1. Question.
2. Money.
3. Would they be willing to kill?
4. Summary.
1. Question.
I would like to understand the Cambridge Machine better.
How much money is split? Is organized crime involved, and to what extent? Would they be ready to kill people, if they think the threat to their power is real?
2. Money.
The money probably is unproveable. You have the standard boycott of noncompliant persons and the very clear threat of such shunning. And the standard situation in which professionals active in Cambridge see approvals to their benefit elsewhere, approvals which would be lost if the activists were meaningfully doing what they say they are doing. They would be shunned if they were meaningfully doing what they say they are doing.
The exact workings are undeterminent. It is a matter of a fake reality in which the voters are told one thing and the developers and contractors know better. So both sides are kept happy.
The situation dates back to James Leo Sullivan who used his Development Department to create a series of "neighborhood associations" naturally including his friends. The controllers of the various controlled entities gave the groups apparent functions which they fulfilled except insofar as the functions conflicted with the wishes of the city government. The groups are controlled by smaller core entities which are hand selected by the creators. In the past, I have had significant successes by calling out people to meetings, but, with the death of rent control, there was no need for the pols to keep an eye on each other. Then, the falsities got much more intense.
The reality, however, is that it is always impossible to identify specific types. Many folks are simply outnumbered by con artists who gang up on them. At least in theory it is impossible to tell the knaves from the fools. They all sound and act alike. So many very terrible things, in reality, have seeds in the Cambridge City Government which are buried as far as possible.
The first target was the best park in the central part of the city for a high school expansion which could have been done in place as a campus style school, but they wanted a consolidated school and they wanted to expand the library in place. 23 hundred year old trees were destroyed with the lie: we are replacing the Cambridge Street park with a park on Broadway. Excellent trees with grass and a lot of saplings. The obvious happened. The library expansion was done and almost all the saplings were destroyed. The back stabbers on Broadway got what they deserved and the city and the environment lost badly.
I got a preliminary injunction which lost because the judge found that the park was not a park.
The common law action upon which I based my case has been subsequently watered down so as to make further such initiatives much more difficult if even possible.
There always has been a closely knit core which works together. They were liberal types, most of whom supported rent control. With the death of rent control, Cambridge lost its party system in which the pro and anti rent control factions kept an eye on each other. So the blue collar, anti rent control (landlords, laborers) and the white collar / educational, pro rent control (architects) got together with the city manager's people in the background and significant numbers of city councilors in the background.
The issues which brought the entities together were supposed zoning protections. Once rent control died, the fake initiatives got much more real and deceptive.
A good example is the historical building at 10 Mount Auburn Street in Harvard Square. I saved that building in front of the Rent Control Board. A city manager related zoning petition created the Harvard Square Overlay District, giving meaningless public input in exchange for very real destruction of key fine print in the zoning ordinance. The project built at 8 to 10 Mt. Auburn included the building I saved at a density which would have been impossible before that upzoning. And it goes on.
I stood up to the bastards and frequently had very major successes with The Machine very often being the real opponents. After the death of rent control, their zoning initiatives started getting more and more successful as both sides split the spoils of fake protections.
I was deeply concerned about the Alewife reservation. I found a "protective" group created with machine connections. I was outorganized by The Machine. They are destroying Alewife lying that they are protecting. The game is to yell at private developers on the periphery, tell people to fight, fight, fight, and ignore the real problem, the intention of Cambridge and the state to destroy the core Alewife reservation, supposedly for flood protection, in reality to create an urban park supporting office buildings in place of the historical woodlands the "activists" claim to love.
Talking with the supposed activists in the local supposed neighborhood association is very telling. They are willing to do anything on the issue except the one thing which would work: talk to the city council. Very much the standard situation: company unions which prevent meaningful action by getting people to do anything except things which could win.
The first stage of destruction has occurred at Alewife. Acres have been destroyed for "flood protection" against two year storms, which are nothing.
The area needs storm protection. The alternative to destroying Alewife is to build flood protection with city and state money as large reservoirs under new buildings. The Machine is running around yelling Silver Maple Forest until there are no buildings left to put meaningful flood protection under. The "leader" went into the Chronicle bragging about the first phase destruction, and has continued loudly yelling to play Don Quixote against projects but not against the zoning which creates them.
One of the nastiest things was the Sheila Cook zoning petition which I wrote and Sheila led. The "activists" treated Sheila like crap. Her zoning changed the legal use of a parking lot on state land to open space. When the owner agreed to convert the parking lot to open space, The Machine conducted a celebration in which Machine Activists were treated like royalty and Sheila and I were ignored, shunned.
The same con exists on the Charles River. The pitch is to ignore the very real problems irresponsibly created over the past 13 years and ignore the irresponsible plans to make things even worse. When the state wanted to expand the outrage, The Machine tried to ram it through, but The Meeting front organization did not look like it would approve the outrage. So they delayed the action from the January meeting to the February meeting which was held on April 23 at which time they demonstrated clear corruption.
Throughout all this, the key is holier than thou goals which have a strong tendency not only not to be achieved but to see achievements which the group supposedly opposes. Good people are being misused by lies of omission and commission and by fake definitions under which "environmentalism" has become protecting that part of the environment the City of Cambridge does not feel like destroying at the present time.
By now all active pols have to be part of The Machine or else.
Interestingly, the senator representing the Western part of the city is running for congress bragging of defending Alewife. I explained reality to one of his workers who was appropriate shocked.
3. Would they be willing to kill?
The killing is white collar, shunning.
The destruction of the life of Malvina Monteiro because she filed a civil rights complaint is one of the few excellent examples which have escaped the deliberate murk of shunning.
Judge, Jury and Appeals Court condemned the Cambridge City Manager for destroying the life of Malvina Monteiro in very strong terms.
The decisions gave the Cambridge City Council full power to fire the Cambridge City Manager for malfeasance in office.
Exactly zero attempts were made to fire the Cambridge City Manager. A motion to slap him on the wrist was tabled with some folks who filed the motion voting to table.
4. Summary.
This response, of necessity, left a lot out. Of necessity, for exposition purposes, there are problems with historically following one point after another above. If you notice that problem, please excuse me. Of necessity, as well, are defects in perfect exposition. Perfect exposition would take many, many words. There are analyses on this blog which attempt that. They are very long and thus unreadible.
The situation in Cambridge, MA is rotten. It, however, has a core upon which the structure lacks strength. They live on a foundation of lies. The lies are provable.
The way to win is to put together decent people who are free of the filth, and keep those who are part of the filth out. The core principal is back stabbing with a smile. Persons with any record of back stabbing have to be kept out of any meaningful organization.
Saturday, August 03, 2013
Friday, August 02, 2013
Updates, Mass. Governor’s Tree Destruction: Kendall / Longfellow, Memorial Drive, Charles River, MA
1. Introduction.
2. Longfellow Bridge Repairs.
3. Memorial Drive.
1. Introduction.
We have done extended reports on these problems. This will be concise.
2. Longfellow Bridge Repairs.
The Longfellow Bridge is the second bridge east of the BU Bridge crossing the Charles River.
The project, with possible disclosure somewhere in the fine print, includes inexcusable destruction of excellent groves of trees on the Kendall end of the Longfellow above the subway track tunnel and of a magnificent grove east of the Cambridge end of the Longfellow Bridge next to the ramp from Memorial Drive heading east to the Longfellow Bridge heading to Boston.
The destruction above the subway seems to have been to create a storage area for garbage used in the project, totally unnecessary for the rearrangement of the roadways. A crossover could have been created further into Kendall Square without destruction of that excellent grove.
The destruction of the grove on the access ramp has been given bizarre excuses. The apparent reason is that the engineers are creating a new (lovely to them) toy: They are doing natural storm drainage off the bridge rather than tieing into the existing storm drain systems. Outrageous. But then again, Cambridge has imminent plans to destroy excellent trees on the Cambridge Common because the block the view, and on Memorial Drive with the explanation that Memorial Drive will look great in 40 years.
Mishka’s report:
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After double-checking, I don't think there was any change in the tree status between Jul 19 and Aug 1.
Two trees are marked for destruction, and one tree marked for transplantation.
Unfortunately, I have to add one more tree to the threatened list: it is not marked, but it is not protected and is "in the wrong place" (very close to the bridge). Moreover, a tree near it is gone (probably at the same time, when the 4 other trees were killed), and it was not marked either
to be best of my knowledge.
3. Memorial Drive.
This is the outrage that the con artists ran around calling “underpasses”, telling people to look at the next three bridges west of the BU Bridge.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation rejected the project based solely on the lie given to the public. They consider the actual “underpasses” irresponsible and destructive.
The secret fine print came out in the governor’s budget proposal request for bond authorization: $4 million for the underpasses, $24 million for the associated “paths.”
The associated paths stretch to the Longfellow Bridge and including destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges, stretching not that far from the above outrage.
The budgets are horribly confusing. I have based my concerns on an expert read of the bubbly nonsense put out by the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy.”
This bond authorization would have been in the transportation budget. It seems to have completed its process a week ago.
The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” had announced it was seeking this falsely named project through lobbying during the period of consideration of the budget.
It has been a week, apparently since the completion of the effort. This falsely named group has not chortled, using the blatantly false description, of its success in getting bond authorization to destroy those hundreds of trees.
I assume these excellent trees are safe for the time being.
But the reality is that Cambridge, MA, has a rotten city government protected by a massive organization with non stop lies of “holier than thou.”
2. Longfellow Bridge Repairs.
3. Memorial Drive.
1. Introduction.
We have done extended reports on these problems. This will be concise.
2. Longfellow Bridge Repairs.
The Longfellow Bridge is the second bridge east of the BU Bridge crossing the Charles River.
The project, with possible disclosure somewhere in the fine print, includes inexcusable destruction of excellent groves of trees on the Kendall end of the Longfellow above the subway track tunnel and of a magnificent grove east of the Cambridge end of the Longfellow Bridge next to the ramp from Memorial Drive heading east to the Longfellow Bridge heading to Boston.
The destruction above the subway seems to have been to create a storage area for garbage used in the project, totally unnecessary for the rearrangement of the roadways. A crossover could have been created further into Kendall Square without destruction of that excellent grove.
The destruction of the grove on the access ramp has been given bizarre excuses. The apparent reason is that the engineers are creating a new (lovely to them) toy: They are doing natural storm drainage off the bridge rather than tieing into the existing storm drain systems. Outrageous. But then again, Cambridge has imminent plans to destroy excellent trees on the Cambridge Common because the block the view, and on Memorial Drive with the explanation that Memorial Drive will look great in 40 years.
Mishka’s report:
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After double-checking, I don't think there was any change in the tree status between Jul 19 and Aug 1.
Two trees are marked for destruction, and one tree marked for transplantation.
Unfortunately, I have to add one more tree to the threatened list: it is not marked, but it is not protected and is "in the wrong place" (very close to the bridge). Moreover, a tree near it is gone (probably at the same time, when the 4 other trees were killed), and it was not marked either
to be best of my knowledge.
3. Memorial Drive.
This is the outrage that the con artists ran around calling “underpasses”, telling people to look at the next three bridges west of the BU Bridge.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation rejected the project based solely on the lie given to the public. They consider the actual “underpasses” irresponsible and destructive.
The secret fine print came out in the governor’s budget proposal request for bond authorization: $4 million for the underpasses, $24 million for the associated “paths.”
The associated paths stretch to the Longfellow Bridge and including destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges, stretching not that far from the above outrage.
The budgets are horribly confusing. I have based my concerns on an expert read of the bubbly nonsense put out by the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy.”
This bond authorization would have been in the transportation budget. It seems to have completed its process a week ago.
The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” had announced it was seeking this falsely named project through lobbying during the period of consideration of the budget.
It has been a week, apparently since the completion of the effort. This falsely named group has not chortled, using the blatantly false description, of its success in getting bond authorization to destroy those hundreds of trees.
I assume these excellent trees are safe for the time being.
But the reality is that Cambridge, MA, has a rotten city government protected by a massive organization with non stop lies of “holier than thou.”
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Longfellow Bridge, Magazine Beach, 80 year unused Bathhouse; Charles River, Cambridge, MA
1. Background, Longfellow Bridge “defenders” and destructive nonsense on the Charles River.
2. Response.
3. Editor’s Reply.
4. Caveat.
1. Background, Longfellow Bridge “defenders” and destructive nonsense on the Charles River.
In my last report, I commented on the Cambridge Machine suddenly noticing the Longfellow Bridge project, which has seen outrageous and unnecessary tree destruction. I was particularly observant of the leader of the Cambridgeport front organization of the Cambridge Machine crying about pollution, automobile pollution.
I analyzed his suddenly found environmental outrage in the context of his and his organization’s destructiveness at Magazine Beach and with regard to the hundreds of trees targeted for destruction with Machine support and corrupt practices between Magazine Beach / BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge on the Charles River.
The report was posted at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/cambridge-machine-notices-longfellow.html.
I have received the following response and replied with an earlier draft of section 3.
2. Response.
Thanks Bob for your work and explanations. I am very disappointed in the Magazine Beach push to renovate as opposed to protecting the natural environment. I don't need another "monument" to war in the building down there, I say let it rot and that's just what I told the committee !
3. Editor’s Reply.
Thank you very much.
The most bizarre aspect to their irresponsible behavior is that none of the irresponsible actions at Magazine Beach were done other than through secrecy and lying. The wall barring access between the Charles River and Magazine Beach is explained solely as incompetence. They do not know how to chop down bushes.
The poisons being dumped to keep alive the sickly grass can be remedied by spending money on seed for the grass which survived the better part of a century and was stupidly destroyed. Sew seeds for that grass, rather than spreading poisons.
Reinstituting the responsible grass would allow Cambridge and its friends, should they care, to spend money on returning the playing fields to their size before the start of destruction. Playing field size has been reduced for fancy drainage to keep poisons out of the Charles which should not even be dumped there.
The real reason for the renovations to the building which has not been used for 80 years is to prevent needed repairs on the Charles River to undo outrages created by Cambridge and its friends. This is the standard company union game regularly and destructively used by the Cambridge Machine.
At Magazine Beach, they are lying that they love the Charles River. In reality, they are seeking something to get people chasing their tails over rather than behaving in a constructive manner and undoing 13 years of unnecessary destruction.
The corruption inherent in the vote
(a) to expand the outrage at the playing fields to the top of the hill and to the wetlands behind the swimming pool,
(b) plus to destroy the parking lot needed for the picnic area which they lie that they love,
says everything about their real concerns.
Fooling responsible people into chasing their tails is the same tactic which has been used and continues to be used by the Cambridge Machine in its fight for
(a) the already accomplished partial destruction and
(b) the forthcoming total destruction
of the publicly owned areas of the Alewife Reservation in the western part of Cambridge.
4. Caveat.
A responsible analysis of Cambridge Machine destructiveness cannot possibly distinguish between the knaves and the fools. My analysis of reality looks at the overall situation and does not waste time on the fact that it is entirely possible, but highly unlikely, that all the visible people have been conned.
The ongoing and applicable analysis of Cambridge Machine members, which has been true for the 35 years I have been fighting them, is: “You cannot possibly be so stupid.”
And I have many successes, including spectacular successes.
2. Response.
3. Editor’s Reply.
4. Caveat.
1. Background, Longfellow Bridge “defenders” and destructive nonsense on the Charles River.
In my last report, I commented on the Cambridge Machine suddenly noticing the Longfellow Bridge project, which has seen outrageous and unnecessary tree destruction. I was particularly observant of the leader of the Cambridgeport front organization of the Cambridge Machine crying about pollution, automobile pollution.
I analyzed his suddenly found environmental outrage in the context of his and his organization’s destructiveness at Magazine Beach and with regard to the hundreds of trees targeted for destruction with Machine support and corrupt practices between Magazine Beach / BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge on the Charles River.
The report was posted at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/cambridge-machine-notices-longfellow.html.
I have received the following response and replied with an earlier draft of section 3.
2. Response.
Thanks Bob for your work and explanations. I am very disappointed in the Magazine Beach push to renovate as opposed to protecting the natural environment. I don't need another "monument" to war in the building down there, I say let it rot and that's just what I told the committee !
3. Editor’s Reply.
Thank you very much.
The most bizarre aspect to their irresponsible behavior is that none of the irresponsible actions at Magazine Beach were done other than through secrecy and lying. The wall barring access between the Charles River and Magazine Beach is explained solely as incompetence. They do not know how to chop down bushes.
The poisons being dumped to keep alive the sickly grass can be remedied by spending money on seed for the grass which survived the better part of a century and was stupidly destroyed. Sew seeds for that grass, rather than spreading poisons.
Reinstituting the responsible grass would allow Cambridge and its friends, should they care, to spend money on returning the playing fields to their size before the start of destruction. Playing field size has been reduced for fancy drainage to keep poisons out of the Charles which should not even be dumped there.
The real reason for the renovations to the building which has not been used for 80 years is to prevent needed repairs on the Charles River to undo outrages created by Cambridge and its friends. This is the standard company union game regularly and destructively used by the Cambridge Machine.
At Magazine Beach, they are lying that they love the Charles River. In reality, they are seeking something to get people chasing their tails over rather than behaving in a constructive manner and undoing 13 years of unnecessary destruction.
The corruption inherent in the vote
(a) to expand the outrage at the playing fields to the top of the hill and to the wetlands behind the swimming pool,
(b) plus to destroy the parking lot needed for the picnic area which they lie that they love,
says everything about their real concerns.
Fooling responsible people into chasing their tails is the same tactic which has been used and continues to be used by the Cambridge Machine in its fight for
(a) the already accomplished partial destruction and
(b) the forthcoming total destruction
of the publicly owned areas of the Alewife Reservation in the western part of Cambridge.
4. Caveat.
A responsible analysis of Cambridge Machine destructiveness cannot possibly distinguish between the knaves and the fools. My analysis of reality looks at the overall situation and does not waste time on the fact that it is entirely possible, but highly unlikely, that all the visible people have been conned.
The ongoing and applicable analysis of Cambridge Machine members, which has been true for the 35 years I have been fighting them, is: “You cannot possibly be so stupid.”
And I have many successes, including spectacular successes.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Cambridge Machine notices Longfellow Bridge
1. Activities noticed.
2. Summary.
1. Activities noticed.
The listserve which is run by the Cambridgeport front organization of the Cambridge Machine has suddenly seen a bunch of discussion on the state’s repairs to the Longfellow Bridge. The Longfellow Bridge is the second bridge east of the BU Bridge.
Most of the comments simply gripe about the impact on transportation flow during construction. The leader of the front organization has twice, at least, decried the project for environmental harm, pollution from cars.
Now Councilor / State Representative Toomey has noticed the situation and has an order marked up for the next Cambridge City Council meeting on July 29, 2013.
2. Summary.
Over the past several weeks, we have reported outrageous destruction of two magnificent groves of trees on the Cambridge end of the Longfellow Bridge by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).
This destruction follows on corrupt practices by the Cambridge Machine which supported the destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge if you dig far enough and translate code words they way they can and normally would be translated. The destruction was supported in fine print of fine print, with a not at all surprising interpretation. The fought for destruction stretches pretty close to the Longfellow Bridge.
I will not go yet again into this particular outrage, except to note that the head of the front organization walked out of the February meeting (conducted on April 23) at exactly the point when the most recent part of the outrage was beginning, the blatantly fake vote.
No purpose was given for him leaving, although the most basic part of the outrage was the deferral of the February meeting for two months followed by the fake and horribly complicated vote being scheduled for the last ten minutes with the wording passed out at the beginning of the last ten minutes and Charles River supporters driven away by the delay.
There is no indication that the head of the group ever walked out on approvals by the Cambridge Machine for the “underpasses” proposal which was translated by the Governor’s funding to include bond authorization for destruction of those hundreds of trees.
Interestingly, the head of the group is now yelling about traffic being reduced to one lane from two in this project and never, to my knowledge, has he publicly objected to traffic on Western Avenue in Cambridge next to Cambridgeport getting the same treatment by the City of Cambridge. Very clearly, Western Avenue is a much greater nightmare for traffic traveling in that one direction than is the Longfellow Bridge.
Both projects are ongoing at the same time. The most important other differences between the two projects are
1. MassDOT is handling bicycles responsibly and Cambridge will supposedly confine bicycles to the sidewalks as part of their project.
2. MassDOT is irresponsibly destroying trees and Cambridge is not.
The environmental noise fits the standard package of the Cambridge Machine. Yell loudly about the lesser stuff and destroy, destroy, destroy, on the big stuff, while keeping the big destruction as secret as possible and acted on as rapidly as possible.
Such tactics exactly fit what looks like a norm, a norm which is hard to call approaching good faith, and, as usual, things are made as murky as they can get away with.
2. Summary.
1. Activities noticed.
The listserve which is run by the Cambridgeport front organization of the Cambridge Machine has suddenly seen a bunch of discussion on the state’s repairs to the Longfellow Bridge. The Longfellow Bridge is the second bridge east of the BU Bridge.
Most of the comments simply gripe about the impact on transportation flow during construction. The leader of the front organization has twice, at least, decried the project for environmental harm, pollution from cars.
Now Councilor / State Representative Toomey has noticed the situation and has an order marked up for the next Cambridge City Council meeting on July 29, 2013.
2. Summary.
Over the past several weeks, we have reported outrageous destruction of two magnificent groves of trees on the Cambridge end of the Longfellow Bridge by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).
This destruction follows on corrupt practices by the Cambridge Machine which supported the destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge if you dig far enough and translate code words they way they can and normally would be translated. The destruction was supported in fine print of fine print, with a not at all surprising interpretation. The fought for destruction stretches pretty close to the Longfellow Bridge.
I will not go yet again into this particular outrage, except to note that the head of the front organization walked out of the February meeting (conducted on April 23) at exactly the point when the most recent part of the outrage was beginning, the blatantly fake vote.
No purpose was given for him leaving, although the most basic part of the outrage was the deferral of the February meeting for two months followed by the fake and horribly complicated vote being scheduled for the last ten minutes with the wording passed out at the beginning of the last ten minutes and Charles River supporters driven away by the delay.
There is no indication that the head of the group ever walked out on approvals by the Cambridge Machine for the “underpasses” proposal which was translated by the Governor’s funding to include bond authorization for destruction of those hundreds of trees.
Interestingly, the head of the group is now yelling about traffic being reduced to one lane from two in this project and never, to my knowledge, has he publicly objected to traffic on Western Avenue in Cambridge next to Cambridgeport getting the same treatment by the City of Cambridge. Very clearly, Western Avenue is a much greater nightmare for traffic traveling in that one direction than is the Longfellow Bridge.
Both projects are ongoing at the same time. The most important other differences between the two projects are
1. MassDOT is handling bicycles responsibly and Cambridge will supposedly confine bicycles to the sidewalks as part of their project.
2. MassDOT is irresponsibly destroying trees and Cambridge is not.
The environmental noise fits the standard package of the Cambridge Machine. Yell loudly about the lesser stuff and destroy, destroy, destroy, on the big stuff, while keeping the big destruction as secret as possible and acted on as rapidly as possible.
Such tactics exactly fit what looks like a norm, a norm which is hard to call approaching good faith, and, as usual, things are made as murky as they can get away with.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Alewife’s new meadows and reality, Cambridge, MA, USA
A very major part of the corrupt situation in Cambridge is for the Cambridge Machine constantly to express its love for what it is fighting to destroy.
The editor of the Cambridge Chronicle stopped publishing my letters after I refused to delete a comment in a proposed letter stating that the leader of the fake protective group at Alewife was fighting to destroy Alewife. Even worse, I pointed her to a letter in the Cambridge Chronicle from this person in which the person bragged about the first stage of destruction by the City of Cambridge and friends.
So the Chronicle has repeatedly printed fake “protective” letters yelling about private development at Alewife and censored letters objecting to ongoing efforts at public destruction at Alewife.
This is a very clear change in policy. The Cambridge Chronicle used to publish the City destruction supporting puff pieces but also allowed responsible comments in response at Alewife and elsewhere.
Now the Cambridge Chronicle just publishes the con games with their false and distorted presentation of reality. This amounts to lies of omission.
The corrupt behavior by the front organization supporting destruction on the Charles River is another excellent example. Repeated puff pieces amounting to fraud because of the “love” expressed while silent on the destruction supported have been published while censoring reality.
When the previous editor left, he mentioned he was leaving because of differences between him and the publisher. Could the allowance of the advanced but very real campaigns of fraud without allowing responses by responsible people be the difference he resigned over?
Last Thursday, July 18, the Cambridge Chronicle published an extended oped cooing over the replacement of the parking lot between route 2 and Alewife Station by allowing it to return to nature.
I proposed the following letter to the editor.
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Editor
Cambridge Chronicle
You printed praise for the meadow at Alewife created from a parking lot between route 2 and Alewife Station. The way things are being manipulated, it looks like all of the publicly owned woodlands at Alewife could become meadows.
I wrote the zoning petition which Sheila Cook led and which the owner of the former parking lot, Richard MacKinnon, credits for the return of meadow in place of parking. You have recently reported on the second of MacKinnon’s projects south of Cambridge ParkDrive. MacKinnon’s projects are being built with flood protection under them, but, had the City of Cambridge been behaving in a responsible manner, the flood protection would be much, much larger.
The Cambridge government should be negotiating with all developers around the Alewife reservation. Cambridge should be building large flood protection tanks under all new construction at city expense rather than accomplishing further destruction of irreplaceable woodlands.
The Machine, in the Chronicle, has praised the destruction of acres of woodlands for meadow conversion. That author has spent 15 years yelling at private developers and claiming to be defending Alewife. The machine says not to look at the need for flood control which is only going be resolved by destruction of the government owned Alewife reservation unless flood control tanks are built. That Machine letter praised the first destruction of Alewife woods. That destruction was supposedly for flood protection. That destruction will only protect against the worst possible storm in a two year period.
So the Machine tells us to look at Don Quixote fights against private developers and ignore the destructiveness of non action by their friends in government.
The Machine celebrated when Rich MacKinnon dedicated that parking lot for conversion back to open space. The Machine did not mention Sheila’s zoning which MacKinnon gives credit for the conversion.
The Machine does tell people not to look at the destruction of publicly owned Alewife for “flood protection” meadow which that Machine “leader” has bragged about. The Machine tells people not to look at the fact that flood protection should instead be placed under new construction as Rich has done under his two projects, but on a much, much larger scale.
The Machine and its City Council are stalling until all possible places for responsible flood control have been built upon. Then there will be “no choice” but to create a total “meadow” where an irreplaceable woodlands now stands.
The editor of the Cambridge Chronicle stopped publishing my letters after I refused to delete a comment in a proposed letter stating that the leader of the fake protective group at Alewife was fighting to destroy Alewife. Even worse, I pointed her to a letter in the Cambridge Chronicle from this person in which the person bragged about the first stage of destruction by the City of Cambridge and friends.
So the Chronicle has repeatedly printed fake “protective” letters yelling about private development at Alewife and censored letters objecting to ongoing efforts at public destruction at Alewife.
This is a very clear change in policy. The Cambridge Chronicle used to publish the City destruction supporting puff pieces but also allowed responsible comments in response at Alewife and elsewhere.
Now the Cambridge Chronicle just publishes the con games with their false and distorted presentation of reality. This amounts to lies of omission.
The corrupt behavior by the front organization supporting destruction on the Charles River is another excellent example. Repeated puff pieces amounting to fraud because of the “love” expressed while silent on the destruction supported have been published while censoring reality.
When the previous editor left, he mentioned he was leaving because of differences between him and the publisher. Could the allowance of the advanced but very real campaigns of fraud without allowing responses by responsible people be the difference he resigned over?
Last Thursday, July 18, the Cambridge Chronicle published an extended oped cooing over the replacement of the parking lot between route 2 and Alewife Station by allowing it to return to nature.
I proposed the following letter to the editor.
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Editor
Cambridge Chronicle
You printed praise for the meadow at Alewife created from a parking lot between route 2 and Alewife Station. The way things are being manipulated, it looks like all of the publicly owned woodlands at Alewife could become meadows.
I wrote the zoning petition which Sheila Cook led and which the owner of the former parking lot, Richard MacKinnon, credits for the return of meadow in place of parking. You have recently reported on the second of MacKinnon’s projects south of Cambridge ParkDrive. MacKinnon’s projects are being built with flood protection under them, but, had the City of Cambridge been behaving in a responsible manner, the flood protection would be much, much larger.
The Cambridge government should be negotiating with all developers around the Alewife reservation. Cambridge should be building large flood protection tanks under all new construction at city expense rather than accomplishing further destruction of irreplaceable woodlands.
The Machine, in the Chronicle, has praised the destruction of acres of woodlands for meadow conversion. That author has spent 15 years yelling at private developers and claiming to be defending Alewife. The machine says not to look at the need for flood control which is only going be resolved by destruction of the government owned Alewife reservation unless flood control tanks are built. That Machine letter praised the first destruction of Alewife woods. That destruction was supposedly for flood protection. That destruction will only protect against the worst possible storm in a two year period.
So the Machine tells us to look at Don Quixote fights against private developers and ignore the destructiveness of non action by their friends in government.
The Machine celebrated when Rich MacKinnon dedicated that parking lot for conversion back to open space. The Machine did not mention Sheila’s zoning which MacKinnon gives credit for the conversion.
The Machine does tell people not to look at the destruction of publicly owned Alewife for “flood protection” meadow which that Machine “leader” has bragged about. The Machine tells people not to look at the fact that flood protection should instead be placed under new construction as Rich has done under his two projects, but on a much, much larger scale.
The Machine and its City Council are stalling until all possible places for responsible flood control have been built upon. Then there will be “no choice” but to create a total “meadow” where an irreplaceable woodlands now stands.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Massive Tree Destruction, heartless animal abuse, and other Bizarre Environmental Destruction justified by Bike Highway? Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA
1. Comment Received.
2. Response.
3. The totalitarian regime in Cambridge, MA, USA.
4. Supplement.
5. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Comment Received.
I commented on Cambridge and its friends proposal to destroy hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge and to create major environmental destruction through “underpasses” under the next three bridges which the Massachusetts Department on Transportation rightfully condemns.
I got the following response:
**************
Bob -
Have you ever ridden a bike on the bike paths on the Cambridge side of the Charles River (Mt. Auburn).
If you haven't, please do so.
2. Response.
I certainly have and "improving" the bike highway is no excuse for the hundreds of trees slated for destruction. The bike highway, like the "underpasses" is just a convenient con to get people on board who later will be shafted as convenient.
I have a strikingly impressive victory as a bike activist but I do not consider environmental destruction justified by outrageous highway construction.
An excellent example of programmed backstabbing is the irresponsible part of the Grand Junction bike highway. See my report with photos at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/destroyed-nesting-area-north-south.html.
For lack of room, I did not go into the real reasons for the route south of where the bike route would responsibly connect to Vassar Street. [Ed: The problem is with destructive construction under and south of Memorial Drive. The responsible route would turn before Memorial Drive, connect to Vassar Street, and connect to Memorial Drive, a very short distance along Vassar Street.]
First, and most immediate, of course, is yet another technique to kill off and abuse resident animals.
The long range reason, and it may no longer be a long range reason, is to move the Allston / Cambridge exit of the Mass. Pike to the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge to open that area up for relocating Harvard Medical School, etc.
The bike highway would be an excuse to widen the railroad underpass under Memorial Drive. The real reason is to hold the off ramp. The lie is that the bike highway which then be moved "regrettably" to connect to Vassar Street and then Memorial Drive by the shorter, more sensible route it should have taken in the first place. But a bunch of destructive hypocrites can please both Harvard and the people it is stabbing in the back.
The outrages inflicted with the lie of bike activism really have much more major reasons, not the least of which, of course, is welfare for contractors.
********** [in original]
Good question, thank you.
I will consider using the above as a blog / facebook / email post.
PS: I have commuted by bike from Cambridge to Waltham. I consider confining bikes to sidewalks just another abuse of the people the Machine lies it is benefitting, and an excellent example of another Machine related organization shafting those it lies it is trying to benefit.
3. The totalitarian regime in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Everything supported by Cambridge and its friends is presented as that which is politically correct, no matter how irresponsible.
And environmental destruction is hidden through lies of environmental sainthood, and a redefinition of environmentalism to restrict environmentalism to defending whatever the City of Cambridge does not feel like destroying.
And the really rotten stuff is done with maximum secrecy and corrupt tactics along with the usual non stop lying of “holier than thou.”
The destruction fought for on the Charles River has been and continues to be handled in exactly that way, showing a very clear knowledge of just how rotten their behavior is.
4. Supplement.
The real lie is when people, as the above, make a flat out one sided statement with the Holier than Thou in the background, while omitting massive environmental destruction which somebody who is Holier than Thou would mention.
5. 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.
**********
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; Cambridge’s definition is that environmentalists protect that which Cambridge does not feel like destroying; the Cambridge pols are oh, so pious using their secret, fraudulent definition; 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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
2. Response.
3. The totalitarian regime in Cambridge, MA, USA.
4. Supplement.
5. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Comment Received.
I commented on Cambridge and its friends proposal to destroy hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge and to create major environmental destruction through “underpasses” under the next three bridges which the Massachusetts Department on Transportation rightfully condemns.
I got the following response:
**************
Bob -
Have you ever ridden a bike on the bike paths on the Cambridge side of the Charles River (Mt. Auburn).
If you haven't, please do so.
2. Response.
I certainly have and "improving" the bike highway is no excuse for the hundreds of trees slated for destruction. The bike highway, like the "underpasses" is just a convenient con to get people on board who later will be shafted as convenient.
I have a strikingly impressive victory as a bike activist but I do not consider environmental destruction justified by outrageous highway construction.
An excellent example of programmed backstabbing is the irresponsible part of the Grand Junction bike highway. See my report with photos at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/destroyed-nesting-area-north-south.html.
For lack of room, I did not go into the real reasons for the route south of where the bike route would responsibly connect to Vassar Street. [Ed: The problem is with destructive construction under and south of Memorial Drive. The responsible route would turn before Memorial Drive, connect to Vassar Street, and connect to Memorial Drive, a very short distance along Vassar Street.]
First, and most immediate, of course, is yet another technique to kill off and abuse resident animals.
The long range reason, and it may no longer be a long range reason, is to move the Allston / Cambridge exit of the Mass. Pike to the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge to open that area up for relocating Harvard Medical School, etc.
The bike highway would be an excuse to widen the railroad underpass under Memorial Drive. The real reason is to hold the off ramp. The lie is that the bike highway which then be moved "regrettably" to connect to Vassar Street and then Memorial Drive by the shorter, more sensible route it should have taken in the first place. But a bunch of destructive hypocrites can please both Harvard and the people it is stabbing in the back.
The outrages inflicted with the lie of bike activism really have much more major reasons, not the least of which, of course, is welfare for contractors.
********** [in original]
Good question, thank you.
I will consider using the above as a blog / facebook / email post.
PS: I have commuted by bike from Cambridge to Waltham. I consider confining bikes to sidewalks just another abuse of the people the Machine lies it is benefitting, and an excellent example of another Machine related organization shafting those it lies it is trying to benefit.
3. The totalitarian regime in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Everything supported by Cambridge and its friends is presented as that which is politically correct, no matter how irresponsible.
And environmental destruction is hidden through lies of environmental sainthood, and a redefinition of environmentalism to restrict environmentalism to defending whatever the City of Cambridge does not feel like destroying.
And the really rotten stuff is done with maximum secrecy and corrupt tactics along with the usual non stop lying of “holier than thou.”
The destruction fought for on the Charles River has been and continues to be handled in exactly that way, showing a very clear knowledge of just how rotten their behavior is.
4. Supplement.
The real lie is when people, as the above, make a flat out one sided statement with the Holier than Thou in the background, while omitting massive environmental destruction which somebody who is Holier than Thou would mention.
5. 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.
**********
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; Cambridge’s definition is that environmentalists protect that which Cambridge does not feel like destroying; the Cambridge pols are oh, so pious using their secret, fraudulent definition; 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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Kendall / Longfellow, Cambridge, MA, USA, after July 18, 2013
1. Photo report, July 18, 2013
2. Overview: The environmentally destructive City of Cambridge, MA, USA
3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Photo report, July 18, 2013
Mishka provides the following photos.
This is getting to him and to us.
The two remaining trees of those marked for destruction.
Two killed on July 18, 2013.
Overview after the outrage on July 18, 2013.
The situation from before the outrage, June 27, 2013.
2. Overview: The environmentally destructive City of Cambridge, MA, USA
Cambridge, MA, USA, by all rights is an environmental pariah.
The biggest trouble with Cambridge’s destructiveness is that they do a lot of lying and that they have a massive organization which repeats their lies.
Additionally, the massive organization runs around passing on the lies to a lot of other groups.
So an environmental pariah, through a series of lies and repeats of lies is presented to the world, falsely, as an environmental saint.
And Cambridge corrupts state agencies with whom it works.
Cambridge is in the process of destroying the Alewife reservation. It has already destroyed acres there.
Cambridge has inflicted years of increasing destruction on its Fresh Pond Reservation.
Cambridge is preparing to destroy 22 excellent trees on the magnificent Cambridge Common, most because they are “blocking” the view.
Cambridge is in the process of massive destruction on the Charles River.
It has inflicted an environmental outrage on the Magazine Beach playing fields. Its plans called for a “lawn to the river,” so it walled off the lawn from the river with a massive wall of introduced bushes. It destroyed responsible grass which survived the better part of a century and replaced it with sickly stuff that requires poisons to survive. To keep the poisons out of the Charles, they destroyed part of the playing fields for drainage, drainage duplicated in the Longfellow Bridge outrage. The built part of a bike highway slated to destroy hundred of trees.
They have been deliberately starving the 32 year resident beautiful Charles River White Geese. They have increasingly destroyed the environment in the ghetto to which they have confined these beautiful animals, and Cambridge has a plan to increase the damage and to build a fence to separate it off from the adjacent formerly natural hillside. As much ground vegetation as they can get away with has been destroyed from the BU Bridge through the ghetto, through that hillside, to the BU Boat House.
Through blatantly corrupt tactics their agents obtained a fake vote to expand the destruction to the hill to the west of the playing fields and ti the wetlands beyond the hill, behind the swimming pool. Their agents are fighting to destroy the little guy’s parking lot needed for picnicking on that hill, picnicking which the agents glorify.
Working through agents, Cambridge has a bond authorization request in the Governor’s transportation budget to destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge on the Charles River.
Cambridge’s agent, the Charles River “Conservancy” ran around getting support for the destruction of those hundreds of trees lying that it was seeking support for “underpasses” under the next three bridges over the Charles River to the west. MassDOT opposed the “underpasses” as environmentally and historically destructive. And there was no mention to the “supporters” of the massive tree destruction.
The governor included $2 to $4 million in his bond authorization request for the “underpasses” and $24 million for associated “paths” bicycle highways which would destroy those hundreds of trees. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation previously sought Obama anti recession funding to destroy the trees, lying that they were all diseased. They filed papers with the Cambridge Conservation Commission providing the lie.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is inflicting outrageous destruction as part of the Longfellow Bridge renovation project. MassDOT destroyed an excellent grove of trees on the Cambridge end of the Longfellow Bridge above the Red Line rapid transit tunnel. The lie to explain this was that destruction was necessary as part of the project, to reroute inbound traffic to the outbound side of the river. But all the destruction did was allow a straight line between the sides. Responsible construction would have created a turn in the road without destroying these excellent trees.
The above report is on the MassDOT / Cambridge (they are always consulted) destruction of an excellent grove of trees abutting the Longfellow Bridge on the west side in Cambridge next to the ramp from Memorial Drive to the Boston Side of the bridge.
The first explanation of the destruction was that it was necessary to handle rainwater from the bridge. MassDOT does not like connecting to the street drainage system in place.
Then MassDot explained that the destruction was necessary for handicapped access. They are building a handicapped overpass in Boston and moving Cambridge trees to beautify Boston. Then MassDOT blamed the destruction on those objecting. We had a duty to keep them from this outrage.
MassDOT has been corrupted by a reprehensible City of Cambridge, and the outrage has extended to Governor Patrick. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation is a long standing destructive bedfellow of the City of Cambridge.
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.
**********
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; Cambridge’s definition is that environmentalists protect that which Cambridge does not feel like destroying; the Cambridge pols are oh, so pious using their secret, fraudulent definition; 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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
2. Overview: The environmentally destructive City of Cambridge, MA, USA
3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Photo report, July 18, 2013
Mishka provides the following photos.
This is getting to him and to us.
The two remaining trees of those marked for destruction.
Two killed on July 18, 2013.
Overview after the outrage on July 18, 2013.
The situation from before the outrage, June 27, 2013.
2. Overview: The environmentally destructive City of Cambridge, MA, USA
Cambridge, MA, USA, by all rights is an environmental pariah.
The biggest trouble with Cambridge’s destructiveness is that they do a lot of lying and that they have a massive organization which repeats their lies.
Additionally, the massive organization runs around passing on the lies to a lot of other groups.
So an environmental pariah, through a series of lies and repeats of lies is presented to the world, falsely, as an environmental saint.
And Cambridge corrupts state agencies with whom it works.
Cambridge is in the process of destroying the Alewife reservation. It has already destroyed acres there.
Cambridge has inflicted years of increasing destruction on its Fresh Pond Reservation.
Cambridge is preparing to destroy 22 excellent trees on the magnificent Cambridge Common, most because they are “blocking” the view.
Cambridge is in the process of massive destruction on the Charles River.
It has inflicted an environmental outrage on the Magazine Beach playing fields. Its plans called for a “lawn to the river,” so it walled off the lawn from the river with a massive wall of introduced bushes. It destroyed responsible grass which survived the better part of a century and replaced it with sickly stuff that requires poisons to survive. To keep the poisons out of the Charles, they destroyed part of the playing fields for drainage, drainage duplicated in the Longfellow Bridge outrage. The built part of a bike highway slated to destroy hundred of trees.
They have been deliberately starving the 32 year resident beautiful Charles River White Geese. They have increasingly destroyed the environment in the ghetto to which they have confined these beautiful animals, and Cambridge has a plan to increase the damage and to build a fence to separate it off from the adjacent formerly natural hillside. As much ground vegetation as they can get away with has been destroyed from the BU Bridge through the ghetto, through that hillside, to the BU Boat House.
Through blatantly corrupt tactics their agents obtained a fake vote to expand the destruction to the hill to the west of the playing fields and ti the wetlands beyond the hill, behind the swimming pool. Their agents are fighting to destroy the little guy’s parking lot needed for picnicking on that hill, picnicking which the agents glorify.
Working through agents, Cambridge has a bond authorization request in the Governor’s transportation budget to destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge on the Charles River.
Cambridge’s agent, the Charles River “Conservancy” ran around getting support for the destruction of those hundreds of trees lying that it was seeking support for “underpasses” under the next three bridges over the Charles River to the west. MassDOT opposed the “underpasses” as environmentally and historically destructive. And there was no mention to the “supporters” of the massive tree destruction.
The governor included $2 to $4 million in his bond authorization request for the “underpasses” and $24 million for associated “paths” bicycle highways which would destroy those hundreds of trees. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation previously sought Obama anti recession funding to destroy the trees, lying that they were all diseased. They filed papers with the Cambridge Conservation Commission providing the lie.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is inflicting outrageous destruction as part of the Longfellow Bridge renovation project. MassDOT destroyed an excellent grove of trees on the Cambridge end of the Longfellow Bridge above the Red Line rapid transit tunnel. The lie to explain this was that destruction was necessary as part of the project, to reroute inbound traffic to the outbound side of the river. But all the destruction did was allow a straight line between the sides. Responsible construction would have created a turn in the road without destroying these excellent trees.
The above report is on the MassDOT / Cambridge (they are always consulted) destruction of an excellent grove of trees abutting the Longfellow Bridge on the west side in Cambridge next to the ramp from Memorial Drive to the Boston Side of the bridge.
The first explanation of the destruction was that it was necessary to handle rainwater from the bridge. MassDOT does not like connecting to the street drainage system in place.
Then MassDot explained that the destruction was necessary for handicapped access. They are building a handicapped overpass in Boston and moving Cambridge trees to beautify Boston. Then MassDOT blamed the destruction on those objecting. We had a duty to keep them from this outrage.
MassDOT has been corrupted by a reprehensible City of Cambridge, and the outrage has extended to Governor Patrick. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation is a long standing destructive bedfellow of the City of Cambridge.
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.
**********
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; Cambridge’s definition is that environmentalists protect that which Cambridge does not feel like destroying; the Cambridge pols are oh, so pious using their secret, fraudulent definition; 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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Bad News, Anderson Bridge — They killed four today — and the hundreds on Memorial Drive?
1. Report.
2. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Report.
Mishka Reports [editor's wording]:
Today, Governor Patrick’s people killed four of the six trees Patrick and his people had threatened to kill as part of his bizarre plans for environmental destruction on and next to Memorial Drive in Cambridge.
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These are part of mass destruction of an excellent grove for which Patrick’s people provided three belligerently bizarre “explanations.”
The rest of this excellent grove is being moved to beautify Boston. Other trees will be destroyed later.
Patrick and his people clearly fit with the Cambridge Machine and the destructive woman from the Charles River “Conservancy” who is the biggest cheerleader for destruction of trees on Memorial Drive.
Still possibly pending is Governor Patrick’s seeking of $24 million in funding to destroy hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive between the Anderson and BU Bridges.
The flat out lie there is “underpasses” under the next three bridges which the Massachusetts Department of Transportation does not want. Patrick sought $4 million in bond authorization for the “underpasses” and $24 million for the associated “paths,” the lie being that the associated “paths” destroy HUNDREDS of excellent trees.
The next step in destruction was fought for by the corrupt practices of the Cambridge Machine as they lie that they are loving Magazine Beach.
One thing is certain, however, with Patrick destroying the environment, he is certain to get the endorsement of the Cambridge Machine and of its controlled Boston Sierra Club.
They will loudly and falsely proclaim him “holier than thou.”
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.
**********
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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
2. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Report.
Mishka Reports [editor's wording]:
Today, Governor Patrick’s people killed four of the six trees Patrick and his people had threatened to kill as part of his bizarre plans for environmental destruction on and next to Memorial Drive in Cambridge.
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These are part of mass destruction of an excellent grove for which Patrick’s people provided three belligerently bizarre “explanations.”
The rest of this excellent grove is being moved to beautify Boston. Other trees will be destroyed later.
Patrick and his people clearly fit with the Cambridge Machine and the destructive woman from the Charles River “Conservancy” who is the biggest cheerleader for destruction of trees on Memorial Drive.
Still possibly pending is Governor Patrick’s seeking of $24 million in funding to destroy hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive between the Anderson and BU Bridges.
The flat out lie there is “underpasses” under the next three bridges which the Massachusetts Department of Transportation does not want. Patrick sought $4 million in bond authorization for the “underpasses” and $24 million for the associated “paths,” the lie being that the associated “paths” destroy HUNDREDS of excellent trees.
The next step in destruction was fought for by the corrupt practices of the Cambridge Machine as they lie that they are loving Magazine Beach.
One thing is certain, however, with Patrick destroying the environment, he is certain to get the endorsement of the Cambridge Machine and of its controlled Boston Sierra Club.
They will loudly and falsely proclaim him “holier than thou.”
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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
Negative DCR reports in the News, What Else is New?
1. Summary.
2. Vote pending in the legislature. Massive Destruction, fraudulent description.
3. The destroyed nesting area.
4. Magazine Beach.
5. Summary.
6. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Summary.
The Department of Conservation and Recreation is in the news because of mismanagement of its property condemned by a state official.
That is no surprise.
The fake group the Cambridge Machine has created on the Charles River with its non stop lies of loving Magazine Beach is specifically designed to hide the outrages and protect a really rotten friend of Cambridge from well deserved condemnation.
Nothing has been destroyed in the last day at Longfellow - Kendall. I will do a little more communication of the rot in this agency and its friends.
2. Vote pending in the legislature. Massive Destruction, fraudulent description.
Governor Patrick included in his budget destruction of hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive in Cambridge between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge on the Charles River.
This destruction fraudulently got a lot of approving signatures under the lie of “underpasses” under the next three bridges to the west.
The lying description is paths associated with those underpasses. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation, responsible for those bridges, has clearly rejected the underpasses, loudly condemning the environmental destruction.
The head of the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” has quietly reported continued efforts in favor of her “underpasses.” The actual “underpasses” run bond authorization of $2 million or $4 million. The “paths” (bike highways) associated with those “underpasses” run $24 million. Those underpasses are terrible. The paths run six times money with their destruction of hundreds of trees.
So, in the usual lies we are faced with in these ongoing outrages, the $24 million is not mentioned, only the $2 million or $4 million.
The trees being destroyed between the Longfellow Bridge and the point where Memorial Drive splits are truly massive.
The trees in the background in the photos I have been using of the Longfellow on ramp grove give a feel for the outrage.
Before destruction.
First destruction.
The leader of the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” has publicly cooed at this destruction.
The destruction in the proposed bond authorization includes a magnificent 104 tree grove at the Memorial Drive split, not as large as the trees to its east, but a magnificent grove. Governor Patrick’s bond authorization would destroy more than 80 of these 104 trees.
The DCR previously tried to get Obama anti-recession money to destroy the hundreds of trees Governor Patrick is now targeting for destruction. The DCR lied that all the targeted trees were sick. The lie was proven in their filing with the Cambridge Conservation Commission.
3. The destroyed nesting area.
The destroyed nesting area, with the consent of the DCR, was used for parking for months of railroad repair with parking readily available a few hundred feet away next to Memorial Drive overpass.
The DCR’s goal is to kill off all animals on the Charles River Basin. This is in their secret definition of “parkland.”
They are not doing it directly. That is would make the lies from the Cambridge Machine of the DCR’s sanctity more difficult.
So they sneak destructive attacks into whatever they can. Over the years, they have destroyed almost all of the ground vegetation between the BU Bridge and the BU Boathouse to the east of the Destroyed Nesting Area. The Cambridge City Council has a plan to fence off the connection between the Destroyed Nesting area the devegetated hillside between the Grand Junction railroad tracks and that boathouse.
The Cambridge Conservation Commission limited much of the latest damage after the fact. My praise for the CCC has been censored by the house organ Cambridge Chronicle.
Undergrowth near the tracks in the DNA was even more devastated by the parking lot use.
Here are some photos of the mess from June 23.
Here are photos taken on July 14 after the mess was cleaned up. Nature’s attempts to heal have been destroyed. The scraps in the photos above were destruction aimed at saplings. Even the saplings are gone. The mass dumping of crushed stone now dominates the area of worst vegetation destruction by the DCR and its friends over a numbers of years.
The last photo is of a plastic barrier I assume the DCR lies is "native." It fits their REAL definition of "native." It cost money and they planted it. This is the remnants of the barrier around the BU Bridge construction. That plastic barrier has in no way been removed by the DCR.
Leaving plastic in an environmentally sensitive location exactly fits the rottenness of the DCR and belies the nonstop holiness lies of the Cambridge Machine.
4. Magazine Beach.
I have gone on long enough for now. I will repeat some of prior reports, probably in the coming days. Corruption, corruption, corruption.
5. Summary.
It is always a relief to get away from the rotten situation in Cambridge, MA, USA, and see normal people reacting to the rottenness of the actors in question, rather than listen to the hypocrites of the Cambridge Machine lie of the holiness of very unholy characters.
The outrage on the Charles River started with a contract lacking proper legalities with Boston University under which Boston University accomplished the first destruction. Boston University lied for six months that they did not do it. Boston University finally bragged of the destruction after being condemned by the Cambridge Conservation Commission for their destruction. Their destruction started during the day prior to a Cambridge Conservation Commission hearing.
That destruction included the stairs which should have been used by the railroad workers to park next to Memorial Drive, and included the opening to the destroyed nesting area which is now blocked for use by the Charles River White Geese to get some food on their own in place of the starvation being inflicted by the DCR and Cambridge.
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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
2. Vote pending in the legislature. Massive Destruction, fraudulent description.
3. The destroyed nesting area.
4. Magazine Beach.
5. Summary.
6. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Summary.
The Department of Conservation and Recreation is in the news because of mismanagement of its property condemned by a state official.
That is no surprise.
The fake group the Cambridge Machine has created on the Charles River with its non stop lies of loving Magazine Beach is specifically designed to hide the outrages and protect a really rotten friend of Cambridge from well deserved condemnation.
Nothing has been destroyed in the last day at Longfellow - Kendall. I will do a little more communication of the rot in this agency and its friends.
2. Vote pending in the legislature. Massive Destruction, fraudulent description.
Governor Patrick included in his budget destruction of hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive in Cambridge between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge on the Charles River.
This destruction fraudulently got a lot of approving signatures under the lie of “underpasses” under the next three bridges to the west.
The lying description is paths associated with those underpasses. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation, responsible for those bridges, has clearly rejected the underpasses, loudly condemning the environmental destruction.
The head of the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” has quietly reported continued efforts in favor of her “underpasses.” The actual “underpasses” run bond authorization of $2 million or $4 million. The “paths” (bike highways) associated with those “underpasses” run $24 million. Those underpasses are terrible. The paths run six times money with their destruction of hundreds of trees.
So, in the usual lies we are faced with in these ongoing outrages, the $24 million is not mentioned, only the $2 million or $4 million.
The trees being destroyed between the Longfellow Bridge and the point where Memorial Drive splits are truly massive.
The trees in the background in the photos I have been using of the Longfellow on ramp grove give a feel for the outrage.
Before destruction.
First destruction.
The leader of the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” has publicly cooed at this destruction.
The destruction in the proposed bond authorization includes a magnificent 104 tree grove at the Memorial Drive split, not as large as the trees to its east, but a magnificent grove. Governor Patrick’s bond authorization would destroy more than 80 of these 104 trees.
The DCR previously tried to get Obama anti-recession money to destroy the hundreds of trees Governor Patrick is now targeting for destruction. The DCR lied that all the targeted trees were sick. The lie was proven in their filing with the Cambridge Conservation Commission.
3. The destroyed nesting area.
The destroyed nesting area, with the consent of the DCR, was used for parking for months of railroad repair with parking readily available a few hundred feet away next to Memorial Drive overpass.
The DCR’s goal is to kill off all animals on the Charles River Basin. This is in their secret definition of “parkland.”
They are not doing it directly. That is would make the lies from the Cambridge Machine of the DCR’s sanctity more difficult.
So they sneak destructive attacks into whatever they can. Over the years, they have destroyed almost all of the ground vegetation between the BU Bridge and the BU Boathouse to the east of the Destroyed Nesting Area. The Cambridge City Council has a plan to fence off the connection between the Destroyed Nesting area the devegetated hillside between the Grand Junction railroad tracks and that boathouse.
The Cambridge Conservation Commission limited much of the latest damage after the fact. My praise for the CCC has been censored by the house organ Cambridge Chronicle.
Undergrowth near the tracks in the DNA was even more devastated by the parking lot use.
Here are some photos of the mess from June 23.
Here are photos taken on July 14 after the mess was cleaned up. Nature’s attempts to heal have been destroyed. The scraps in the photos above were destruction aimed at saplings. Even the saplings are gone. The mass dumping of crushed stone now dominates the area of worst vegetation destruction by the DCR and its friends over a numbers of years.
The last photo is of a plastic barrier I assume the DCR lies is "native." It fits their REAL definition of "native." It cost money and they planted it. This is the remnants of the barrier around the BU Bridge construction. That plastic barrier has in no way been removed by the DCR.
Leaving plastic in an environmentally sensitive location exactly fits the rottenness of the DCR and belies the nonstop holiness lies of the Cambridge Machine.
4. Magazine Beach.
I have gone on long enough for now. I will repeat some of prior reports, probably in the coming days. Corruption, corruption, corruption.
5. Summary.
It is always a relief to get away from the rotten situation in Cambridge, MA, USA, and see normal people reacting to the rottenness of the actors in question, rather than listen to the hypocrites of the Cambridge Machine lie of the holiness of very unholy characters.
The outrage on the Charles River started with a contract lacking proper legalities with Boston University under which Boston University accomplished the first destruction. Boston University lied for six months that they did not do it. Boston University finally bragged of the destruction after being condemned by the Cambridge Conservation Commission for their destruction. Their destruction started during the day prior to a Cambridge Conservation Commission hearing.
That destruction included the stairs which should have been used by the railroad workers to park next to Memorial Drive, and included the opening to the destroyed nesting area which is now blocked for use by the Charles River White Geese to get some food on their own in place of the starvation being inflicted by the DCR and Cambridge.
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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Longfellow / Kendall: The first grove was destroyed to get a straight line.
1. Mass. Engineers Like Straight Lines.
A. Destruction pending.
B. The record, total lack of value in prior destruction in Kendall Square.
2. Photos.
3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Mass. Engineers Like Straight Lines.
A. Destruction pending.
We have been following the imminent and ongoing outrage on the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, for many years.
We are at a crucial turning point. The legislature, apparently tomorrow, July 17, 2013, will vote on the destruction of hundreds of trees on the abutting Memorial Drive between the Longfellow Bridge and the BU Bridge.
The lie of explanation is “underpasses”. Underpasses rejected by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) for the next three bridges over the Charles were pitched without telling the “supporters” that the “underpasses” were used as a con game to get unknowing support for destruction of these hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.
MassDOT has started destruction of the excellent grove of trees which connects Memorial Drive to the Longfellow Bridge. They have provided three BIZARRE “explanations.” This destruction has also occupied many posts. The most recent is at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/major-destruction-action-on-charles.html.
The woman key in the fight for destruction of those hundreds of trees has publicly cooed over the commencement of destruction of this excellent grove of trees.
Completion of destruction is imminent.
B. The record, total lack of value in prior destruction in Kendall Square.
MassDOT has already destroyed an excellent grove on top of the Red Line subway line which crosses the Charles River on the Longfellow Bridge and then goes underground under Kendall Square. This excellent grove was at the Longfellow Bridge end of the tunnel under Kendall Square.
The lie here was that destruction of this excellent grove was “necessary” to reroute traffic as part of the project. Traffic going from Boston to Cambridge is being prohibited for the duration of the project. For the first part of the project, traffic going from Cambridge to Boston will be rerouted from the Boston bound side to the Cambridge bound side.
And, according to MassDOT, destruction of that excellent grove was “necessary.”
We are now able to see how “necessary” that destruction is.
MassDOT has created a straight line for that traffic through the destroyed grove.
All MassDOT had to do was pivot the line to the east. That would create a very slight turn as traffic entered the Boston bound side. There are traffic turns all over the place.
The engineers did not have the decency, the honor, the respect for our world to create that turn and refrain from destroying that excellent grove.
This is global warming.
This is the reprehensible Cambridge, MA. This is the reprehensible Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
This fits in exactly with the planned outrages at that excellent grove on the on ramp and between the Longfellow Bridge and the BU Bridge.
Trees are being destroyed because we have terrible governments in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of Cambridge, MA, USA.
Trees are being destroyed because Cambridge has a belligerently corrupt Cambridge Machine which can be relied upon to run around calling its destructive state and local governments “holier than thou” no matter how much of a lie that is.
No other reason.
They have accomplished major, irresponsible destruction, but a lot of very important trees have not been destroyed.
Contacts are below in section. 3.
2. Photos.
A. The grove on the on ramp.
Before destruction.
After removal of the first two trees.
B. The grove above the red line.
(1) Lovely Pines, June 18.
(2) Lovely Pines Nearby, June 18.
(3) Killed Pines, June 19.
(4) Piled construction junk where the nice pines were, July 15.
(5) Larger View, piled construction junk where the nice pines were, July 15.
Note: You cannot see it, but the next grove they want to needlessly destroy is to the right of the cars in the road.
(6) Even larger view, piled construction where the nice pines were, July 15.
(7) View from above, July 15.
The opening to the immediate left is the one shown in the preceding photo.
The opening behind it is Main Street, Cambridge, MA.
In the middle is the future crossover, now occupied by jersey barriers. No responsible reason whatsoever to destroy that excellent grove of trees. Just create a slight turn, if you are responsible.
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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
A. Destruction pending.
B. The record, total lack of value in prior destruction in Kendall Square.
2. Photos.
3. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Mass. Engineers Like Straight Lines.
A. Destruction pending.
We have been following the imminent and ongoing outrage on the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, for many years.
We are at a crucial turning point. The legislature, apparently tomorrow, July 17, 2013, will vote on the destruction of hundreds of trees on the abutting Memorial Drive between the Longfellow Bridge and the BU Bridge.
The lie of explanation is “underpasses”. Underpasses rejected by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) for the next three bridges over the Charles were pitched without telling the “supporters” that the “underpasses” were used as a con game to get unknowing support for destruction of these hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.
MassDOT has started destruction of the excellent grove of trees which connects Memorial Drive to the Longfellow Bridge. They have provided three BIZARRE “explanations.” This destruction has also occupied many posts. The most recent is at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/major-destruction-action-on-charles.html.
The woman key in the fight for destruction of those hundreds of trees has publicly cooed over the commencement of destruction of this excellent grove of trees.
Completion of destruction is imminent.
B. The record, total lack of value in prior destruction in Kendall Square.
MassDOT has already destroyed an excellent grove on top of the Red Line subway line which crosses the Charles River on the Longfellow Bridge and then goes underground under Kendall Square. This excellent grove was at the Longfellow Bridge end of the tunnel under Kendall Square.
The lie here was that destruction of this excellent grove was “necessary” to reroute traffic as part of the project. Traffic going from Boston to Cambridge is being prohibited for the duration of the project. For the first part of the project, traffic going from Cambridge to Boston will be rerouted from the Boston bound side to the Cambridge bound side.
And, according to MassDOT, destruction of that excellent grove was “necessary.”
We are now able to see how “necessary” that destruction is.
MassDOT has created a straight line for that traffic through the destroyed grove.
All MassDOT had to do was pivot the line to the east. That would create a very slight turn as traffic entered the Boston bound side. There are traffic turns all over the place.
The engineers did not have the decency, the honor, the respect for our world to create that turn and refrain from destroying that excellent grove.
This is global warming.
This is the reprehensible Cambridge, MA. This is the reprehensible Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
This fits in exactly with the planned outrages at that excellent grove on the on ramp and between the Longfellow Bridge and the BU Bridge.
Trees are being destroyed because we have terrible governments in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of Cambridge, MA, USA.
Trees are being destroyed because Cambridge has a belligerently corrupt Cambridge Machine which can be relied upon to run around calling its destructive state and local governments “holier than thou” no matter how much of a lie that is.
No other reason.
They have accomplished major, irresponsible destruction, but a lot of very important trees have not been destroyed.
Contacts are below in section. 3.
2. Photos.
A. The grove on the on ramp.
Before destruction.
After removal of the first two trees.
B. The grove above the red line.
(1) Lovely Pines, June 18.
(2) Lovely Pines Nearby, June 18.
(3) Killed Pines, June 19.
(4) Piled construction junk where the nice pines were, July 15.
(5) Larger View, piled construction junk where the nice pines were, July 15.
Note: You cannot see it, but the next grove they want to needlessly destroy is to the right of the cars in the road.
(6) Even larger view, piled construction where the nice pines were, July 15.
(7) View from above, July 15.
The opening to the immediate left is the one shown in the preceding photo.
The opening behind it is Main Street, Cambridge, MA.
In the middle is the future crossover, now occupied by jersey barriers. No responsible reason whatsoever to destroy that excellent grove of trees. Just create a slight turn, if you are responsible.
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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Major destruction action on Charles River, Cambridge, MA NOW
1. Introduction.
2. Longfellow Bridge.
3. The flat out corruption of “Underpasses.”
4. Chortling by the reprehensible “conservancy.”
5. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Introduction.
Photo before.
Photo after first two attacks.
Compare the photos closely. The first photo has three excellent trees to the left of the opening. The second has one.
The supposed explanations are consistently nonsense.
Destruction could resume today, July 15, 2013.
Trees in the background could be could be part of the hundreds which could be destroyed by deceptive fine print in the Governor’s Budget, fine print which is the result of a campaign of lies and corruption which have continued very much unabated. Bond authorization for the destruction of hundreds of trees destroyed with explained by flat out lies.
It is horrible to be constantly exposed to belligerent corruption by people who seek the votes of environmentalists.
2. Longfellow Bridge.
This excellent grove is in Cambridge, MA to the east of the Longfellow Bridge connecting Beacon Hill in Boston, MA, and Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. The grove lines the ramp from Memorial Drive to the Boston bound side of the Bridge.
The real explanation for this outrage seems to be that destruction is being accomplished by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation as an engineers’ toy. They are rebuilding the Longfellow Bridge and want to drain rain on the bridge in a fancy manner. Now would it not be beautiful to have “natural” drainage instead of messy street run off sewers?
That is the total real explanation for the destruction.
Irresponsible and stupid.
The “explanations” have gotten cuter.
The destruction has been explained as assisting the handicapped. The trees they are not destroying are being moved from this excellent, well established grove in Cambridge to beautify a new overpass with handicapped capability. Outrageously irresponsible, but Cambridge has a very rotten Machine which does a lot of lying and Boston has responsible activists.
MassDOT has also indulged in nonsense which lies about impact on the sewer system. Massachusetts sewers are going from combined sewer systems in which street runoff is combined with human waste to separating the two. You cannot put street runoff into the system managing human waste. The fact that street runoff belongs in the street run off sewers is not mentioned.
3. The flat out corruption of “Underpasses.”
A falsely named group which runs around lying that it is a “conservancy” has gotten a lot of people to support “underpasses” for three bridges west of the BU Bridge. They lie by omission of the fact that their package includes destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.
The “underpasses” themselves are so irresponsible that MassDOT, which would be responsible for them, rejects them outright.
The governor’s budget includes $4 million for the “underpasses” in spite of the MassDOT opposition. Much more importantly, it includes $24 for “paths” associated with the “underpasses”, the bike highway which would destroy all those trees.
The fake “neighborhood association” in Cambridgeport brilliantly demonstrated the corruption of the Cambridge Machine by its corrupt creation of a “vote” supporting the portion of the bike highway which is part of the doubling of environmental damage at Magazine Beach. They could not get a supporting vote in their January 2013 meeting, so they postponed action to their February meeting. They conducted their February meeting on April 23, 2013, driving away the folks who showed up in January. After devoting the entire January meeting to the topic, the discussion was restricted to the last ten minutes of the April 23, 2013 meeting. A very complicated and misleading motion was passed out at the beginning of the last ten minutes, then was “voted on” by a group consisting of robots and of people who could care less about the Charles River.
This corruption is normal in Cambridge, MA, and is entirely consistent with the very serious lies of omission through which “support” for an irresponsible “underpasses” proposal has been converted through flat out corruption into “support” for the destruction of hundreds of trees between the Longfellow and BU Bridge.
Funds were previously sought by the Department of Conservation and Recreation through Obama moneys. The lie that time was that all these excellent trees were diseased. That lie was proven by their filing with the Conservation Commission of the City of Cambridge.
Another common lie from these people has been the non stop lie of “no intention” to harm the Charles River White Geese. Their secret definition of “harm” does not include deliberate starvation or repeated outrages such as the use of their nesting area for parking with dumping of crushed stone in the middle. Then we go into the corrupt vote just taken by the Cambridge Machine.
The vote in the legislature has been reported as scheduled for Wednesday, July 17.
4. Chortling by the reprehensible “conservancy.”
The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” is the front organization fighting for this outrage. It has major funding from Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, plus many other entities who would benefit from environmental destruction, while, of course, lying that they are holier than thou. I have gone over its funding in prior reports.
The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” has announced it is still fighting for its falsely named “underpasses” proposal through discussions with legislators.
The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” has cooed at the first destruction of the grove next to the Longfellow Bridge.
Corruption, corruption, corruption. Business as usual by those fighting for destruction on the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, USA.
5. 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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
2. Longfellow Bridge.
3. The flat out corruption of “Underpasses.”
4. Chortling by the reprehensible “conservancy.”
5. Contacts, Miscellaneous.
1. Introduction.
Photo before.
Photo after first two attacks.
Compare the photos closely. The first photo has three excellent trees to the left of the opening. The second has one.
The supposed explanations are consistently nonsense.
Destruction could resume today, July 15, 2013.
Trees in the background could be could be part of the hundreds which could be destroyed by deceptive fine print in the Governor’s Budget, fine print which is the result of a campaign of lies and corruption which have continued very much unabated. Bond authorization for the destruction of hundreds of trees destroyed with explained by flat out lies.
It is horrible to be constantly exposed to belligerent corruption by people who seek the votes of environmentalists.
2. Longfellow Bridge.
This excellent grove is in Cambridge, MA to the east of the Longfellow Bridge connecting Beacon Hill in Boston, MA, and Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. The grove lines the ramp from Memorial Drive to the Boston bound side of the Bridge.
The real explanation for this outrage seems to be that destruction is being accomplished by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation as an engineers’ toy. They are rebuilding the Longfellow Bridge and want to drain rain on the bridge in a fancy manner. Now would it not be beautiful to have “natural” drainage instead of messy street run off sewers?
That is the total real explanation for the destruction.
Irresponsible and stupid.
The “explanations” have gotten cuter.
The destruction has been explained as assisting the handicapped. The trees they are not destroying are being moved from this excellent, well established grove in Cambridge to beautify a new overpass with handicapped capability. Outrageously irresponsible, but Cambridge has a very rotten Machine which does a lot of lying and Boston has responsible activists.
MassDOT has also indulged in nonsense which lies about impact on the sewer system. Massachusetts sewers are going from combined sewer systems in which street runoff is combined with human waste to separating the two. You cannot put street runoff into the system managing human waste. The fact that street runoff belongs in the street run off sewers is not mentioned.
3. The flat out corruption of “Underpasses.”
A falsely named group which runs around lying that it is a “conservancy” has gotten a lot of people to support “underpasses” for three bridges west of the BU Bridge. They lie by omission of the fact that their package includes destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.
The “underpasses” themselves are so irresponsible that MassDOT, which would be responsible for them, rejects them outright.
The governor’s budget includes $4 million for the “underpasses” in spite of the MassDOT opposition. Much more importantly, it includes $24 for “paths” associated with the “underpasses”, the bike highway which would destroy all those trees.
The fake “neighborhood association” in Cambridgeport brilliantly demonstrated the corruption of the Cambridge Machine by its corrupt creation of a “vote” supporting the portion of the bike highway which is part of the doubling of environmental damage at Magazine Beach. They could not get a supporting vote in their January 2013 meeting, so they postponed action to their February meeting. They conducted their February meeting on April 23, 2013, driving away the folks who showed up in January. After devoting the entire January meeting to the topic, the discussion was restricted to the last ten minutes of the April 23, 2013 meeting. A very complicated and misleading motion was passed out at the beginning of the last ten minutes, then was “voted on” by a group consisting of robots and of people who could care less about the Charles River.
This corruption is normal in Cambridge, MA, and is entirely consistent with the very serious lies of omission through which “support” for an irresponsible “underpasses” proposal has been converted through flat out corruption into “support” for the destruction of hundreds of trees between the Longfellow and BU Bridge.
Funds were previously sought by the Department of Conservation and Recreation through Obama moneys. The lie that time was that all these excellent trees were diseased. That lie was proven by their filing with the Conservation Commission of the City of Cambridge.
Another common lie from these people has been the non stop lie of “no intention” to harm the Charles River White Geese. Their secret definition of “harm” does not include deliberate starvation or repeated outrages such as the use of their nesting area for parking with dumping of crushed stone in the middle. Then we go into the corrupt vote just taken by the Cambridge Machine.
The vote in the legislature has been reported as scheduled for Wednesday, July 17.
4. Chortling by the reprehensible “conservancy.”
The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” is the front organization fighting for this outrage. It has major funding from Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, plus many other entities who would benefit from environmental destruction, while, of course, lying that they are holier than thou. I have gone over its funding in prior reports.
The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” has announced it is still fighting for its falsely named “underpasses” proposal through discussions with legislators.
The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” has cooed at the first destruction of the grove next to the Longfellow Bridge.
Corruption, corruption, corruption. Business as usual by those fighting for destruction on the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, USA.
5. 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.
**********
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 try to wiggle around.
Turn your back on them and walk away fast.
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