of the plans. The Charles River is on the left in the first photo, looking west, and on the right in the second photo, looking east.
This grove is perhaps half a mile east of the ghetto which has been forced on the Charles River White Geese. It is located at that point where Memorial Drive is a divided highway to the east and an undivided highway to the west. The destruction numbers are 75 to 80%.
The third photo is of a family of Charles River White Geese, the 33 year resident gaggle which is the direct subject of accelerating and heartless abuse from entities which lie of their own environmental sainthood.
b. Governor’s Contact Information.
The governor has a very short period of time to decide whether or not to veto and he has a line item veto.
Please contact him.
He may be contacted on the net by his email form at http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact. His office may be contacted by telephone at 888-870-7770. This is a free call from Massachusetts.
This is the Environment Bond Bill. The terrible stuff is given the euphemism “Historical Parkways”. The latest bill number I have is the House’s predecessor, H4009. The House of Representatives called for destruction money of $32 million in H4009, §2C, 2890-7020.
c. Specific Information.
The current destruction is in an area where the state bureaucrats have a goal of killing off or driving away as many animal residents as they can get away with. This will be the latest in a series of heartless abuse of these beautiful animals. The public position has been “no intent to harm.”
Prior attacks on the Charles River White Geese are readily correctable. The destruction was cofunded by the state and city, and the project was managed by the person who is currently serving as City Manager. Lies of omission and commission have been normal, along with other corrupt tactics.
When the bureaucrats tried to get Obama moneys to destroy these same Memorial Drive trees in 2009, they lied to the Boston Globe that these hundreds of trees were diseased.
I have published the destruction plans at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.
Please scroll down to get to the plans. The files are horribly large and I hesitate to keep loading the same massive amount of data. The bill number mentioned is the prior number assigned to this destruction.
The most recent identification I have is the relevant portion of the bill at the House of Representatives Level is House Bill H4009, §2C, 2890-7020, in the amount of $32 million.
Here is a photo of the railroad bridge under the BU Bridge which is key. The local transit authority did a silly study on this bridge to determine if it could hold an off ramp to Cambridge of I90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike). If you look straight ahead, you can see a green overhead highway sign. The study proved an off ramp was possible.
d. More Details.
I have done a lot of reports on the ongoing outrages.
The simplest way to find things is to go to facebook - Charles River White Geese and go down the list.
The facebook page consists of shorter versions of these blog reports with links to the blog I question.
2. Feedback.
a. Shelley Patterson..
(1) Talk with Governor’s Office, today.
Shelley reports.
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I just telephoned the Governor's office and left a detailed message. The fellow answering was thorough and helpful, and seemed to truly be taking note of the call. Thank you for the heads-up, and for the contact info....and for your impressive dedication and hard work. I hope that the Governor will make a wise decision.
Cheers,
SP
(2) Editor.
Thank you very much, Shelley.
Your impression is much better than what we have gotten in the past from calls.
That is encouraging.
I have also noted a significant increase in hits on the blog.
(3) Shelley.
Glad you're getting attention, Bob. Giving folks specific bill numbers, phone numbers and email addresses really helps -- then it's much easier for them to take action. Providing outlines of what needs to be said helps, too. Thanks again.
Shelley
b. Excellent question -. How the Off ramp from I90 / Mass. Pike to Cambridge works.
While leafleting at the Destroyed Nesting Area, a gentleman questioned me closely on the possible off ramp from I90 to Memorial Drive. This seems to be the real reason for destroying all these trees.
His point was excellent. He could not see how they could get a ramp in under the BU Bridge with the railroad bridge there. I pointed out that the MBTA proposal was to widen the railroad bridge to hold both.
I have so many photos, almost all of which have been posted already, but even cross references would be confusing. So here are three items which I hope will be helpful.
Here is the photo of the Boston end of the Railroad bridge under the BU Bridge. Straight ahead you can see a green sign which is above I90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike). There is a lot of open space on the Cambridge Side of the Massachusetts Turnpike, and I have published a lot of photos of it. There is very limited space on the Boston side, but enough to build an off ramp and run it over the Mass. Pike.
The plan was to widen the railroad bridge to its east (the left side on the photo) to handle both the railroad and the exit ramp.
Here is a publicly located Boston University map of the central part of its campus. The upper left corner shows the area in question.
Crossing the map is Commonwealth Avenue. Almost perpendicular to it and moving to the top middle is the BU Bridge. Running in a diagonal from the top left to the lower right is the Massachusetts Turnpike. The thin line close to the top left running from the Massachusetts Turnpike to and under the BU Bridge is the Railroad Bridge.
This is the first time I have published this particular map.
Here is a map I have published many times. It is a satellite photo from, I believe, 2006. The BU Bridge is in the very middle. The Railroad Bridge is under it.
The tree destruction plans are posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html, (scroll down, please) .
They start immediately at the BU Bridge below Memorial Drive. This is the heartlessly destroyed home of the Charles River White Geese. The plans continue to the right. At the very right, top of this map, you will see a bump into the Charles River. This is the location of the excellent grove for which I have provided two photos at the top.
The tree destruction continues and continues and continues to the right. The area of tree destruction off this photo is much wider than the area shown on this photo.
3. Summation.
I have gone on and on and on.
This proposal is an outrage.
The governor has a very short period of time to decide whether or not to veto and he has a line item veto.
Please contact him.
He may be contacted on the net by his email form at http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact. His office may be contacted by telephone at 888-870-7770. This is a free call from Massachusetts.
This is the Environment Bond Bill. The terrible stuff is given the euphemism “Historical Parkways”. The latest bill number I have is the House’s predecessor, H4009. The House of Representatives called for destruction money of $32 million in H4009, §2C, 2890-7020.
4. Thank you.
Thank you for whatever you can do.
