Friday, November 28, 2014

Cambridge, MA, USA, lies on its heartless animal abuse, s. 9, The unthinkable has happened

Cambridge, MA, USA, lies on its heartless animal abuse, s. 9, The unthinkable has happened.


1. Introduction.

This is the latest in a series of reports responding to the lying attack put out in an art exhibit posted by the City of Cambridge in the art gallery in its City Hall Annex.  The fake group claims responsibility.  I did not dignify the main show with my presence.

A brief glance indicates it looks like the latest propaganda lying to the voters that Cambridge and its friends are behaving responsibly on the Charles River, and don’t look at all the destruction they and their friends have accomplished and are working to accomplish.

This series responds to the segment on the Charles River White Geese, a sweetly worded blatant massive passel of lies.

2. The unthinkable has happened.

Here, once again, is the plaque added to the outrageous statements about the Charles River White Geese in the propaganda collection called an art show.



Now the unthinkable.

What do you call an animal defender who switches to the other side?

I am talking about the cofounder of this organization.

She ran around wearing a Mother Goose outfit defending the Charles River White Geese when these outrages started.

She, among other things, destroyed about 90 to 95% plus of our website, and saw no reason to undo the damage.

Now she is one of the group which is running that outrageous propaganda pit with snide comment and its encouragement of support for heartless animal abuse.  These are the guys who have been fighting for destruction by  company union tactics.

They have now going public with the outrages in that show.

What do you call such a person?

I am ashamed and I have been ashamed.

This latest outrage is one instance too many.

3. Prior segments of this analysis.

Segment 1. “Lies of Omission,” concentrated on background lies, hiding the basic stench of this vile municipality sweet talked into a false sainthood.  This is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its.html.

Segment 2. “The bad guys told them to do it.”  Translation into English of one of the many outrages in such a short posting.

Not, of course mentioning the vile nature of the entity that the Department of Conservation and Recreation asked for a negative report.

That report then became the only negative report on file delivered in response to a freedom of information demand.  The only paper delivered in addition to this bizarre complaint from this reprehensible entity was the communication of the DCR asking for the outrageous canard.  Details posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its_11.html

Segment 3. “The DCR did it.”  This was Cambridge denying responsibility for Cambridge’s rotten behavior,  Standard con game, pass the buck.  The trouble with vile Cambridge blaming outrages solely on the Department of Conservation and Recreation has many major problems.  One very big one is reality.  Cambridge is very vile, and there is a big record.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its_12.html

Segment 4. “DCR did not do it either’.  This segment analyzes Cambridge’s claim that the DCR has some sort of right to claim no duty to protect the animals in the care of the DCR.  It includes the graduation of copycats of the DCR / Cambridge outrages to rape and murder in the same location.  And analyzes the bizarre claim.  It defers until later the reality that Cambridge and the DCR really are responsible for the outrages they claim to be neutral on.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless.html

Segment 5. “World Animal Organization on its sick rationalization” presented the above photo, the normal position of decent human beings, in striking contrast to the outrages posted in the propaganda being passed of as an art show.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless_15.html.

Segment 6. Photos: place of rape, murder, environment, and mass tree destruction.  This segment went into the Cambridge City Council hiding their vileness after a copy cat graduated to rape and murder after mass killing of nesting geese, and the Cambridge City Council blessing his vileness with silence, a wink and a nod.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless_17.html

Segment 7. Cambridge / fake group brag of their vileness.  The following plaque has been added to the propaganda package right next to the lies about the heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless_24.html.



Segment 8. s. 8, summary at Magazine Beach..  This is a short form analysis of the outrage at the Magazine Beach playing fields in the face of the increase in the depravity of the fake group / Cambridge. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-on-its-animal-abuse-s.html

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Cambridge, MA, USA, on its animal abuse, s. 8, summary at Magazine Beach

Cambridge, MA, USA, on its animal abuse, s. 8, summary at Magazine Beach.

1. Introduction.
2. Fraud, Fraud, Fraud, and the Legislature’s Contempt for the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
a. Company unions and the legislature’s contempt for the DCR.
b. Magazine Beach.
(1) The starvation wall.
(2) Destruction of responsible grass.
(3) Destruction of playing fields.
(4) The little guys’ parking lot..
(5) The Charles River White Geese.
(6) Construction of part of the highway which is the big excuse for the destruction of those hundreds of trees.
(7) Interim summary.
3. Prior segments of this analysis.

1. Introduction.

This is the latest in a series of reports responding to lies put out in an art exhibit posted by the City of Cambridge in the art gallery in its City Hall Annex.  I did not dignify the main show with my presence.

A brief glance indicates it looks like the latest propaganda lying to the voters that Cambridge and its friends are behaving responsibly on the Charles River, and don’t look at all the destruction they and their friends have accomplished and are working to accomplice.

This series responds to the segment on the Charles River White Geese, a sweetly worded blatant massive passel of lies.

Additionally, however the fake group has gotten aggressive in its support for heartless animal abuse.

This is the plaque added by the fake group to its outrageous lies about the Charles River White Geese.







They are proud they are fighting to destroy our world and of their heartless animal abuse.  And they have the nerve to yell at Circus shows for animal abuse.  Those Circus shows are less vile than they are.

I have done a lot of general reporting in the prior segments, as summarized in the last section.

2. Fraud, Fraud, Fraud, and the Legislature’s Contempt for the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

a. Company unions and the legislature’s contempt for the DCR.

A significant portion of the Legislature has contempt for the DCR.  Because of their contempt for the DCR, they have stripped the DCR of significant responsibilities, and given those responsibilities to the Department of Transportation.

Cambridge and the DCR are fellow travelers.  They are both very destructive and wasteful in their expenses.

MassDOT, by contrast has been a responsible entity in its relations to Cambridge, much to the distress of Cambridge and its fake groups.

Cambridge adds to the vileness of its policies a well established and powerful system of company unions.  Company unions are fake protective groups which lie of concerns in a particular field, occupy the field and then prevent responsible people from “causing trouble.”

One excellent example is the acres of destruction created at Alewife by one fake group.

Another example is the hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge and next to the Charles River.  Those trees and related animal habitat are slated for destruction as a result of $20 million in Ch. 286 of the Acts of 2014 of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, “Historic Parkways”

Another example is the fight for massive destruction along the Grand Junction railroad being sought by the Cambridge City Council.  MassDOT has stood up to this outrage, but Cambridge is still going forward with the outrage.  An excellent example is a puff piece distributed by Councilor Mazen in which he praised this outrage without mentioning the heartless animal abuse and environmental destruction.

These area are the major targets of the fake group working with Cambridge and the DCR.  They told people it is politically incorrect to defend the Charles River if you love the Charles River.  So they have achieved moneys for massive tree destruction and the city council is still pushing on their outrage on the Grand Junction.  There are many more.

Every destructive goal of the DCR and Cambridge is being fought for by this fake group by telling people it is politically incorrect to defent the Charles River if you love the Charles River.  But Company Unions, in addition to killing initiatives, work to actively destroy when they get a chance.

Now, they are moving from the prevention to the next step what company unions feel aggressive.

b. Magazine Beach.

The local fake group has shown its corruption in the one meeting it had on extending the outrage at the Magazine Beach playing fields to the hill to its west.

It looked like they could lose.  So they postponed the meeting and simply stole a strikingly irresponsible “vote.”  They have deferred Charles River discussion since then to the ends of meetings to prevent reality from being discussed.  They one time they conducted such a discussion in the middle of the meeting, they simply shouted down responsible discussion.

There are three outrages put in place by Cambridge and the DCR through flat out lying by commission or omission.

(1) The starvation wall.

Before


After





The DCR has contempt for ground vegetation.  So it destroys ground vegetation abutting the Charles River twice a year, except at the Magazine Beach playing fields.

That vegetation has value.  It starves the Charles River White Geese by walling off access to their food of most of the past 34 years.

The explanation?

(a) They promised a “lawn to the river” in their sanctified Charles River Master Plan.  After building this outrage, they rewrote the Charles River Master Plan.

(b) They promised for years to “do not harm” to the Charles River White Geese in response to their great value and popularity.  The explanation?  The fake group tells people it is anti-Charles River to look at the heartless animal abuse.

‘( c ) The DCR spent years bullying people with the argument they wanted nothing on the Charles River except water related uses.  The playing fields might as well be miles from the Charles River with the starvation wall there.

(d) Oh, yeah, don’t look at anything other than that old, unused building.

(2) Destruction of responsible grass.

The DCR destroyed excellent grass which survived the better part of a Century and replaced it with sickly stuff that requires poisons to survive.

Explanation: Now they, with the help of the fake group want to expand the poison requiring grass to the top of the hill to the west of the playing fields and to the wetlands behind the swimming pool to the west.

Besides, the fake group calls it anti-Charles River to be concerned with anything other than a building that has not been used for 80 years, although they, now, are expanding their field of outrage.

(3) Destruction of playing fields.

One of the big lies claimed as the reason for the DCR / Cambridge destruction was improvement of playing fields.  The playing fields have been decreased in size to drain off the poisons which should not be there in the first place.

(4) The little guys’ parking lot..

The DCR, with the assistance of the fake group, wants to destroy the little guys’ parking lot used by the historical building and adjacent picnic area.  It is at the foot of Magazine Street.



Explanation:

They are improving the picnic area, no mention of destroying its parking.

The are replacing a water play area next to the parking lot, but find the existing area unacceptable.  Golly gee, look at that parking lot.

(5) The Charles River White Geese.

They put flat out lies in their show about the Charles River White Geese and added the following plaque.  The DCR has ramped up their abuse of these beautiful, popular beings with every excuse available.

Besides, it is anti-Charles River to look at anything except that old building, unless the fake group tells you to look at other things.

Political correctness is the game, especially when you are fighting for destruction which is reprehensible and in direct violations of normal standards of decency.

(6) Construction of part of the highway which is the big excuse for the destruction of those hundreds of trees.

It is there in the plans for expansion of the playing fields outrage, and was included in the playing fields outrage.

Explanation: Same as their explanation of the destruction of those hundreds of trees: How dare you look at threats to the Charles River.  You have no business looking at anything but that unused building unless the company union tells you to do so.

Some of the trees they are fighting to destroy:




(7) Interim summary.

The vileness to which that propaganda show has sunk has rushed my schedule.  I will follow up with a better job on this presentation.

3. Prior segments of this analysis.

Segment 1. “Lies of Omission,” concentrated on background lies, hiding the basic stench of this vile municipality sweet talked into a false sainthood.  This is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its.html.

Segment 2. “The bad guys told them to do it.”  Translation into English of one of the many outrages in such a short posting.

Not, of course mentioning the vile nature of the entity that the Department of Conservation and Recreation asked for a negative report.

That report then became the only negative report on file delivered in response to a freedom of information demand.  The only paper delivered in addition to this bizarre complaint from this reprehensible entity was the communication of the DCR asking for the outrageous canard.  Details posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its_11.html

Segment 3. “The DCR did it.”  This was Cambridge denying responsibility for Cambridge’s rotten behavior,  Standard con game, pass the buck.  The trouble with vile Cambridge blaming outrages solely on the Department of Conservation and Recreation has many major problems.  One very big one is reality.  Cambridge is very vile, and there is a big record.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its_12.html

Segment 4. “DCR did not do it either’.  This segment analyzes Cambridge’s claim that the DCR has some sort of right to claim no duty to protect the animals in the care of the DCR.  It includes the graduation of copycats of the DCR / Cambridge outrages to rape and murder in the same location.  And analyzes the bizarre claim.  It defers until later the reality that Cambridge and the DCR really are responsible for the outrages they claim to be neutral on.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless.html

Segment 5. “World Animal Organization on its sick rationalization” presented the above photo, the normal position of decent human beings, in striking contrast to the outrages posted in the propaganda being passed of as an art show.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless_15.html.

Segment 6. Photos: place of rape, murder, environment, and mass tree destruction.  This segment went into the Cambridge City Council hiding their vileness after a copy cat graduated to rape and murder after mass killing of nesting geese, and the Cambridge City Council blessing his vileness with silence, a wink and a nod.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless_17.html

Segment 7. Cambridge / fake group brag of their vileness.  The following plaque has been added to the propaganda package right next to the lies about the heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless_24.html.




Monday, November 24, 2014

Cambridge, MA, USA, lies on its heartless animal abuse, s. 7, Cambridge / fake group brag of their vileness.

Cambridge, MA, USA, lies on its heartless animal abuse, s. 7, Cambridge / fake group brag of their vileness.

1. Introduction.

This is the latest in a series of reports responding to lies put out in an art exhibit posted by the City of Cambridge in the art gallery in its City Hall Annex.  I did not dignify the main show with my presence.

A brief glance indicates it looks like the latest propaganda lying to the voters that Cambridge and its friends are behaving responsibly on the Charles River, and don’t look at all the destruction they and their friends have accomplished and are working to accomplice.

This series responds to the segment on the Charles River White Geese, a sweetly worded blatant massive passel of lies.

Today, I did dignify this propaganda with my presence and I observed the following added plaque next to the lies about their heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese.

It speaks for itself, and remember the formal, but highly secret goal of the reprehensible Department of Conservation and Recreation, in its sanctified Charles River Master Plan is to kill off or drive away all resident animals on the Charles River Basin.

Their goal until this latest outrage has been hidden through a blizzard of lies.

And, really, I have not yet gotten to the core issues.

2. Bragging about vileness.



3. Prior segments of this analysis.

Segment 1. “Lies of Omission,” concentrated on background lies, hiding the basic stench of this vile municipality sweet talked into a false sainthood.  This is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its.html.

Segment 2. “The bad guys told them to do it.”  Translation into English of one of the many outrages in such a short posting.

Not, of course mentioning the vile nature of the entity that the Department of Conservation and Recreation asked for a negative report.

That report then became the only negative report on file delivered in response to a freedom of information demand.  The only paper delivered in addition to this bizarre complaint from this reprehensible entity was the communication of the DCR asking for the outrageous canard.  Details posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its_11.html

Segment 3. “The DCR did it.”  This was Cambridge denying responsibility for Cambridge’s rotten behavior,  Standard con game, pass the buck.  The trouble with vile Cambridge blaming outrages solely on the Department of Conservation and Recreation has many major problems.  One very big one is reality.  Cambridge is very vile, and there is a big record.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its_12.html

Segment 4. “DCR did not do it either’.  This segment analyzes Cambridge’s claim that the DCR has some sort of right to claim no duty to protect the animals in the care of the DCR.  It includes the graduation of copycats of the DCR / Cambridge outrages to rape and murder in the same location.  And analyzes the bizarre claim.  It defers until later the reality that Cambridge and the DCR really are responsible for the outrages they claim to be neutral on.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless.html

Segment 5. “World Animal Organization on its sick rationalization” presented the above photo, the normal position of decent human beings, in striking contrast to the outrages posted in the propaganda being passed of as an art show.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless_15.html.

Segment 6. photos: place of rape, murder, environment, and mass tree destruction.  This segment went into the Cambridge City Council hiding their vileness after a copy cat graduated to rape and murder after mass killing of nesting geese, and the Cambridge City Council blessing his vileness with silence, a wink and a nod.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless_17.html

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Cambridge Rent Control Property Manager on Rent Control; The Current Position of “Activists”

Cambridge Rent Control Property Manager on Rent Control; The Current Position of “Activists”

1. Excellent Column.
2. Company unions domination of the post rent control tenant scene.

1. Excellent Column.

This week’s Cambridge Chronicle features a striking op end on Rent Control in Cambridge by a manager of a ten unit building under Rent Control.  He says that by playing the system by its rules, he and others like him were allowed maximum rents for his units which nearly tripled the owner’s income.  He refers to the operation of rent control as the model of fairness.

The article is:  Phillip Barber:  Rent Control was a fair solution to Cambridge’s unique problem.  It is posted at http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20141119/NEWS/141116096/2011/OPINION.

His key comment reads: “

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Rent control was never about subsidizing the rents of individual tenants. Its intent was to protect the rental housing stock in Cambridge from the destabilizing effects of real estate speculation . . .

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This is a very astute short analysis of the situation.  It functions as a shortened presentation of the Supreme Judicial Court analysis in the 70s by which the SJC found Rent Control legal.

The SJC very clearly dictated that the minute rent control became a subsidy, Rent Control was illegal as a taking of the landlords’ property.

For this reason, the landlords’ line was that Rent Control was a subsidy for tenants.

2. Company unions domination of the post rent control tenant scene.

The minute rent control died, the people controlling the tenant movement from the shadows adopted the landlords’ position on rent control.

They, and their front organizations, immediately declared that rent control is a subsidy.  They inserted a demand that Rent Control be a subsidy into two reinstatement referenda which were rendered illegal by the presence of such a demand in the petitions.

Just another problem with “protective organizations” in the City of Cambridge, MA, USA in recent decades.

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Charles River: Mass. Pike project runs commuter rail up Grand Junction as it sits now.

Charles River: Mass. Pike project runs commuter rail up Grand Junction as it sits now.

I. Introduction.
II. Transmittal.
III. Letter of comment.
1. Introduction.
2. The Viaduct.
a. Southern Boundary.
b. Northern Boundary.
3. The main part of the proposal.
a. General.
b. Commuter rail layover yard.
c. West Station.
d. Green Line A Spur.
4. Summary.


I. Introduction.

It is amazing how these various projects interrelate.

I attended two environmental review meetings in the last week, South Station expansion and Mass. Pike rebuilding.

The South Station expansion sounds like an expansion, but it sunk in to me that the expansion is viewed as the furthest that South Station can go.  The planners figure that no further expansion of traffic to South Station is possible after this one

That, however, has a caveat.  If you cannot further expand to the south, what are the alternatives?

The alternative that impacts the Charles River is the forcing of new trains over the Charles River and the Grand Junction with all the environmental nightmares involved, as a result of the Mass. Pike reorganization subject to the limits in the South Station expansion..

And all new service would wind up going to North Station.

I have filed an ENF comment on the Mass. Pike work and reproduce it below, adding the Internet standard index.

I commend MassDOT for their handling of the rebuilding of the raised portion (viaduct) of the Mass. Pike.

The comment expands on my ideas for a Green Line A route to service North Allston.  It proposes areas to be set aside for Green Line A, and additional area for expansion of South Station layover in the future rather than the “We can’t do more” mentality.   My comment objects to the new West Station now proposed as part of the Mass. Pike rebuilding for multiple reasons, including the apparent mandatory use of the Grand Junction for all new train service west or south.

The solution to the overload problem at South Station is to expand South Station in such a way as to work to avoid overload in the future.  In this document, going over that alternative is not appropriate.

I will put out my South Station Comment in the next week.

Possible added room can be created in South Station by adding one or two tracks closer to Fort Point Channel, and rearranging a choke point at the railroad entrance to South Station.

Larger scale change is proposed by the North - South Rail folks.  To alleviate the overload problem, their proposal makes sense.

The first step, and it has to be in the South Station expansion project, is to build two levels of track as part of the expansion of South Station, the level currently existing (proposed by the expansion project) and another level below it.

Doing this now would avoid the overload currently imminent.  I would hope the lower level could be expanded in the future under existing tracks.

In order to get into the lower level, a deep bore track would have to be created in the future for access.  It would seem to have to come from from the direction of Back Bay Station.  The North  - South Connector could alleviate a need for further expansion of South Station by routing trains as possible through to North Station.

This is looking increasingly like the only responsible alternative.

The following sections are my transmittal letter and the actual comments.  Because of the greater flexibility possible on the blog, the attachments will be inserted into the document copy below.



II. Transmittal.

holly.s.johnson@state.ma.us

RE: I90 Allston Interchange Project, EEA #15278, ENF Comments

Dear Ms. Johnson:

Enclosed are three documents, in combination constituting my comments on the Environmental Notification Form on the I90 Allston Interchange Project.

Enclosed are my comments and two attachments.  One concerns a possible Green Line A spur which could be impacted by this project.  The other concerns the highways impacted by the only currently available route for commuter rail out of West Station, should the current plans for South Station persist.

I hope I got the Secretary’s name correctly.  I am afraid that I did not copy it down on Thursday evening, and the on line information has a distressing lack of information as to the identity of the Secretary.

III. Letter of comment.

November 22, 2014

Secretary Maeve Vallely Bartlett
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Attn: Holly Johnson, EEA #15278
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 900
Boston, MA  02114
holly.s.johnson@state.ma.us

RE: I90 Allston Interchange Project

Madame Secretary:

1. Introduction.

I am writing individually and as chair of Friends of the White Geese, a Massachusett Not Profit organized in 2001 with the purpose of protecting the environment and animals of the Charles River and related matters.

I myself have two years of on the ground experience in railroad operations.  I have, as part of my railroad position, observed railroad operations first hand from Boston almost to Washington, DC, varying between freight and passenger service.  I have major experience in working on transit planning matters in the Boston / Cambridge area over nearly 40 years.

I proposed the Kenmore Crossing on the Urban Ring subway concept five years before it was officially adopted by the MBTA as a recognized alternative route in 1991.

I have major environmental experience.  In the last 15 years, this has been on Charles River and related matters.  I rather clearly have prevented a mass animal killing in that location.

In the last 40 years I have used my legal training for the benefit of the environment in Cambridge.

I obtained a preliminary injunction on appeal, next to impossible, in a temporarily successful effort to protect one of the best parks in the middle of Cambridge, including more than 20 one hundred year old trees.

I have written more successful zoning changes in Cambridge than any other person not employed by the City of Cambridge.  I have used zoning as a tool to force environmental protection on very major parts of the City of Cambridge.  My zoning changes have required ground floor open space and more housing on about 85% of Massachusetts Avenue in the area between Harvard and Central Squares and portions of adjacent side streets.  My zoning changes allowed fairly large buildings on Mass. Ave. while maintaining environmental protections and protections for neighbors.

The building at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Harvard Street in east Harvard Square, formerly known as the Inn at Harvard was one of my big victories.  Harvard wanted that building to be 72% larger and built to the sidewalk.  The City Council disagreed. About a block away, I saved the 19th Century building at the corner of Banks and Mt. Auburn Streets from destruction by Harvard using fine print in the Cambridge Rent Control Ordinance.  Saving that building probably was key in the retention of the historical character in this, the Kerry Corner neighborhood.

The first two blocks north of Harvard Law School were also downzoned by a petition written by me.

There is a former parking lot between Alewife Station and Route 2 which is being returned to nature as a result of another zoning change I wrote.  This is the only meaningful environmental victory in the Alewife area in spite of a Cambridge related group which claims to be protecting Alewife.

2. The Viaduct.

MassDOT is to be commended in its efforts in the planning of the replacement of this structure.  There are two key factors for which it deserves praise.

a. Southern Boundary.

It is my understanding that the southern boundary of the viaduct will be rebuilt in place.  This is excellent because it retains the possibility of running a Green Line spur off Green Line B just west of the BU Bridge which could connect to Harvard Square with stops at Boston University, Harvard Medical School, North Harvard and Cambridge Street, North Harvard and Franklin Street, and at Harvard’s Business School / Stadium.  A proposed map is attached.


[ed:  As relevant, the proposal has operating commuter rail tracks to the right of the triangle with West Station vertically in the middle to the far right.  Left of these tracks is the commuter rail layover yard with the Mass. Pike to the left of the layover yard.  My proposal calls for added layover tracks to the left of the Mass. Pike and streetcar layover to the left of that.  This explanation deliberately omits other uses in the area.]

I have published photos of the area where the Green Line spur could go at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-green-line-streetcar-light-rail.html. .

Clearly, building a streetcar line in this area would be close to Boston University buildings, but no building need be harmed, plus Boston University would get a stop at the level of their plaza in the new residential housing behind their sports arena, and would get convenient transportation to and from Harvard Square.

On the Harvard Square end, the streetcar line could connect into the existing Harvard Station complex in a subway tunnel which remains from the days when Red Line trains were stored between Harvard Square and Memorial Drive.  Direct connection to the busway would be simple since the only separation is a not overly thick wall.

By contrast, Harvard University’s proposal is for a horribly expensive deep bore Red Line spur with one stop, the Medical School, between Harvard Square and the Longwood / Harvard Medical Area.  It is expensive and bizarre.  The Harvard proposal would require rebuilding of the existing Harvard Station.

b. Northern Boundary.

Environmentally destructive people have argued for connections to the Grand Junction railroad bridge which would be environmentally destructive on the Cambridge side of the Grand Junction bridge.  MassDOT has been wise to reject this proposal.

Of major interest is the timing of Harvard’s purchase of the forthcoming Harvard Medical School area.  Harvard’s purchase  came a few months after the MBTA proved that the Grand Junction railroad bridge could be used for an off ramp from the Mass. Pike to Cambridge.

Major environmental destruction has been achieved and is planned on the Cambridge side making room for this bridge in place of the ongoing stalking horse argued for.  Segmentation and dishonesty by people who do not show their faces.

3. The main part of the proposal.

a. General.

I was generally happy / not greatly questioning this area until I attended the environmental meeting on Tuesday evening, November 18, concerning the South Station expansion.

It became clear during that meeting that the planners are expanding to add South Coast trains ONLY.  They see no room for expansion beyond that.  The plans at South Station are thus for a total end of transit expansion to the south.

That I find shocking.  That directly impacts my thinking with regard to the main part of the Mass. Pike work.

b. Commuter rail layover yard.

The South Station planners’ position on the layover yard proposed as part of the Massachusetts Turnpike Allston facility is that they can live with it for layover of trains from the west.  The mentality here exactly fits their mentality at South Station.  They can survive with the layover yard as proposed.  It is nothing great and it leaves no room for expansion, but they can live with it.

As far as they are concerned the current expansion effort is the end of expansion of South Station service, and thus there would be no value for larger layover service.

The South Station planners are of the understanding that the layover yard has to be located between the relocated Massachusetts Turnpike and the residential neighborhood.

The South Station planners have not even thought of splitting the layover yard with the proposed part between the Mass. Pike and the neighborhood and with additional layover yard space on the far side of the Mass. Pike, to allow expansion in the future.

The South Station planners apparently are aware of the plans for the primary area but do not have an understanding of its relationship to the viaduct.  The tracks from South Station come in to the primary area from under the viaduct.

Creating a switch under the viaduct so that layover trains could be directed to layover tracks on either side of the relocated ground level Mass. Pike would be simple.

Easy and effective, and in sharp contrast to a situation which I hope will be corrected at South Station, allows for future expansion, this would allow further expansion of rail service at South Station.

c. West Station.

This, along with at least one other station, is being sold as some sort of improvement to transit facilities available to the neighborhood.

This, to me, makes no sense to the neighborhood.  The neighbors have not had a meaningful explanation of the very severe limits of commuter rail.  Commuter rail service normally is almost totally rush hour service, Monday to Friday.

The hours availability and accessability limits of West Station are such that folks are very much not likely to use West Station.  They will find preferably bus transportation to rapid transit at Harvard Square, Central Square and Allston Village more convenient and ALWAYS available at least by bus.

Additionally, the planning mentality at South Station makes it unlikely that South Station will be able to receive the new traffic.  Thus the only viable route for West Station traffic would be through Cambridge.  The Cambridge route is environmentally destructive, and destructive to the existing traffic because of its blocking of multiple major roads in Cambridge.  I am enclosing a map of the conflicts.  This is a map of the Grand Junction in Cambridge prepared by MIT.  I have added arrows pointing out the major roads which would be directly impacted.



MassDOT has studied passenger service on the Cambridge route and found passenger service on this route of no value to any location except for Kendall Square.

Since there is no other apparent route which West Station traffic would use, failure to evaluate environmental impacts of trains being serviced by West Station is very clearly segmentation.

d. Green Line A Spur.

Looking at the destructive aspects of the South Station failure to allow for expansion causes me to get more concerned about the failure to allow for streetcar service.

A Green Line A spur, as described in my map, is exactly what is being promised to the neighborhood by West Station.  The major difference is that a Green Line spur will readily work to provide the service which North Allston needs.  My map is based on MassDOT’s early depiction of the proposal area.



The big problem with the Mass. Pike proposal is that it leaves no room for Green Line service in the main part of the work effort in the future.  Failure to allow for real rapid transit in the main part of the area could possibly stick North Allston with a silly West Station and Harvard’s bizarre deep bore Red Line spur with only one stop between Harvard Square and the Harvard / Longwood Medical Area.

Two things are necessary to properly support a Green Line A spur.

(a) An area set aside for layover yard of their own located adjacent to the expansion of the South Station layover yard on the Cambridge Street side of the relocated Mass. Pike.

(b) Preliminary tunnel construction under the work area, plus allowance at the West Station site, with or without West Station.

A station would be appropriate for the Harvard Medical School area.  If West Station is built, combining the Green Line A station and West Station would probably be a good idea.  Tunnels should be built as necessary under the new streets and coming buildings AS PART OF THIS PROJECT to allow construction of the Green Line A.

The West Station location for the Harvard Medical School stop would complement a station at Cambridge Street and North Harvard, so that one location is convenient for the side of the construction toward Commonwealth Avenue and the other location is convenient for North Allston.  Underground streetcar transportation would also allow a station at North Harvard and Franklin, closer to the residential neighborhood.

Future streetcar rapid transit construction is the sensible way to go.

Failure to include these minimal efforts to support a future Green Line A could kill it in favor of the bizarre Harvard proposal.

4. Summary.

The proposal is generally excellent.

The planning for the viaduct is superb.

The planning for the main area should be modified to expand the commuter rail layover yard so that it has tracks on both sides of the relocated Mass. Pike, plus a layover area for Green Line A streetcars.  The main area should  include preliminary  tunneling to allow Green Line A to be built in those tunnels later.  And the North Station concept, with or without North Station should allow for Green Line A, although a great deal of expense could be eliminated by eliminating North Station.

Thank you for your kind consideration.  In particular, I am strongly impressed with the professionalism of both MassDOT teams, here and at South Station.

Sincerely,



Robert J. La Trémouille

1. Green Line A Spur, based on preliminary project mapping.
2. Conflicts of Passenger rail in Cambridge, based on MIT’s map of a proposal for an interim (interim not mentioned) Grand Junction small vehicle highway.

Monday, November 17, 2014

Cambridge, MA, USA, lies on its heartless animal abuse, s. 6, photos: place of rape, murder, environment, and mass tree destruction

Cambridge, MA, USA, lies on its heartless animal abuse, s. 6, photos: place of rape, murder, environment, and mass tree destruction

1. Introduction.
2. Reality, a reprehensible government, and its friends.
3. The on ramp to Memorial Drive from the BU Bridge.
4. Formerly vegetated area.
5. Subsequent destruction.
6. The location of the rape.
7. The location of the murder.
8. The location the Cambridge City Council spent an hour discussing, and the reason they did not want to know where the rape and murder occurred.
9. The location where the key killer came from.
10. Punishment (?) of other guilty.
11. Prior segments of this analysis.



1. Introduction.

This is the latest in a series of reports responding to lies put out in an art exhibit posted by the City of Cambridge in the art gallery in its City Hall Annex.  I did not dignify the main show with my presence.

A brief glance indicates it looks like the latest propaganda lying to the voters that Cambridge and its friends are behaving responsibly on the Charles River, and don’t look at all the destruction they and their friends have accomplished and are working to accomplice.

This series responds to the segment on the Charles River White Geese, a sweetly worded blatant massive passel of lies.

2. Reality, a reprehensible government, and its friends.

Yesterday, November 16, 2014, I went to the Destroyed Nesting Area to which the Charles River has been confined without food.

This area, even after its destruction for the Department of Conservation and Recreation by Boston University remained lush and green.  BU destroyed the native vegetation and created a lawn, but they did not destroy all of the vegetation.  The edges remained heavily vegetated and were used for nesting.

The middle had grass sewn and a silly cinder path created.

As part of the outrage, two openings were illegally created by Boston University.  I say “illegally” because, after denying the destruction for six months, Boston University was condemned for it by the Cambridge Conservation Commission.  Then Boston University proceeded to brag of it.  It was accomplished by an illegal agreement between Boston University and the DCR.

3. The on ramp to Memorial Drive from the BU Bridge.

Here is the photo of the main entrance at the BU Bridge and the on ramp to Memorial Drive.



It has been brought to the attention of the DCR that there is food across the ramp, and they cannot allow the Charles River White Geese to have food.  After all, their sanctified formal admission of vileness, the Charles River Master Plan, calls for killing or driving away all resident animals.

So the DCR has blocked off that entrance.

They cannot allow the Charles River White Geese to have food.

Here is the ramp the Charles River White Geese used to carefully cross to get food.  They are good jaywalkers.  They look both ways before crossing.  Their trouble is that they are geese and they do tend to dawdle.

The drivers like all decent people familiar with them, love them.  They stand patiently waiting for these beautiful beings to carefully cross.



The magnificent tree is another excellent piece of evidence of the DCR and Cambridge’s vileness.  Ch. 286, of the Acts of 2014, “Historic Parkways” calls for $20 million for the DCR, with Cambridge’s “neutrality” that has no business being neutrality, to destroy this excellent tree and hundreds more like it.

And I could go on about the Cambridge participation in this outrage.  This analysis is long enough.

Here is another view of the photo from the last segment, giving the human opinion of “neutrality” in the face of vileness.



4. Formerly vegetated area.

Boston University left much lush ground vegetation.  The DCR used the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” to do environmental destruction for them.

These are the guys, under their original name, who filed the ONLY complaint against the Charles River White Geese produced by the DCR in response to our freedom of information request.  That demand letter got from the DCR this nonsense from the CRC plus a letter from the DCR asking for the letter that the CRC wrote.

The CRC destroyed as much ground vegetation as they could get away with, realizing that the DCR anticipated massive destruction for work on the BU Bridge.

All of the areas in these photos were lush with ground vegetation ad the time of the killing of mother geese on their nests.  The first destruction was by Boston University.  The second destruction finished the job of the first, except for a very limited amount of native vegetation not destroyed by either.

Further outrages occurred that year on a much more organized scale.  In particular a large panel of wood which protected a nest was take away.  That could not have been done by one person.  The mother goose “disappeared” defending her nest and her babies.  Only one baby survived.  The father goose went crazy with grief.

These large scale instances of destruction reemphasize the file position of destruction endorsed by the DCR and the Cambridge City Council.

The large destruction was clearly done by friends of the vile DCR and Cambridge, clearly “the right kind of people”, clearly a blessing for outrage

There were nests all over the place when the nut copycatted the DCR, Cambridge and its friends by beating nesting geese to death.





5. Subsequent destruction.

Since then, a railroad crew did work on the railroad, using the most sensitive part of the Destroyed Nesting Area for a parking lot.

The Executive Director of the Cambridge Conservation Commission observed this outrage and objected to the DCR.

The same fraud / manager who spent more than a decade lying of “no intent” to harm the Charles River White Geese told the crew to obey the orders of the Cambridge Conservation Commission WITHIN THE NARROW JURISDICTION OF THE CAMBRIDGE CONSERVATION COMMISSION.  That narrow jurisdiction is a tiny strip.  The cars moved out of that strip and continued destruction.

In the above photo, the area "protected" by this destructive fraud is the area under the trees straight ahead, plus, perhaps, a few feet this side.

A responsible government would have parked those cars along the on ramp.

This outrageous example of anything but neutrality is the sort of thing praised in that propaganda show as neutrality.

This stone was all dumped in the sensitive area by the railroad crew with the clear support of the DCR.  After they left, “somebody” returned and dumped more.

6. The location of the rape.

The woman was raped by the copycats against the foot of the railroad bridge.  Here are two angles of the rape site.  Remember, the DCR with the blessing / inexcusable indifference of the City of Cambridge has destroyed the dense ground vegetation which was here at the time.




The DCR’s agent for destruction was the folks Cambridge’s propaganda blesses as some sort of neutral party, and the only party on record objecting to the Charles River White Geese.

7. The location of the murder.

Here is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge.

She was raped under the bridge’s supports.  She was murdered on the bridge.


The bridge in the background is the BU Bridge.

8. The location the Cambridge City Council spent an hour discussing, and the reason they did not want to know where the rape and murder occurred.

The City Council claimed to be concerned.

The rape and murder followed discussions by the murderous group and the victim in this burial ground in Harvard Square, next to the church.  The scaffolding is temporary.





The City Council spent an hour expressing shock at her murder, Harvard Square, Harvard Square, Harvard Square.

The ONLY mention of where she was raped and murdered came from the City Council’s most environmentally destructive member, Henrietta Davis.  Naturally she ran as an environmentalist.

I have heard of people swallowing their words.  That was the only time I have seen it in person.  She swallowed her words, looked around guiltily and joined the lie that Harvard Square was the only place relevant.

People had begged the Cambridge City Council to stand up against the beating deaths of mother geese.  People reminded the Cambridge City Council that heartless animal abusers have been known to graduate to humans.

The Cambridge City Council was “neutral” in the manner that the City of Cambridge’s current propaganda defending their impending multiple outrages by distraction, call reponsible.

They were “neutral” with a wink and a nod.

Here, once again, is a message from a responsible person.



9. The location where the key killer came from.

He came from a homeless encampment on the Boston end of the railroad bridge.  These were reputed to be bad people.  The convicted killer had been seen in the Destroyed Nesting Area looking suspicious.

The bad guys' encampment, probably was near the area at the curve in this photo which I have previously published.



There was an encampment of good guys on the Cambridge side.  They defended the Charles River White Geese.

Naturally, the DCR drove out the good guys with the bad.

The key killer got a long sentence..

10.     Punishment (?) of other guilty.

Vile members of government got to continue their lies of sainthood.  And they got to keep the key government official, Robert Healy in office, even after judge, jury, and appeals court panel gave them ample support to fire him for his administrative destruction of a woman's life in retaliation for her filing a civil rights complaint.

The real killer went to jail in response to his copycatting Cambridge and the DCR.  Reprehensible (using the civil rights judge’s term for Healy’s actions) members of government got to lie about their sainthood, and to protect Healy from judicial outrage for his administrative killing.  Healy’s administrative killing of the female department head occurred pretty much in the same time period as this particular outrage on the Charles River.

The voters may have fired two rotters on the Cambridge City Council.

10, Prior segments of this analysis.

Segment 1. “Lies of Omission,” concentrated on background lies, hiding the basic stench of this vile municipality sweet talked into a false sainthood.  This is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its.html.

Segment 2. “The bad guys told them to do it.”  Translation into English of one of the many outrages in such a short posting.

Not, of course mentioning the vile nature of the entity that the Department of Conservation and Recreation asked for a negative report.

That report then became the only negative report on file delivered in response to a freedom of information demand.  The only paper delivered in addition to this bizarre complaint from this reprehensible entity was the communication of the DCR asking for the outrageous canard.  Details posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its_11.html

Segment 3. “The DCR did it.”  This was Cambridge denying responsibility for Cambridge’s rotten behavior,  Standard con game, pass the buck.  The trouble with vile Cambridge blaming outrages solely on the Department of Conservation and Recreation has many major problems.  One very big one is reality.  Cambridge is very vile, and there is a big record.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its_12.html

Segment 4. “DCR did not do it either’.  This segment analyzes Cambridge’s claim that the DCR has some sort of right to claim no duty to protect the animals in the care of the DCR.  It includes the graduation of copycats of the DCR / Cambridge outrages to rape and murder in the same location.  And analyzes the bizarre claim.  It defers until later the reality that Cambridge and the DCR really are responsible for the outrages they claim to be neutral on.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless.html

Segment 5. “World Animal Organization on its sick rationalization” presented the above photo, the normal position of decent human beings, in striking contrast to the outrages posted in the propaganda being passed of as an art show.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cambridge-ma-usa-lies-on-its-heartless_15.html.

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Cambridge, MA, USA, lies on its heartless animal abuse, s. 5, the World Animal Organization on its sick rationalization

Cambridge, MA, USA, lies on its heartless animal abuse, s. 5, the World Animal Organization on its sick rationalization


1. Introduction.
2. Humanity and the bizarre proclamations of Cambridge and its surrogates.
3. One example from decent human beings.
4. Prior segments of this analysis.



1. Introduction.

This is the latest in a series of reports responding to lies put out in an art exhibit posted by the City of Cambridge in the art gallery in its City Hall Annex.  I did not dignify the main show with my presence.  

A brief glance indicates it looks like the latest propaganda lying to the voters that Cambridge and its friends are behaving responsibly on the Charles River, and don’t look at all the destruction they and their friends have accomplished and are working to accomplice.

This series responds to the segment on the Charles River White Geese, a sweetly worded blatant massive passel of lies.

2. Humanity and the bizarre proclamations of Cambridge and its surrogates.

In our last report, we responded to the bizarre claim by the City of Cambridge’s and its surrogates that Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation has some sort of right to ignore heartless animal abuse of the animals residing of the animals on its land.

This sick claim ignores the fact that the heartless animal abuse that Cambridge is claiming the DCR can ignore originates in the DCR and Cambridge.  

But even allowing for the blatant falsity of claims of innocence of the actual heartless animal abuse, the argument itself is sick.

This sort of sick argument is normal in Cambridge when what Cambridge is doing really rotten stuff, and too many politically correct will simply swallow the sick arguments because they are told that Cambridge and its surrogates are saintly and do not make errors.

3. One example from decent human beings.

This photo was posted of facebook by the World Animal Foundation.


But then again, Cambridge and its surrogates disavow themselves from normal human decency.  They are above that sort of stuff.

4. Prior segments of this analysis.

Segment 1. “Lies of Omission,” concentrated on background lies, hiding the basic stench of this vile municipality sweet talked into a false sainthood.  This is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its.html.

Segment 2. “The bad guys told them to do it.”  Translation into English of one of the many outrages in such a short posting.  

Not, of course mentioning the vile nature of the entity that the Department of Conservation and Recreation asked for a negative report.

That report then became the only negative report on file delivered in response to a freedom of information demand.  The only paper delivered in addition to this bizarre complaint from this reprehensible entity was the communication of the DCR asking for the outrageous canard.  Details posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its_11.html

Segment 3. “The DCR did it.”  This was Cambridge denying responsibility for Cambridge’s rotten behavior,  Standard con game, pass the buck.  The trouble with vile Cambridge blaming outrages solely on the Department of Conservation and Recreation has many major problems.  One very big one is reality.  Cambridge is very vile, and there is a big record.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/city-of-cambridge-lies-about-its_12.html

Segment 4. “DCR did not do it either’.  This segment analyzes Cambridge’s claim that the DCR has some sort of right to claim no duty to protect the animals in the care of the DCR.  It includes the graduation of copycats of the DCR / Cambridge outrages to rape and murder in the same location.  And analyzes the bizarre claim.  It defers until later the reality that Cambridge and the DCR really are responsible for the outrages they claim to be neutral on.