1. Introduction.
2. Green Line A.
a. General, prior reports.
b. Astute Comment.
c. Response.
3. Fraud in Cambridge City Hall propaganda “show.”
a. Introductory.
b. Heartless human abuse..
(1) Introductory.
(2) Cambridge Influenced Comment 1.
(3) Response.
(4) Cambridge Influenced Comment 2.
(5) Response.
c. Heartless animal abuse.
(1) Karen Parker.
(2) Karen Parker.
(3) Other person.
(4) Your editor.
1. Introduction.
I normally do not print comments received.
In the last day or so, I have received a number of comments which are of value to these reports. So, I am passing them on.
These comments go into the Green Line A alternatives on the Olympics proposal, and into my report on the fraud being implemented in Cambridge City Hall propaganda “show.”
The edits are as follows. In the heartless human abuse section I deleted a personal comment by me. I had to reorganize the heartless animal abuse section to clean up mindless “corrections” by my smart phone.
2. Green Line A.
a. General, prior reports.
I got an excellent response to my series of reports providing more detail on a Green Line A to support the Olympics and to provide good transportation for the Allston Brighton neighborhood of Boston. I am copying the exchange verbatim below.
I will, probably in my next report, provide a technical analysis based on three maps, the one from MassDOT’s Mass. Pike analysis, a printout from Google Maps provided me by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and my cropping of Cambridge’s Harvard Square map.
One caveat. In the below, and in the past, I have been mentioning that the Harvard Medical School relocation site is bigger than the Back Bay. When the BRA representative was getting me the map I will be using, I had a chance to really compare sizes. I was wrong. The Harvard Medical School and related site is big, but not that big.
The prior reports:
● General analysis: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-new-green-line-ideal-for.html.
● BU Bridge end of Green Line A: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-green-line-boston.html
● Charles River: Green Line A Rapid Transit for Olympics — Harvard Square: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-river-green-line-rapid-transit.html
● Charles River - Harvard Square: Corrections to Green Line A Harvard Station Proposal: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-river-harvard-square-to-green.html
I am also enclosing a comment on my report on the fraudulent show going from the City Hall Annex to City Hall.
b. Astute Comment.
Hi Bob. Thank you for your work in anticipation of this. Your route for the potential A-line shows it going along N. Harvard St/Ave.
The Green-line would probably have its own right of way, probably on Harvard-controlled property, wouldn't it? The T has been moving away from street-based trains (E-line and the original A-line).
c. Response.
This is still a preliminary report.
I was thinking of going behind the Harvard Stadium complex until I looked at the maps more closely and I saw the situation on the ground.
The distance needed to go behind the Stadium is massive. That is the route I would have loved to prevent, at least, going under this portion of North Harvard Street.
The North Harvard Street route really gives two stations for Harvard Medical School and, perhaps, the Olympic village. The currently mentioned Olympic Village location got blasted by the Globe, but Harvard Med is larger than the Back Bay. There is plenty of room there to create an excellent Olympics main area. Private exit from I90, a new Green Line spur. It could work very well.
And it could well fit Harvard and the Mass. Pike plans. Housing could be used for market rate until Harvard needs it for students and grads.
Additionally, Green Line A gives two stations for the North Allston neighborhood.
There are detailed plans in the prior report, which can be accessed on the blog, charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com.
The photos which I will present, the second or third report after this will show that, it looks like, the JFK Park has been designed to put Rapid Transit through the park aimed at North Harvard Street and Soldiers Field Road.
No trees need be destroyed on the Cambridge side going through that park, none.
In talking about going away from streets, you may be thinking of going through the former WGBH area. That is certainly an option. I have chosen North Harvard Street because I consider the second Medical School stop and the neighborhood benefit of crucial importance.
Perhaps the WGBH route could be sold. It would be less expensive. Beyond the Boston University portion, however, it would benefit nobody but Harvard and would not provide as good support for the Medical School.
Building on my detailed analysis of going behind Harvard Stadium, I would think that building under North Harvard Street is necessary in the Harvard Stadium / B School area. I will not mention going behind Harvard Stadium in the report. It is too long as it is.
Go to it, if you would like. I would love to see a discussion based solely on different possible Green Line A routes.
My analysis is all prepared, at least in my mind, and I have a lot of photographs. It is a matter of putting together a lot of stuff.
Right now, the report I am putting out concerns the Destroyed Nesting Area, based on winter photos. Working from the state's plans, it looks like the plans are destroying every tree between the Grand Junction and the BU boathouse.
I will finish on the Green Line analysis as rapidly as is feasible, and I would love your input.
Thanks.
3. Fraud in Cambridge City Hall propaganda “show.”
a. Introductory.
For the report on which these responses are based, please see: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-river-environmental-fraud.html
b. Heartless human abuse..
(1) Introductory.
I know the person who is making the comment. That person is in good faith.
This sort of comment is NORMAL in people with very bad faith. The bad guys ALWAYS have a slew of nonsensical positions. This is their version of a search for the TRUTH. In their world, nonsense which somebody swallows is THE TRUTH. Trouble is that in Cambridge, MA, USA parroting flat out nonsense is the pols’ substitute for reality.
(2) Cambridge Influenced Comment 1.
I regret your personal distaste for the members of the Cambridge City Council, however corrupt, cowardly, or vicious the behavior of many of them.
This in no way justifies the use of hyperbole concerning the Monteiro case. "Robert Healy was condemned by jury, judge and appeals court panel for destroying the life of Malvina Monteiro, a black, Cape Verdean department head."
Wherever did you get the idea that the heroic Ms. Monteiro's life was destroyed?
And just whom do you believe this rumor will dissuade from doing their work or fighting back.
(3) Response.
Golly gee, you mean the triple damages were a figment of the jury's imagination, or "reprehensible" a figment of the judge's imagination, or "ample evidence of . . . outrageous misbehavior" a figment of the imagination of the appeals court panel which showed its contempt by refusing to dignify the appeal with a formal opinion.
I live in reality. The world lives in reality and when the world independently evaluates the outrage in Cambridge, the world keeps condemning it.
Ten bad city councilors get reelected through massive contempt for reality.
Oh, is it my imagination that those ten vile City Councilors destroyed the Cambridge Common immediately before this outrageous propaganda in city hall?
(4) Cambridge Influenced Comment 2.
None of this justifies your statement that Malvina Monteiro's life was destroyed. On the contrary, her principled stand enabled the court case to go forward.
She not only showed courage, she encouraged others.
You are addressing nothing that I wrote Maybe you cannot.
(5) Response.
I live in reality.
It is unfortunate that folks who believe the situation told to them in Cambridge have problems with reality.
She was a department head. She was fired for cause with a bad reference, to put it mildly.
She could only find work as a translator.
I live in reality.
Her life was destroyed and the $1.1 million paid for that. Then you go into the triple plus damages to express outright contempt, $3.5 million.
Then you look at THAT NAME on the police station.
I live in reality.
Ten vile city councilors keep in office because so many Cantabridgians in the middle of a vile machine do not want to know reality.
c. Heartless animal abuse.
I think Karen is responding to this photo and the heartless animal abuse lied about in the propaganda piece and formalized by the belligerently secret fine print.
(1) Karen Parker.
They have just as much claim as anyone else..
(2) Karen Parker.
After all why are people so dam important
(3) Other person.
Um, it used to be their public space?
(4) Your editor.
Man and nature lived happily in harmony, with a lot of tourists visiting the beautiful beings.
Cambridge's friends flat out lied. No intention to harm the Charles River White Geese said repeatedly to concerned folks.
A "lawn to the river" promised in their planning documents..
A bizarre starvation wall introduced with no explanation.
The non stop fraud of fake groups such as the outrage in City Hall.
This outrage, in very clear current context, is a flat out lie telling people not to look at the ongoing outrage on the Cambridge Common. They are telling folks not to look at the important and accelerating public outrages on the Charles River, and at Alewife and Fresh Pond..
Cambridge has a truly vile city government.
These corrupt tactics are the norm.
We are dealing with fraud on a large scale seeking to keep ten vile city councillors in office instead of being dumped as they would get if a well intentioned electorate were allowed to get the councillors they are being told they are getting.
