Kendall / Longfellow ”Hearing”; Handicapping the Cambridge, MA, USA City Council

Kendall / Longfellow ”Hearing”; Handicapping the Cambridge, MA, USA City Council

1. Kendall / Longfellow “Hearing”.
2. Handicapping the Cambridge, MA, USA City Council.
3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.


1. Kendall / Longfellow “Hearing”.

At 7 to 9 pm, tomorrow, Wednesday, July 10, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will hold a “public hearing” on the Longfellow Bridge renovations in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, USA.

One excellent grove on top of the Red Line has already been destroyed, supposedly for traffic convenience, even though there are many ways to route traffic without destroying that excellent grove.

As of the start of the day today, the manager has already moved one excellent tree from the magnificent grove on the ramp from Memorial Drive to the Longfellow Bridge heading to Boston, and her announcement was that destruction would recommence yesterday, July 9.

Why this destruction? She is putting in an engineer’s toy in place of this irreplaceable grove. She is collecting rain water from the bridge in a fancy natural drainage system. She is above putting her precious drain water in the sewers maintained by Cambridge or by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Bizarre! But she is dealing with the City of Cambridge where bizarre, destructive environmental attacks are normal by Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Cambridge has a massive Machine running around calling the city holier than thou to prove that these destroyers are “holier than thou.”

The exact address is 45 Carleton Street, #111, Cambridge, MA. This is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology building. Carleton Street dead ends at the plaza for the main portion of the Red Line Kendall stop. If you come by the Red Line, go up to the ground off the Red Line, stand with your back to the hotel, and it is perhaps the third or fourth building straight ahead and to the left. There are also many buses to Kendall Square and, really, it is not that difficult to get off the number 1 bus at the Main Entrance to MIT and walk to the far end of the infinite corridor. Then ask. You will wind up very close although not as close as is the public transportation to Kendall.

It would be nice if you would attend, but the bad faith is so extreme. This woman explains her environmental destruction in part on an allegation that it is the public’s job to stop her destructiveness and that prior hearings IN BOSTON with fine print somewhere on this destruction relieves her of responsibility for her own actions. While she does loudly claim that this destruction is necessary.

The environmental destruction is in Cambridge. That environmental destruction should be very visibly announced rather than buried in papers off in the middle of nowhere. Notwithstanding this, the destroyer still has no business passing the buck to members of the public and claiming no responsibility for her extremely irresponsible destruction.

Needless to say, I am highly not impressed with the calling of this first public meeting in Cambridge. I have tried to attend the Boston meetings on this project, and I anticipate attending this one as well.

Contact information is at the bottom of this report should you wish to object to this or other outrages.

2. Handicapping the Cambridge, MA, USA City Council.

A second city councilor is leaving, according to a post on the Cambridgeport listserve. Henrietta Davis will join another city councilor in departing. The other city councilor has been elected State Representative.

Every incumbent city councilor is worthy of condemnation if you are pro environment. Davis has run as an environmentalist (as has Craig Kelley). That means she, falsely, has been getting votes from people who want their environment protected.

To just start things off, Davis’s record has been belligerently destructive of the Charles River.

If environmental destroyers were not lying to people about which side they are on, Cambridge could conceivably have responsible members on the city council.

Environmental destroyers are aided in their fraud on the voters by the presence in the local Sierra Club of individuals who have been prominent and destructive as Cambridge Pols. With those people in place, it is not at surprising to see the Boston Sierra Club joining in the lie that Cambridge has sitting City Councilors who are pro environment.

The Cambridge Machine aggressively controls politics in Cambridge, MA, USA. Key in their control, from an environmental point of view, is their secret definition of “environmentalism.”

Their secret definition of “environmentalism” is that they exclude from the world’s definition of “environmentalism” whatever environmental destruction the Cambridge Machine / City Council is fighting for this week.

Alewife, the Charles River, the Cambridge Common, Fresh Pond are being, have been subjected to and/or are planned for major destruction, and these frauds run on claims of being “environmentalists,” using this fraudulent definition and a massive, irresponsible Cambridge Machine.

Good riddance to Davis if she is leaving, but an environmentally responsible replacement is highly unlikely.

3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.

If you feel like doing something meaningful, please do the following as rapidly as possible. Destruction was announced to resume Monday, July 8.

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

State environmental people, DES Hotline: ESF.Hotline@state.ma.us.

MassDOT Accelerated Bridges Program: 857-368-8904 or Stephanie.Boundy@state.ma.us

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

Cambridge, MA, USA city councilors: Council@cambridgema.gov.

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For people listening to Boston Sierra Club endorsements of environmentally destructive members of the Cambridge City Council, you should be aware that

(1) using the world’s definition of “environmentalism,” there are no environmentally responsible members of the Cambridge City Council, and

(2) there are Cambridge Machine activists very visible and apparently very active in the Boston Sierra Club.

If you are talking to a person associated with the Boston Sierra Club, do a credibility check. Ask if they are familiar with the “Urban Ring” rapid transit proposal. This is a subway proposal designed to link the existing subway spokes. I have been working on it since 1985. Cambridge raised the project in a comment to an environmental Impact Statement in the last month or so.

If the Boston Sierra Club “expert” answers “yes,” that he / she is familiar with the Urban Ring rapid transit proposal, ask how many rail options there are. If the answer is “one,” you are getting the flat out lie put out by the City of Cambridge.

Cambridge’s flat out lie is that, of the TWO rail options, the only one that exists is the environmentally destructive streetcar option which the City of Cambridge supports. This option would be highly destructive to the environment near the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The reality is that THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS SUBSIDIZED THE OTHER OPTION, the responsible Orange Line / heavy rail option, the Kenmore crossing. The state legislature has subsidized the expansion of Yawkey Station as part of the massive Fenway Park area project which has gotten recent press.

Cambridge’s nonsensical proposal would move Yawkey Station three blocks. The Cambridge proposal would not work without moving Yawkey Station. The Kenmore Crossing uses the now subsidized and being expanded Yawkey Station as part of a brilliant megastation.

You should immediately respond to such nonsense from a Sierra Club “expert” by having nothing more to do with this person. Whether the person is stupid or venal is irrelevant, the person has no credibility and is not worthy of your time.

It is frequently difficult to pin these irresponsible people down in general. The deviant behavior in my test is extreme. They are pious in their demands that, if you are politically correct and pro environment, you have to rubber stamp them. Please do not waste your time arguing about destruction they can wiggle around.

Turn your back on them and walk away fast.

Longfellow / Kendall, a Day’s Destruction, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA

Longfellow / Kendall, a Day’s Destruction, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is in the process of following up environmental outrage with environmental outrage in Cambridge, MA, between, between the Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River and Kendall Square.
1. Update.
2. Original Report.


1. Update.

Mishka comments on the final photo below:

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This is a photo taken around 7pm today (Mon Jul 8).

A machine next to a tree to be transplanted.

No trees cutting took place today, just some work related to transplanting the trees.

2. Original Report.

Given the extreme environmental irresponsibility of the City of Cambridge and the fake groups which run around lying about the sainthood of the City of Cambridge, this is not a particular surprise, reprehensible, but not a surprise.

Phase 1 of the destruction was the savaging of a beautiful grove of trees about the Red Line tunnel at the Cambridge end of the Longfellow Bridge. This is for supposed traffic management. In a responsible municipality, this outrage would not have occurred. Traffic would be detoured or routed through a responsible path.

Here are before and after pictures.

Now the bureaucrats are creating an engineers’ plaything.

They want to drain rainwater off the Longfellow Bridge. There are sewers on the Cambridge side belonging to Cambridge and belonging to the Department of Conservation and Recreation. These sewers are beneath the bureaucrats. Besides, Cambridge is belligerently destructive of the environment, and has a massive machine which does a lot of lying.

So the bureaucrats are destroying an excellent, irreplaceable grove between Memorial Drive and the Longfellow Bridge heading toward Boston to put in a fancy engineer beautiful drainage system instead of draining into existing sewers.

Besides, Cambridge is belligerently destructive of the environment, and has a massive machine which does a lot of lying. The Cambridge Machine, non stop, swears to the sainthood of the environmentally destructive City of Cambridge, and has been known to indulge in corrupt behavior to assist state bureaucrats in environmental destruction.

Following are a before picture on the target grove, from last week after one tree had been irresponsibly removed, and Mishka’s photo from today.

As near as I can gather, the position of the bureaucrats is that the public has a duty to keep the bureaucrats from destroying the environment, and that the public has failed in its duty. This position is a standard position of the Cambridge city government as well. The Cambridge Machine has a distressing tendency to parrot nonsense no matter how silly, and to practice corrupt behavior as necessary in support of the latest outrage. They also have tendency toward disinformation, as I have reported in the past few days.

Status Update, Excellent Grove being needlessly destroyed at Longfellow / Kendall

Status Update, Excellent Grove being needlessly destroyed at Longfellow / Kendall

Mishka reports at 1:40 pm, July 8, 2013, concerning the doomed, excellent grove on the ramp from Memorial Drive to Longfellow Bridge toward Boston:

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They are still transplanting trees. They are not cutting them yet.

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For our last report and a lot of links and contacts, please see: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-obvious-alternative-to-more-totally.html, going over the total needlessness of this destruction.

But Cambridge, MA, USA has all these fake organizations fighting for destruction of the environment and lying that they are the good guys.

They belligerently put our environment at the mercy of bureaucrats without mercy.

But they sound so good.

Photo from the first tree removal:

The obvious alternative to more totally wasteful environmental destruction in the Longfellow Bridge project.

The obvious alternative to more totally wasteful environmental destruction in the Longfellow Bridge project.

1. Report.
2. Links.
3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.

1. Report.

Sent to the Governor and his project manager [contact information below] on late in the afternoon of July 7, 2013 concerning the Longfellow Bridge project over the Charles River, Cambridge, MA 02139.

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The obvious alternative to more totally wasteful environmental destruction in the Longfellow Bridge project.

All you need to do is to connect to the sewer system, either DCR or Cambridge to take the drainage off the bridge.

I have been reading (and publishing) your lovely excuses for the destruction of the excellent grove of trees on the on ramp from Memorial Drive to Longfellow Bridge heading to Boston.

You seem to consider this engineer’s play thing you are creating to be some sort of item of irreplaceable value.

It is not. All the tear jerking does not change this very simple fact.

All you need to do is to connect to the sewer system, either DCR or Cambridge to take the drainage off the bridge.

In the meantime, you have moved one tree and announced impending destruction of the rest of this excellent grove on Monday, July 8, 2013, to be followed by some sort of after the fact public meeting on July 10, 2013, your first public meeting on the Longfellow Bridge project in Cambridge, where your totally unnecessary destruction is taking place.

Irresponsible, inexcuseable.

2. Links.

A few links:

Discussion with the key manager: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/more-details-on-protection-provided-by.html.

Our most recent destruction report, with photo and links to prior destruction: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/kendall-longfellow-cambridge-ma-usa.html.

An earlier accumulation of photos: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/longfellow-kendall-destruction.html.

Destruction of the grove on top of the red line: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/first-kendall-square-destruction.html.


3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.

If you feel like doing something meaningful, please do the following as rapidly as possible. Destruction resumes Monday, July 8.

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

State environmental people, DES Hotline: ESF.Hotline@state.ma.us.

MassDOT Accelerated Bridges Program: 857-368-8904 or Stephanie.Boundy@state.ma.us

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

Cambridge, MA, USA city councilors: Council@cambridgema.gov.

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For people listening to Boston Sierra Club endorsements of environmentally destructive members of the Cambridge City Council, you should be aware that

(1) using the world’s definition of “environmentalism,” there are no environmentally responsible members of the Cambridge City Council, and

(2) there are Cambridge Machine activists very visible and apparently very active in the Boston Sierra Club.

If you are talking to a person associated with the Boston Sierra Club, do a credibility check. Ask if they are familiar with the “Urban Ring” rapid transit proposal. This is a subway proposal designed to link the existing subway spokes. I have been working on it since 1985. Cambridge raised the project in a comment to an environmental Impact Statement in the last month or so.

If the Boston Sierra Club “expert” answers “yes,” that he / she is familiar with the Urban Ring rapid transit proposal, ask how many rail options there are. If the answer is “one,” you are getting the flat out lie put out by the City of Cambridge.

Cambridge’s flat out lie is that, of the TWO rail options, the only one that exists is the environmentally destructive streetcar option which the City of Cambridge supports. This option would be highly destructive to the environment near the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The reality is that THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS SUBSIDIZED THE OTHER OPTION, the responsible Orange Line / heavy rail option, the Kenmore crossing. The state legislature has subsidized the expansion of Yawkey Station as part of the massive Fenway Park area project which has gotten recent press.

Cambridge’s nonsensical proposal would move Yawkey Station three blocks. The Cambridge proposal would not work without moving Yawkey Station. The Kenmore Crossing uses the now subsidized and being expanded Yawkey Station as part of a brilliant megastation.

You should immediately respond to such nonsense from a Sierra Club “expert” by having nothing more to do with this person. Whether the person is stupid or venal is irrelevant, the person has no credibility and is not worthy of your time.

It is frequently difficult to pin these irresponsible people down in general. The deviant behavior in my test is extreme. They are pious in their demands that, if you are politically correct and pro environment, you have to rubber stamp them. Please do not waste your time arguing about destruction they can wiggle around.

Turn your back on them and walk away fast.

The Cambridge Machine ramps up its con games on the Charles River: signs on buildings

1. Report.
2. Links.
3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.

1. Report.

The Cambridge Machine is yelling about signs on buildings again.

One of the most important ways the Cambridge Machine lies and destroys the environment in Cambridge, MA, USA is by yelling about the small stuff.

The highly cynical tactic is to be silent on the important stuff and yell like mad about things which are much less important.

On the Charles River, the Machine yells about signs on buildings and renovating an old building which has been closed to the public for 80 years.

The Machine keeps as quiet as possible about its fights to kill off animals, starve and otherwise abuse them, destroy massive numbers of trees, destroy ground vegetation, wall off the Charles River from its banks, construct bizarre and very destructive bike highways, and dump poisons on the banks of the Charles.

So they yell that they are defending the Charles River. How dare you look at the important stuff. Help them with the much less important stuff and ignore the destruction they support

Ignore the imporant stuff except when they are expanding the problem and making things worse, then they will indulge in corrupt behavior to expand what they normally call beneath their consideration.

That woman is busy again. You know the one who fought for destruction at Alewife by saying that she was an expert at Alewife and that no destruction was coming. By that, whe helped with massive, totally wasteful destruction of acres of irreplaceable wilderness.

You know, she is the one who is telling people to do nothing about ongoing destruction of that irreplaceable grove of trees on the ramp from Memorial Drive to the Longfellow Bridge in Boston until Wednesday.

You know, she was one of the Cambridge Machine members who “passed” encouragement of destruction of hundreds of trees in a “motion” singular for corrupt behavior.

You know she is telling people concerned about those trees to wait until Wednesday and go to the fake public hearing.

The hearing is fake because an excellent grove has been needlessly destroyed, one tree in this grove has already been removed.

The hearing is fake because further destruction is slated to start on Monday, two days before the Wednesday “public hearing.”

The hearing is also fake because the bureaucrats brag about having conducted public hearings, but the public hearings they conducted were held in Boston, the destruction in Cambridge.

The hearing is also fake because the bureaucrats bury the destruction in fine print which is not mentioned any more than necessary, etc.

The hearing is also fake because the mentality is that their project is the be all and end all, and how dare you bother them with “existing conditions.” They will “do their best” with “existing conditions,” move some trees and plant some saplings. There, now is that not nice.

Well, the loud “protector” is yelling again. We go from destructive bureaucrats to the massive and routinely destructive Cambridge Machine, which is Oh, so Pious. The “protector” with the destructive record is defending the Charles River. She is objecting to signage on buildings.

So now something major is happening again. Destruction resumes on Monday.

She tells folks to sit on their hands until Wednesday.

But yell like mad about those building signs.

Golly gee. Business as usual in Cambridge, MA, USA.


2. Links.

A few links:

Discussion with the key manager: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/more-details-on-protection-provided-by.html.

Our most recent destruction report, with photo and links to prior destruction: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/kendall-longfellow-cambridge-ma-usa.html.

An earlier accumulation of photos: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/longfellow-kendall-destruction.html.

Destruction of the grove on top of the red line: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/first-kendall-square-destruction.html.

3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.

If you feel like doing something meaningful, please do the following as rapidly as possible. Destruction resumes Monday, July 8.

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

State environmental people, DES Hotline: ESF.Hotline@state.ma.us.

MassDOT Accelerated Bridges Program: 857-368-8904 or Stephanie.Boundy@state.ma.us

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

Cambridge, MA, USA city councilors: Council@cambridgema.gov.

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For people listening to Boston Sierra Club endorsements of environmentally destructive members of the Cambridge City Council, you should be aware that

(1) using the world’s definition of “environmentalism,” there are no environmentally responsible members of the Cambridge City Council, and

(2) there are Cambridge Machine activists very visible and apparently very active in the Boston Sierra Club.

If you are talking to a person associated with the Boston Sierra Club, do a credibility check. Ask if they are familiar with the “Urban Ring” rapid transit proposal. This is a subway proposal designed to link the existing subway spokes. I have been working on it since 1985. Cambridge raised the project in a comment to an environmental Impact Statement in the last month or so.

If the Boston Sierra Club “expert” answers “yes,” that he / she is familiar with the Urban Ring rapid transit proposal, ask how many rail options there are. If the answer is “one,” you are getting the flat out lie put out by the City of Cambridge.

Cambridge’s flat out lie is that, of the TWO rail options, the only one that exists is the environmentally destructive streetcar option which the City of Cambridge supports. This option would be highly destructive to the environment near the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The reality is that THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS SUBSIDIZED THE OTHER OPTION, the responsible Orange Line / heavy rail option, the Kenmore crossing. The state legislature has subsidized the expansion of Yawkey Station as part of the massive Fenway Park area project which has gotten recent press.

Cambridge’s nonsensical proposal would move Yawkey Station three blocks. The Cambridge proposal would not work without moving Yawkey Station. The Kenmore Crossing uses the now subsidized and being expanded Yawkey Station as part of a brilliant megastation.

You should immediately respond to such nonsense from a Sierra Club “expert” by having nothing more to do with this person. Whether the person is stupid or venal is irrelevant, the person has no credibility and is not worthy of your time.

It is frequently difficult to pin these irresponsible people down in general. The deviant behavior in my test is extreme. They are pious in their demands that, if you are politically correct and pro environment, you have to rubber stamp them. Please do not waste your time arguing about destruction they can wiggle around.

Turn your back on them and walk away fast.

Kendall — Longfellow, Cambridge, MA, USA: The Cambridge Machine “Gets Religion”

1. Report.
2. Contacts, Miscellaneous.


1. Report.

This an open letter to people who may have received yet another bizarre communication from the Cambridge Machine in response to my series of reports concerning MassDOT's plans to continue its outrageous destruction on the Cambridge end of the Longfellow Bridge, near Kendall Square.

MassDOT has destroyed an excellent grove of trees above the Red Line at the Cambridge end of the Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River. This is the second bridge to the east of the BU Bridge over the Charles River.

MassDOT has moved one excellent tree from the excellent grove lining the ramp from Memorial Drive to the Longfellow Bridge heading to Boston. MassDOT has promised to destroy and move the rest of that excellent grove starting Monday, July 8, 2013.

When you are dealing with the Cambridge Machine, reality is the rotten stuff rammed through as fast as possible in as corrupt a manner as is necessary.

Reality was the corrupt tactics in the fake vote a meeting or so ago when the Cambridge Machine fraudulently put its organization on record in support of destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge.

That is the secret fine print in the fine print all of which was kept as secret as possible. The less extreme destruction was also kept as secret as possible.

This is normal behavior with the Cambridge Machine.

Thus, it comes as no surprise to see a Cambridge Machine member with a strikingly bad record suddenly get religion and put out a lovely email which tells people to do nothing until after the July 10 meeting concerning the Longfellow Bridge outrage, and which email gives bizarre “reasons” for the destruction which bear no resemblance to anything MassDOT has put out.

The same person loudly called herself an expert on Alewife and told people nothing was going to be destroyed while it was still possible to prevent the wasteful destruction of acres of Alewife.

Reality is as I have described in my reports and the links included therein. The most recent report is at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/to-governor-patrick-longfellow-bridge.html.

You want to see the reality which this fraudulent actor claimed would not be done, look at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/cambridge-pols-destroy-alewife-photo.html. This is what the, oh so pious, writer said would not happen.

I have gone over reality. MassDOT has promised to start further destruction on Monday, July 8, 2013, and to conduct a meeting on July 10, 2013, apparently after the destruction is accomplished. The reasons for the destruction are nonsensical.

I have stood up to too many lies from the Cambridge Machine.

I have stood up to too much corrupt behavior from the Cambridge Machine.

“They would never stoop so low,” is the biggest lie on the Charles River.

You want to believe a woman who was part of that corrupt “vote,” you are way beneath respect.

You want to believe a woman who spouted that outrageous lie to help the destruction of Alewife, you are way beneath respect.

Most people live in reality.

2. Contacts, Miscellaneous.

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

State environmental people, DES Hotline: ESF.Hotline@state.ma.us.

MassDOT Accelerated Bridges Program: 857-368-8904 or Stephanie.Boundy@state.ma.us

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

Cambridge, MA, USA city councilors: Council@cambridgema.gov.

Plus the links provided in the above email.

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For people listening to Boston Sierra Club endorsements of environmentally destructive members of the Cambridge City Council, you should be aware that

(1) using the world’s definition of “environmentalism,” there are no environmentally responsible members of the Cambridge City Council, and

(2) there are Cambridge Machine activists very visible and apparently very active in the Boston Sierra Club.

If you are talking to a person associated with the Boston Sierra Club, do a credibility check. Ask if they are familiar with the “Urban Ring” rapid transit proposal. This is a subway proposal designed to link the existing subway spokes. I have been working on it since 1985. Cambridge raised the project in a comment to an environmental Impact Statement in the last month or so.

If the Boston Sierra Club “expert” answers “yes,” that he / she is familiar with the Urban Ring rapid transit proposal, ask how many rail options there are. If the answer is “one,” you are getting the flat out lie put out by the City of Cambridge.

Cambridge’s flat out lie is that, of the TWO rail options, the only one that exists is the environmentally destructive streetcar option which the City of Cambridge supports. This option would be highly destructive to the environment near the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The reality is that THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS SUBSIDIZED THE OTHER OPTION, the responsible Orange Line / heavy rail option, the Kenmore crossing. The state legislature has subsidized the expansion of Yawkey Station as part of the massive Fenway Park area project which has gotten recent press.

Cambridge’s nonsensical proposal would move Yawkey Station three blocks. The Cambridge proposal would not work without moving Yawkey Station. The Kenmore Crossing uses the now subsidized and being expanded Yawkey Station as part of a brilliant megastation.

You should immediately respond to such nonsense from a Sierra Club “expert” by having nothing more to do with this person. Whether the person is stupid or venal is irrelevant, the person has no credibility and is not worthy of your time.

It is frequently difficult to pin these irresponsible people down in general. The deviant behavior in my test is extreme. They are pious in their demands that, if you are politically correct and pro environment, you have to rubber stamp them. Please do not waste your time arguing about destruction they can wiggle around.

Turn your back on them and walk away fast.

To Governor Patrick: Longfellow Bridge, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA: Destruction Expands, Excrement gets Deeper.

1. Communication.
2. Complaint to the governor.
3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.


1. Communication.

The situation on the Cambridge End of the Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River is getting more and more irresponsible.

The state has wastefully destroyed an excellent grove of trees at the Cambridge end of the bridge above the Red Line subway.

The state has moved the first tree of the excellent grove on the ramp from Memorial Drive to the Longfellow Bridge toward Boston.

The state has announced its first public meeting in Cambridge on the project for July 10, 2013, mentioning none of the destruction in the announcement.

We have exchanged emails with the key planner. The key planner tells us that she has given public notice and that her destructiveness is the responsibility of the public. The public should have kept her from doing this.

So she has proven her lovely words to be so much nonsense by scheduling the first Cambridge meeting on the project for after the completion, it would appear, of the total destruction.

This is a brief summary of many reports on this blog.

2. Complaint to the governor.

July 4, 2013 at 4:25 pm, I left the following message on the governor’s email form.

RE: Longfellow Bridge: Irresponsible Destruction, Silly Excuses.

Governor Patrick:

Your Longfellow Bridge project is strikingly destructive of the environment while rather strongly playing irresponsible games.

The plan needlessly targets for destruction two excellent groves of trees at the Cambridge end of the Longfellow Bridge.

An excellent example of your administrations irresponsible handling of this outrage is the latest announcement for a “public meeting” on the matter, posted at http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/InformationCenter/WeeklyNewsletters/RoadtoReformNewsletter06282013.aspx.

Under this announcement, you are conducting your first “public meeting” in Cambridge, in which both of the irresponsible destruction of groves of trees is occurring. The announcement specifies exactly ZERO instances of tree destruction.

To make things worse, you have already accomplished the wasteful destruction of the excellent grove of trees above the red line subway at the Kendall end of the bridge. But you are only scheduling your first public meeting now for July 10, long after the destruction, destruction which is not mentioned in your announcement of the meeting.

This destruction is totally unnecessary. You can easily cross the median to change Boston bound traffic from the Boston bound direction to the Cambridge bound direction without destruction. You can rearrangement traffic by detours. Instead, you have destroyed irreplaceable trees.

I have reported the destruction at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/first-kendall-square-destruction.html.

You are targeting the magnificent grove of trees on the ramp from Memorial Drive to the Longfellow Bridge heading toward Boston. You already started destruction, as reported by me at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/kendall-longfellow-cambridge-ma-usa.html.

This was a silly transplantation. We have been informed that real destruction will start on July 8. Your FIRST “public hearing” in Cambridge is scheduled for July 10, probably after you have done all the destruction.

You are destroying this excellent, mature grove for a of silly project which seems more amenable to welfare for contractors than for any public need. It is outrageous.

The overwhelming explanation of your organizer for your irresponsible destruction is that somewhere buried in fine print, the public has been informed. Translation: How dare you fail to keep me from doing this terrible thing.

But, as I said, the notice for the way to late FIRST Cambridge “public hearing” makes no mention of either of these totally unnecessary outrages.

And notice does not change irresponsible, wasteful destruction to anything other than irresponsible wasteful destruction.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is dealing with very irresponsible people, the City of Cambridge. You are developing the stench of these people.

Shame on your irresponsible destruction. Shame on your irresponsible explanations.

3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

State environmental people, DES Hotline: ESF.Hotline@state.ma.us.

MassDOT Accelerated Bridges Program: 857-368-8904 or Stephanie.Boundy@state.ma.us

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

Cambridge, MA, USA city councilors: Council@cambridgema.gov.

Plus the links provided in the above email.

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For people listening to Boston Sierra Club endorsements of environmentally destructive members of the Cambridge City Council, you should be aware that

(1) using the world’s definition of “environmentalism,” there are no environmentally responsible members of the Cambridge City Council, and

(2) there are Cambridge Machine activists very visible and apparently very active in the Boston Sierra Club.

If you are talking to a person associated with the Boston Sierra Club, do a credibility check. Ask if they are familiar with the “Urban Ring” rapid transit proposal. This is a subway proposal designed to link the existing subway spokes. I have been working on it since 1985. Cambridge raised the project in a comment to an environmental Impact Statement in the last month or so.

If the Boston Sierra Club “expert” answers “yes,” that he / she is familiar with the Urban Ring rapid transit proposal, ask how many rail options there are. If the answer is “one,” you are getting the flat out lie put out by the City of Cambridge.

Cambridge’s flat out lie is that, of the TWO rail options, the only one that exists is the environmentally destructive streetcar option which the City of Cambridge supports. This option would be highly destructive to the environment near the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The reality is that THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS SUBSIDIZED THE OTHER OPTION, the responsible Orange Line / heavy rail option, the Kenmore crossing. The state legislature has subsidized the expansion of Yawkey Station as part of the massive Fenway Park area project which has gotten recent press.

Cambridge’s nonsensical proposal would move Yawkey Station three blocks. The Cambridge proposal would not work without moving Yawkey Station. The Kenmore Crossing uses the now subsidized and being expanded Yawkey Station as part of a brilliant megastation.

You should immediately respond to such nonsense from a Sierra Club “expert” by having nothing more to do with this person. Whether the person is stupid or venal is irrelevant, the person has no credibility and is not worthy of your time.

It is frequently difficult to pin these irresponsible people down in general. The deviant behavior in my test is extreme. They are pious in their demands that, if you are politically correct and pro environment, you have to rubber stamp them. Please do not waste your time arguing about destruction they can wiggle around.

Turn your back on them and walk away fast.

City Manager Healy Retires — A Response, Cambridge, MA, USA

1. Posting and response.
2. Editor response.


1. Posting and response.

My comment on the retirement of Cambridge, MA, USA City Manager Robert Healy is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/cambridge-ma-usa-city-manager-retires.html.

I appreciate the following response:

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Really, Bob, I know you despise the council, but Healy has been the untouchable heart of darkness in Cambridge politics for decades. This is HUGE beyond measure. This is the death of the heart of the rusty old machine, mark my words.

You just made my morning, as a former Cantabridgian.

Profound thanks!

2. Editor response.

My constant harping on the City Council, without mentioning Healy as much, comes from my opinion that Healy has been beneath bothering with.

Over many years, I have achieved more zoning changes than anybody else not employed by the City of Cambridge.

I have used the Zoning Ordinance as a tool for environmental activism by which the ordinary citizen can force a vote of the Cambridge City Council.

It is highly unlikely that Healy’s appointees or his friendly “activists” meaningfully supported any of my initiatives. It is very clear that the people controlling the fake groups have been the biggest problem in the most important initiatives, the three winning petitions which downzoned about 90% of Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge between Harvard and Central Squares, plus adjoining properties.

A very big difference between my zoning initiatives and those written by the City Manager’s people has been that mine have done what I say they would do.

The current outrages are just an extension of the destruction achieved by the Cambridge City Manager’s team over the years, commonly with the controllers of the fake groups lying about which side they were on.

The Cambridge City Council, supposedly, is responsible to the voters of the City of Cambridge. The dishonesties which the fake groups use to protect this extremely bad government entity from the voters have expanded greatly in recent years, along with the magnitude of the destruction.

The matters on which I have condemned the Cambridge City Council are all controlled by the Cambridge City Council. The final vote comes from the Cambridge City Council. They, and the fake groups, just do not want the voters to know the depth of the misbehavior of the Cambridge City Council.

One of the biggest lies tends to be: that is not Cambridge, it is [insert agency name], but the agencies run everything past the City of Cambridge. The City Council conducts foreign policy, and its minions say people should not discuss the destruction of the City of Cambridge with them?

Just another standard corrupt tactic from an organization which really amounts to corruption since the “activists” lie that they are independent and even worse, lie that they meaningfully represent somebody other than the City of Cambridge.

It is always folly to attempt to psychoanalyze each and every member of the Cambridge Machine. It is irrelevant. The reality is their actions and their unthinking devotion to a really destructive government, whether they think they are doing so or not. That is the purpose of company unions, fool well meaning people into destroying what the well meaning people think they stand for, either through action or inaction.

It is definitely possible, but highly unlikely, that all these destructive individuals are well meaning fools controlled by a very, very tiny number of people in the background. Whether they are knaves or fools is totally irrelevant. What is relevant is the reality of their actions.

The corrupt tactics used by the fake neighborhood association in seeking the expansion of destruction at Magazine Beach, including destruction of hundreds of trees, shows exactly where these fraudulent groups are really coming from. And those corrupt tactics are hardly novel from the fake groups. I could go on and on about the record of the fake groups, but I have been chastised for being too wordy.

More Details on the “Protection” Provided by the State in the Longfellow Bridge Destruction, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA.

1. Introduction.
2. Mishka email.
3. State reply.
4. Mishka’s Analysis.
5. Editor, public announcement.
6. Contacts, Miscellaneous.


1. Introduction.

We have done a lot on the environmental outrage which is part of the Longfellow Bridge project.

The following exchange of emails and Mishka’s analysis are pretty self explanatory.

2. Mishka email.

Sent Friday, June 28, 2013, 1:44 pm

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To: Boundy, Stephanie (DOT)
Subject: more on Trees near Longfellow Bridge

Dear Stephanie,

I looked more into the situation with trees near Longfellow Bridge.

With regard to the trees scheduled for removal after July 4, I believe that the project should hold a public hearing under Chapter 87 Section 3, both for legal reasons and for better public relations.

The legal side is that Chapter 87 Section 3, in particular, requires to hold a meeting such that a notice of such a meeting among other things is placed "upon the tree at least seven days before such hearing". I don't believe any notices of the possibly relevant meetings were posted on the affected trees yet, so I think there is a strong chance that the project is not yet in compliance with the law in this sense.

The public relations aspect of this is more involved.

On one hand people do notice and appreciate your efforts to protect a number of trees in the area.
So this is a positive side, and that's very good.

On the other hand, there is significant public discontent because of the two factors. One, people who attended a number of those meetings say that the subject of the trees was not raised at all. So they are ready to challenge the project's assertion that "the tree protection and removal plan has been presented at numerous public meetings and hearings during the previous phase of the project".
I am sure that the paperwork was filed, but whether this translated to a discussion available to the public and open to the public input specifically on the trees is another matter. That's why the law requires a separate meeting, with the notice posted on the affected trees.
This is specifically to avoid the situation, when there is an appearance of a discussion, but not enough chance for the actually meaningful discussion.

The second factor complicating the public relation aspect of this is the removal of the pines on June 19, 2013 just north of the MBTA's Kendall station portal.
It is true that the required meetings on that removal did take place, so from the legal viewpoint everything was done correctly in that case. But looking back at that event, the removal does not look reasonable. The officially stated reason is that "the trees must be removed to allow the contractor to install jersey barriers across the median to shift traffic traveling to Boston (on the upstream side of the bridge) to the downstream side". What is difficult to understand is why the jersey barriers location could not have been moved 20 meters to the west (north) from the portal along the Main Street. Moving it just 20 meters would seem to make no difference for the traffic, but would have preserved the trees. If there were deep reasons preventing this solution, those reasons were not comminucated well.

This second factor makes people want to scrutinize the asserion that "every effort has been made to minimize the number of impacted trees through careful design". This assertion might be correct, but people currently believe this was not the case for June 19 tree removal, and they would like to have a chance to scrutinize whether this assertion (of minimal impact) is correct in this case.

So, to summarize the public relation aspect, I believe that without a Chapter 87 Section 3 hearing which should be held somewhere in Cambridge before the actual tree removal, and should be advertized by, among other things, posting notices on the affected trees themselves at least seven days beforesuch hearings, the chance of negative publicity and bad press is quite high at this point.

In conclusion I'd like to say that I appreciate your efforts at tree protection, and please let me know, if a Chapter 87 Section 3 hearing would be scheduled in this case.

3. State reply.

July 2, 2013, 4:29 pm

I am following up on your inquiry regarding the Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation Project. I have confirmed with MassDOT and DCR Counsel that public shade trees along DCR boulevards are not subject to M.G.L. c. 87 since they do not fall under the definition of "public shade trees", thus not requiring the oversight of the local tree warden or a local public hearing prior to removal.

As indicated in my prior email, the tree protection and removal plan has been presented at numerous public meetings and hearings during the previous phase of the project, including general public information meetings and hearings for the Environmental Assessment, Environmental Notification Form and Notices of Intent. MassDOT has also coordinated extensively with the Department of Conservation and Recreation in preparing the plan and understands the value residents and visitors place on trees. Every effort has been made to minimize the number of impacted trees through careful design. A landscape architect and a certified arborist are part of the project team.

If you need any additional information, please do not hesitate to reach out to MassDOT.

Best,

Stephanie


4. Mishka’s Analysis.

July 2, 2013, 4:45 pm

Subject: These people pretend that these are not "public shade trees"

This is their standard trick, to claim that trees which from a layman viewpoint seem to obviously fall under the definition of public shade trees somehow are not public shade trees.

If one just reads the law, they seem to be quite in the wrong.

5. Editor, public announcement.

I previously gave a link to the announcement, at long last, of the first “public hearing” on this destruction in Cambridge where all the destruction is taking place.

Their public announcement is posted at http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/InformationCenter/WeeklyNewsletters/RoadtoReformNewsletter06282013.aspx.

With all the lovely words about “public” announcements of destruction, there is exactly ZERO statement of destruction of trees in this announcement.

6. Contacts, Miscellaneous.

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

State environmental people, DES Hotline: ESF.Hotline@state.ma.us.

MassDOT Accelerated Bridges Program: 857-368-8904 or Stephanie.Boundy@state.ma.us

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

Cambridge, MA, USA city councilors: Council@cambridgema.gov.

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For people listening to Boston Sierra Club endorsements of environmentally destructive members of the Cambridge City Council, you should be aware that

(1) using the world’s definition of “environmentalism,” there are no environmentally responsible members of the Cambridge City Council, and

(2) there are Cambridge Machine activists very visible and apparently very active in the Boston Sierra Club.

If you are talking to a person associated with the Boston Sierra Club, do a credibility check. Ask if they are familiar with the “Urban Ring” rapid transit proposal. This is a subway proposal designed to link the existing subway spokes. I have been working on it since 1985. Cambridge raised the project in a comment to an environmental Impact Statement in the last month or so.

If the Boston Sierra Club “expert” answers “yes,” that he / she is familiar with the Urban Ring rapid transit proposal, ask how many rail options there are. If the answer is “one,” you are getting the flat out lie put out by the City of Cambridge.

Cambridge’s flat out lie is that, of the TWO rail options, the only one that exists is the environmentally destructive streetcar option which the City of Cambridge supports. This option would be highly destructive to the environment near the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The reality is that THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS SUBSIDIZED THE OTHER OPTION, the responsible Orange Line / heavy rail option, the Kenmore crossing. The state legislature has subsidized the expansion of Yawkey Station as part of the massive Fenway Park area project which has gotten recent press.

Cambridge’s nonsensical proposal would move Yawkey Station three blocks. The Cambridge proposal would not work without moving Yawkey Station. The Kenmore Crossing uses the now subsidized and being expanded Yawkey Station as part of a brilliant megastation.

You should immediately respond to such nonsense from a Sierra Club “expert” by having nothing more to do with this person. Whether the person is stupid or venal is irrelevant, the person has no credibility and is not worthy of your time.

It is frequently difficult to pin these irresponsible people down in general. The deviant behavior in my test is extreme. They are pious in their demands that, if you are politically correct and pro environment, you have to rubber stamp them. Please do not waste your time arguing about destruction they can wiggle around.

Turn your back on them and walk away fast.

Cambridge, MA, USA City Manager Retires — So What!

1. City Manager Healy Reported Retiring.
2. So What! One defining moment.
3. The fake group system.
4. Will the new City Manager be better?


1. City Manager Healy Reported Retiring.

Boston.com / Boston Globe announces that Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy was retiring last Sunday, June 30, 2013. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/06/28/after-years-cambridge-city-manager-tenure-nears-end/MMEzJl8ga5liZgROTpy9XI/story.html.

2. So What! One defining moment.

Malvina Monteiro, Malvina Monteiro, Malvina Monteiro.

The Monteiro v. Cambridge case involved judge, jury and appeals court sending a very clear message to the Cambridge City Council, and, as is normal in the City of Cambridge, the Cambridge City Council simply “could not understand” the obvious.

Healy destroyed the life of the head of his Police Review Board, Malvina Monteiro, a black Cape Verdean woman. Judge, jury and appeals court say he did that in retaliation because she filed a civil rights / women’s complaint. I will not go over the analysis yet again.

The clear communication of judge, jury and appeals court was extreme malfeasance in office. They gave the city council clear direction and clear justification to fire the Cambridge City Manager without golden parachute and possibly without pension.

Exactly zero members voted for or made any public attempt whatsoever to meaningfully implement the court orders.

The total non action of the Cambridge City Council on firing the Cambridge City Manager after the issue of firing had been strongly established in decisions up to the appeals court says everything.

The very terrible situation in the City of Cambridge, MA is very much to the pleasure of an extremely bad city council. I realize that 1½ members were not around for the real problem, but you had a city manager who has been declared a pariah up to the appeals court. Even the subsequent members share the filth. In any case, the votes to destroy on the Cambridge Common and irresponsible bike highway routes say all that needs to be said.

3. The fake group system.

The fake groups with very real connections to the City Manager’s people date back to the original City Manager in this ongoing and expanding environmental outrage. The Cambridge City Manager wanted to destroy 23 or so hundred plus year old trees as part of a totally unneeded rearrangement of the city high school. The timing of rebuilding was such that the rebuilding could have occurred in place on top of buildings being replaced.

Dah Dah, a new group announced itself, declared itself above everything and fought for the destruction. Leaders of that group, during its existence, have indulged in corrupt behavior comparable with the recent outrage of the fake group in Cambridgeport.

Over the 40+ years, the biggest change in the fake groups has been the faces and possible questions as to whether new leaders are responsible individuals.

The first thing the Sullivan - Healy regime did was to destroy those excellent trees.

The last achievements of Healy were

A. Massive destruction and animal kills at Alewife which seem to be ready for a very great expansion, with two fake groups leading the way as good company unions by telling folks to look at everything else.

B. The vote of all nine irresponsible city councilors to destroy 22 excellent trees on the Cambridge Common, most because the block the view.

C. The ongoing destruction at Kendall / Longfellow.

D. The ongoing outrages on the Charles River with the corrupt behavior of one or two fake groups.

E. Plans for two bizarre bike highways with massive destruction on the Charles, destruction, of course, kept as secret as possible, but “not negotiable.”

4. Will the new City Manager be better?

The replacement was key in all the destruction where the City of Cambridge has been visible. And I have not mentioned the ongoing destruction at Fresh Pond.

The stench at Kendall / Longfellow is just one example of where an outrage is something which simply fits a very bad city government which always has its filthy hands in the ongoings. It is inconceivable that this wasteful destruction is independent of the City of Cambridge.

The Destroyed Nesting Area a Week After the Lazy, Destructive Workers Leave, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA

1. Report.
2. Contacts, Miscellaneous.


1. Report.

I visited the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese on June 30, 2013, and took the following pictures.

The first shot is coming down the staircase which Boston University illegally built, which would have been extremely convenient for parking next to Memorial Drive.

They are under the large tree between the staircase and the railroad tracks. The only other time I have seen the gaggle all gathered under this tree was when the heavy equipment for the BU Bridge work started destroying things.

They were probably keeping out of the heat in a location that had been barred to them for months.

The destroyed vegetation has been removed along with more vegetation of value. The Department of Conservation and Reservation is accelerating its attacks on the animals of the Charles River, in general and this formerly lush, vibrant habitat in particular. Even more horrifying than the destroyed ground vegetation is all that crushed stone dumped in an area which used to be, at least, clean dirt, created by prior irresponsible workers.

The last shot is of a barrier put in place to keep them from crossing the Memorial Drive on ramp, now functioning as Memorial Drive, to get to that luscious grass. So now they are even being starved from eating that little bit of grass.

The real rotters are the liars who claim to love Magazine Beach and tell people to ignore all the very terrible problems, but look at their lovely bathhouse. Destructive hypocrites are the very major environmental problem.

These destructive hypocrites are following in the foot steps of the destructive people fighting for the destruction of the Alewife reservation while lying that they are defending that irreplaceable area.

Both groups lie that Cambridge, MA, USA, its friends in government and its front people are worthy of respect.

2. Contacts, Miscellaneous.

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

State environmental people, DES Hotline: ESF.Hotline@state.ma.us.

MassDOT Accelerated Bridges Program: 857-368-8904 or Stephanie.Boundy@state.ma.us

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

Cambridge, MA, USA city councilors: Council@cambridgema.gov.

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For people listening to Boston Sierra Club endorsements of environmentally destructive members of the Cambridge City Council, you should be aware that

(1) using the world’s definition of “environmentalism,” there are no environmentally responsible members of the Cambridge City Council, and

(2) there are Cambridge Machine activists very visible and apparently very active in the Boston Sierra Club.

If you are talking to a person associated with the Boston Sierra Club, do a credibility check. Ask if they are familiar with the “Urban Ring” rapid transit proposal. This is a subway proposal designed to link the existing subway spokes. I have been working on it since 1985. Cambridge raised the project in a comment to an environmental Impact Statement in the last month or so.

If the Boston Sierra Club “expert” answers “yes,” that he / she is familiar with the Urban Ring rapid transit proposal, ask how many rail options there are. If the answer is “one,” you are getting the flat out lie put out by the City of Cambridge.

Cambridge’s flat out lie is that, of the TWO rail options, the only one that exists is the environmentally destructive streetcar option which the City of Cambridge supports. This option would be highly destructive to the environment near the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The reality is that THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS SUBSIDIZED THE OTHER OPTION, the responsible Orange Line / heavy rail option, the Kenmore crossing. The state legislature has subsidized the expansion of Yawkey Station as part of the massive Fenway Park area project which has gotten recent press.

Cambridge’s nonsensical proposal would move Yawkey Station three blocks. The Cambridge proposal would not work without moving Yawkey Station. The Kenmore Crossing uses the now subsidized and being expanded Yawkey Station as part of a brilliant megastation.

You should immediately respond to such nonsense from a Sierra Club “expert” by having nothing more to do with this person. Whether the person is stupid or venal is irrelevant, the person has no credibility and is not worthy of your time.

It is frequently difficult to pin these irresponsible people down in general. The deviant behavior in my test is extreme. They are pious in their demands that, if you are politically correct and pro environment, you have to rubber stamp them. Please do not waste your time arguing about destruction they can wiggle around.

Turn your back on them and walk away fast.

Reality and the irresponsible Kendall / Longfellow Destruction, Charles River, Cambridge / Boston, MA

1. Report.
2. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
3. Postscript - Prior communication from Bureaucrat.

1. Report.

The state is finally publicizing its Longfellow Bridge project in Cambridge, MA. They are finally holding a meeting on this project in Cambridge.

The outrageous, wasteful, and unnecessary destruction is ongoing and the meeting will probably be held after the worst of this totally unnecessary outrage. Prior meetings were conducted in Boston. The outrageous, wasteful and unnecessary destruction is occurring in Cambridge.

The notice may be read at: http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/InformationCenter/WeeklyNewsletters/RoadtoReformNewsletter06282013.aspx.

First of all, publicizing irresponsible plans do not relieve the irresponsible person of responsibility for irresponsible behavior.

“Shame on you, you should have kept me from doing this terrible thing” is what we got out of the key bureaucrat.

Nevertheless, this announcement should be carefully read and it should be noted that exactly ZERO destruction of trees is presented. This NON-ANNOUNCEMENT dramatically contrasts with the tone of the communication which this blog has now repeated twice.

But the bureaucrats are dealing in Cambridge, MA, a City with a belligerently irresponsible government and a carefully controlled Cambridge Machine running around lying about the piety of the city.

Business as usual in Cambridge, MA, USA.

2. Contacts, Miscellaneous.

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

State environmental people, DES Hotline: ESF.Hotline@state.ma.us.

MassDOT Accelerated Bridges Program: 857-368-8904 or Stephanie.Boundy@state.ma.us

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

Cambridge, MA, USA city councilors: Council@cambridgema.gov.

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For people listening to Boston Sierra Club endorsements of environmentally destructive members of the Cambridge City Council, you should be aware that

(1) using the world’s definition of “environmentalism,” there are no environmentally responsible members of the Cambridge City Council, and

(2) there are Cambridge Machine activists very visible and apparently very active in the Boston Sierra Club.

If you are talking to a person associated with the Boston Sierra Club, do a credibility check. Ask if they are familiar with the “Urban Ring” rapid transit proposal. This is a subway proposal designed to link the existing subway spokes. I have been working on it since 1985. Cambridge raised the project in a comment to an environmental Impact Statement in the last month or so.

If the Boston Sierra Club “expert” answers “yes,” that he / she is familiar with the Urban Ring rapid transit proposal, ask how many rail options there are. If the answer is “one,” you are getting the flat out lie put out by the City of Cambridge.

Cambridge’s flat out lie is that, of the TWO rail options, the only one that exists is the environmentally destructive streetcar option which the City of Cambridge supports. This option would be highly destructive to the environment near the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The reality is that THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS SUBSIDIZED THE OTHER OPTION, the responsible Orange Line / heavy rail option, the Kenmore crossing. The state legislature has subsidized the expansion of Yawkey Station as part of the massive Fenway Park area project which has gotten recent press.

Cambridge’s nonsensical proposal would move Yawkey Station three blocks. The Cambridge proposal would not work without moving Yawkey Station. The Kenmore Crossing uses the now subsidized and being expanded Yawkey Station as part of a brilliant megastation.

You should immediately respond to such nonsense from a Sierra Club “expert” by having nothing more to do with this person. Whether the person is stupid or venal is irrelevant, the person has no credibility and is not worthy of your time.

It is frequently difficult to pin these irresponsible people down in general. The deviant behavior in my test is extreme. They are pious in their demands that, if you are politically correct and pro environment, you have to rubber stamp them. Please do not waste your time arguing about destruction they can wiggle around.

Turn your back on them and walk away fast.

3. Postscript - Prior communication from Bureaucrat.

http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/longfellow-bridge-project-on-cambridge.html.

Longfellow - Kendall Destruction, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 23, 2013, ongoing, Cambridge Chronicle

1. Introduction.
2. May 23, 2013.
3. June 27, 2013.
4. Mishka.
5. Cambridge Chronicle.


1. Introduction.

Mishka has forwarded me seven photos of the destruction zone on the ramp from Memorial Drive to the Longfellow Bridge heading south.

I returned to Cambridge to go to law school in 1970. I think I recall admiring this grove then.

The first group of photos are of trees slated for imminent destruction (red paint), May 23, 2013.

The second group of photos are from yesterday, June 27, 2013.

I have recently done some good documentation of the corruption of one of the Cambridge Machine’s most currently destructive fake groups. This destruction is part of their filth. That is the purpose of Company Union organizations. Then there are the hundreds of trees their corrupt practices have fought to destroy between here and the BU Bridge, the 22 trees targeted on the Cambridge Common, the acres of needless destruction accomplished at Alewife, soon to be expanded to possible total destruction.

The rottenness in Cambridge, MA, USA, is the Cambridge Machine in combination with a strikingly bad city government with all lying about reality and telling well intentioned folks to chase their tails.

State or local is irrelevant. The rottenness in the City of Cambridge is omnipresent.

2. May 23, 2013.

All slated for prompt destruction (red paint)

3. June 27, 2013.

4. Mishka.

In the early May we noted that a number of trees near the Cambridge
side of the Longfellow Bridge were marked with red paint and
yellow and green tape.

Later in May we contacted the bridge project officials, who indicated
that

"he yellow ribbon with a paint mark on the tree means that the tree
is removed in phase 1. The yellow ribbon with no paint mark means
the tree will be removed in a later phase. The trees with green ribbon
are trees that are going to be transplanted."

As a follow-up I wrote the following e-mail to the project
representative on May 30.

***

I have a follow-up question: are there any plans to hold
a public meeting or a Chapter 87 hearing in connection
with those trees?

I think a number of people who live or work in that area
are concerned about tree loss. So if people representing
the Longfellow Bridge project share the details and
reasons which make this tree loss unavoidable, it would be
very helpful.

***

Unfortunately, the bridge project so far did not respond
positively to this request. Instead they've send an e-mail
which contained the tree removal plans as an attachment, but
only had the following as an explanation:

"The tree protection and removal plan has been presented at numerous
public meetings and hearings during the previous phase of the project,
including general public information meetings and hearings for the
Environmental Assessment, Environmental Notification Form and Notices of
Intent. MassDOT has also coordinated extensively with the Department of
Conservation and Recreation in preparing the plan and understands the
value residents and visitors place on trees. Every effort has been made to
minimize the number of impacted trees through careful design. A landscape
architect and a certified arborist are part of the project team.

MassDOT's Design Build team White-Skanska-Consigli is transplanting eight
trees on the Boston side of the bridge and nine on the Cambridge side.
These trees are marked with green ribbon. Transplanting will be completed
by the end of June. Tree removal will begin after the 4th of July. Trees
that will be removed during Phase 1 of the project are marked with a
yellow ribbon and paint. Trees that will be removed in a later phase are
marked with a yellow ribbon only. Please refer to the Tree Protection and
Removal Plan for details."

That's not good enough. First of all, some people who were present
during a number of those meetings say the issue of the trees never
was discussed (perhaps it was discussed at some other meetings, but
there is no way to verify that). It's not enough that some plans are
on file somewhere.

Then there is a clear requirement of Chapter 87 Section 3 of
Massachusetts General Laws to hold a meeting such that a notice
of such a meeting among other things is placed "upon the tree at least
seven days before such hearing". In this case we see no evidence
that a notice of any of these meetings was posted on the affected trees.

I think the project should present its plans for public scrutiny
in a manner prescribed by law, rather than making an attempt to
avoid extra public scrutiny.

********************************************

I did not mention the June 19 fiasco here, but it is certainly
relevant in that it gives people extra grounds not to fully trust
the statement that "Every effort has been made to
minimize the number of impacted trees through careful design".

We certainly appreciate the efforts the project is doing to
protect many trees. At the same time, the removal of
trees which happened on June 19 is very difficult to justify,
and increases the desire of people to scrutinize the situation
further in this case.

5. Cambridge Chronicle.

Part of the rotten situation in Cambridge is the conversion of the Cambridge Chronicle from a house rag which allows the other side to speak to a house rag which censors responsible comment which disagrees with the nonsense put out by the City of Cambridge and the Cambridge Machine.

A few days ago, I sent out a letter to the Cambridge Chronicle praising the Executive Director of the Cambridge Conservation Commission for responsible behavior at the Destroyed Nesting Area, standing up to state destructiveness.

To no surprise, that praise did not make it into today’s Cambridge Chronicle.

She did print a long editorial publicizing a irrelevant change in process. You publicize process, that gives the impression you are concerned with reality.

No printing of reality.