Charles River: Green Line A for Olympics, map with options

Charles River: Green Line A for Olympics, map with options.

1. Introductory.
2. Analysis.
a. Preferred alternative.
(1) Boston University Central stop on Green Line B..
(2) The rest of the preferred package.
b. Other possibilities.
(1) General.
(2) Differences between preferred and alternative routes.
(a) Southern End.
(b) Harvard Medical School site, and general considerations.
(c) Cambridge Street to Western Avenue.
(d) Western Avenue to the Charles River.
(e) Charles River and north.
3. The prior reports:



1. Introductory.

I have been presenting prior reports in this series at the beginning.  They are getting to be too much, so now they are at the end.

In my last report, I passed on a good comment from a friend that there are alternatives to what I have been presenting for possible rapid transit supporting the Olympics in the Allston neighborhood of Boston.  I commented that it was an excellent suggestion, so I have gone forward with an expanded package.

First of all, thanks to the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Maps Department, for printing me a relevant map of North Allston including a bit of Cambridge.  It is appreciated.  I have cropped that map and marked it up.

There are two types of markings on the map.

The added solid, dark blue line is the route I think makes the most sense.

The broken, red, lines are other alternatives which also make sense, but which I think are not as good as the solid dark blue line.

The map includes the current situation and the massive amount of highway spaghetti in the current location of Harvard’s intended Medical School, a location which strikes me as highly appropriate for a lot more uses than are currently on the table.

Here is my first attempt.  I STRONGLY WOULD APPRECIATE suggested changes to the red broken lines.  I have deeply thought out the route which I consider the best.  I have done much less thought on the other routes.

The map.

2. Analysis.

a. Preferred alternative.

(1) Boston University Central stop on Green Line B..

I am presenting one more stop on the preferred alternative, and renumbering accordingly.

The Green Line A would run off the MBTA’s existing rapid transit Green Line B by switches inserted in Green Line B’s tracks just west of the BU Bridge.  I provided photos in the second report.

It would connect to Downtown Boston on the Green Line B tracks and into the system.

There is one improvement that should be made to the existing Green Line B close to Green Line A for the Olympics that makes sense in addition to creating the Green Line A spur.

The change would be to move the Boston University Central stop to a location just a block off the BU Bridge.  This stop is currently really too close to Boston University East stop, and the move makes sense on its own.  The move would greatly ease public access to events at the Magazine Beach playing fields on the other side of the BU Bridge and would do negligible harm to the existing situation.

The map shows part of the label for the existing stop.  It is that close.

The Magazine Beach playing fields are a location where the Olympics folks are a breath of fresh air in contrast to the vile situation with regard to Cambridge and its filth.

Cambridge and company are deliberately starving the 34 year resident Charles River White Geese by walling off their food at the Magazine Beach Playing Fields with a bizarre wall of invasive introduced vegetation which is in place as a result of a bunch of lies and is being kept in place by the gross malfeasance of a whole bunch of vile people.

This is the only part of the Charles River basin where bordering vegetation is NOT chopped down twice a year.

The Olympics folks want to tear down that bizarre wall.  They are normal, decent, human beings.  They are a tremendous improvement over the vile situation with Cambridge and its buddies.

(2) The rest of the preferred package.

I have gone over this in detail.  On this map, I have combined a bunch of maps which are included in the prior reports, especially the first report.

I prefer this route because it provides much better support for the Olympics and the Allston neighborhood than the alternatives.

b. Other possibilities.

(1) General.

Basically, it is impossible for me to say much negative about the other possibilities.  These are ideas that I started out with.  After a great deal of thought, I consider these possibilities good, but not the best way to go.

(2) Differences between preferred and alternative routes.

(a) Southern End.

Both the preferred and the alternative route are the same route running from Commonwealth Avenue to the Harvard Medical School site.

They separate upon entry to the site.  The map shows the current configuration, the spaghetti of the I90 off ramp to Cambridge and Allston.  This construction is being drastically simplified.  The highway itself will be moved down, toward what I am showing as stop 3, Harvard Medical School.

The highway is raised before the Medical School site.  The Green Line A would go over the side of the Commonwealth Avenue bridge above the Mass. Pike (wrongly shown as below the Mass. Pike on the map).

The Mass. Pike goes from ground level to a raised level to allow the Grand Junction Railroad tracks to go from the Harvard Medical School area to the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge. Green Line A starts out above the road.

They meet in the middle with Green Line A constructed between the Mass. Pike and neighborhing Boston University buildings.

Stop 2 on Green Line A would be a raised station exiting to a large plaza in Boston University’s recently constructed high right residential buildings.

(b) Harvard Medical School site, and general considerations.

This is a segment which will require a change in the map.  Green Line A needs a storage yard.  The only place to put it is in the Harvard Medical School area with storage for South Station anticipated in this area.  I will add the storage between the two alternatives for simplicity of presentation, but the exact location would have to depend on which alternative Green Line A is chosen.  I would like to have the storage under the Mass. Pike for efficient use of land.  That would get tricky on the alternative route.

After station 2, in the preferred alternative, both Green Line A and the Mass. Pike are lowering to ground level and turning.  The exact path is still being discussed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.  My idea is that stop 3 would be at the same level as the Mass. Pike with entry from above, and then Green Line A would go under the Mass. Pike to stop 4 at Cambridge Street and North Harvard Street.

The key to the alternative is that most of the route would be built under a new highway Harvard wants built in its construction area.  The portion of the alternative between Cambridge Street and North Harvard Street is intended to exactly correspond to the Harvard highway.  If I have gotten it wrong, please correct me.

This routing creates an awkward situation when the Mass. Pike and Green Line A enter the Harvard Medical School site.

That highway WILL turn.  So Green Line A has to either go below it or above it.  There is not sufficient space in the area concerned to get Green Line A below the Mass. Pike where they cross.  So Green Line A has to go over the Mass. Pike.

A stop for the Harvard Medical School is needed, and it really should be before crossing the Mass. Pike.  This will have to be a raised station.  This is awkward, and the station is a good distance from the future Harvard facilities on the Harvard Medical School site.  This deficiency is one reason I prefer the other alternative.  This is stop A1.

Green Line A should have a stop for Cambridge Street, a main road.

On the preferred alternative, I put the stop at Cambridge Street and North Harvard.  I consider this location ideal for access to the Harvard Medical School facility, to the neighborhood and to a small amount of industry in the area.  There is adequate room to get Green Line A under the Mass. Pike before the two cross, so station 4 is a normal underground, non intrusive station.

On this alternative, the stop will be of less value to the neighborhood and industry, and much more value to Harvard’s non Medical School operation.

Crossing Cambridge Street is a problem.  I doubt that there will be room after crossing the Mass. Pike to get Green Line A underground before Cambridge Street.  So it will have to be constructed in the air over Cambridge Street.  A bad idea, but the only way it will work.  This is stop A2.

(c) Cambridge Street to Western Avenue.

This starts the area where the advantages to the preferred route have to be considered against the greater inconvenience involved in constructing it.

After crossing Cambridge Street in the alternative, there should be adequate room to drop Green Line A so that it can proceed under Harvard’s New Highway to a simple underground station at Western Avenue, servicing that part of Harvard’s campus.  This station A3 would be just east of former WGBH buildings now owned by Harvard.

There is no avoiding the reality of the much greater inconvenience of building under North Harvard Street.  The very great advantage is that the route would be excellent for the neighborhood.

Either you are going to do a relatively simple route which overwhelmingly benefits Harvard or you are going to go through more bother and give the advantage in this area to the neighborhood.  I think the residents should be given this advantage.

I have suggested station 5 be at Franklin and North Harvard exactly to provide this advantage to the neighborhood.  It is a large intersection which can hold the station, and it has some retail in the area.  Plus the distance from station 5 to station 6 and 4 is about equal, what you want between transit stops.  Station 5 could also be put under Western Avenue.  That is Harvard’s world.  I would prefer the neighborhood’s world.

The big advantage from a transportation planning analysis of Western Avenue would be Buses 70 and 70A running down Western Avenue from Central Square, Cambridge to Waltham.  Bus transfer would be more convenient with the station at Western Avenue.

(d) Western Avenue to the Charles River.

We are back in Harvard’s territory.

I consider it quite essential to end the difference between these routes once the preferred alternative gets to Harvard’s proposed new highway, and run both under North Harvard Street.

I have drawn an alternative west and north of the Harvard Stadium complex.  I am not certain whether the marked area gets around all of Harvard’s buildings.

The reality is that the alternative is much longer than going under North Harvard Street.  It also includes more distance under the Charles River.

Additionally, the station, A4, for Harvard Stadium and Harvard Business School, is farther south than would be ideal.

From an operational point of view, I hope the alternative route is not acceptable in this area.

(e) Charles River and north.

No difference between the alternatives, except for the longer distance under the Charles River for the alternative, the impracticality in the alternative of a station at Memorial Drive and JFK Street / the Anderson Bridge, should such a station be desired..

Whichever route you go with, there will be a need for layover of trains to allow for the inability of Harvard Square station to support two tracks, except for alternative S3.  In the preferred alternative, that can be done in JFK park or under Eliot Street.  Otherwise, layover would have to be created under Eliot Street.

3. The prior reports:

● General analysis:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-new-green-line-ideal-for.html.

● BU Bridge end of Green Line A:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-green-line-boston.html

● Charles River: Green Line A Rapid Transit for Olympics — Harvard Square: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-river-green-line-rapid-transit.html

● Charles River - Harvard Square:  Corrections to Green Line A Harvard Station Proposal:: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-river-harvard-square-to-green.html

● Charles River, Comments:  Olympics, Green Line A; fraud in Cambridge, MA, USA City Hall”  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-river-comments-olympics-green.html.

Charles River, Comments: Olympics, Green Line A; fraud in Cambridge, MA, USA City Hall.

Charles River, Comments:  Olympics, Green Line A; fraud in Cambridge, MA, USA City Hall.


1. Introduction.
2. Green Line A.
a. General, prior reports.
b. Astute Comment.
c. Response.
3. Fraud in Cambridge City Hall propaganda “show.”
a. Introductory.
b. Heartless human abuse..
(1) Introductory.
(2) Cambridge Influenced Comment 1.
(3) Response.
(4) Cambridge Influenced Comment 2.
(5) Response.
c. Heartless animal abuse.
(1) Karen Parker.
(2) Karen Parker.
(3) Other person.
(4) Your editor.


1. Introduction.

I normally do not print comments received.

In the last day or so, I have received a number of comments which are of value to these reports.  So, I am passing them on.

These comments go into the Green Line A alternatives on the Olympics proposal, and into my report on the fraud being implemented in Cambridge City Hall propaganda “show.”

The edits are as follows.  In the heartless human abuse section I deleted a personal comment by me.  I had to reorganize the heartless animal abuse section to clean up mindless “corrections” by my smart phone.


2. Green Line A.

a. General, prior reports.

I got an excellent response to my series of reports providing more detail on a Green Line A to support the Olympics and to provide good transportation for the Allston Brighton neighborhood of Boston.  I am copying the exchange verbatim below.

I will, probably in my next report,  provide a technical analysis based on three maps, the one from MassDOT’s Mass. Pike analysis, a printout from Google Maps provided me by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and my cropping of Cambridge’s Harvard Square map.

One caveat.  In the below, and in the past, I have been mentioning that the Harvard Medical School relocation site is bigger than the Back Bay.  When the BRA representative was getting me the map I will be using, I had a chance to really compare sizes.  I was wrong.  The Harvard Medical School and related site is big, but not that big.

The prior reports:

● General analysis:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-new-green-line-ideal-for.html.

● BU Bridge end of Green Line A:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-green-line-boston.html

● Charles River: Green Line A Rapid Transit for Olympics — Harvard Square: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-river-green-line-rapid-transit.html

● Charles River - Harvard Square:  Corrections to Green Line A Harvard Station Proposal: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-river-harvard-square-to-green.html

I am also enclosing a comment on my report on the fraudulent show going from the City Hall Annex to City Hall.


b. Astute Comment.

Hi Bob.  Thank you for your work in anticipation of this.  Your route for the potential A-line shows it going along N. Harvard St/Ave.

The Green-line would probably have its own right of way, probably on Harvard-controlled property, wouldn't it?  The T has been moving away from street-based trains (E-line and the original A-line).


c. Response.

This is still a preliminary report.

I was thinking of going behind the Harvard Stadium complex until I looked at the maps more closely and I saw the situation on the ground.

The distance needed to go behind the Stadium is massive.  That is the route I would have loved to prevent, at least, going under this portion of North Harvard Street.

The North Harvard Street route really gives two stations for Harvard Medical School and, perhaps, the Olympic village.  The currently mentioned Olympic Village location got blasted by the Globe, but Harvard Med is larger than the Back Bay.  There is plenty of room there to create an excellent Olympics main area.  Private exit from I90, a new Green Line spur.  It could work very well.

And it could well fit Harvard and the Mass. Pike plans.   Housing could be used for market rate until Harvard needs it for students and grads.

Additionally, Green Line A gives two stations for the North Allston neighborhood.

There are detailed plans in the prior report, which can be accessed on the blog, charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com.

The photos which I will present, the second or third report after this will show that, it looks like, the JFK Park has been designed to put Rapid Transit through the park aimed at North Harvard Street and Soldiers Field Road.

No trees need be destroyed on the Cambridge side going through that park, none.

In talking about going away from streets, you may be thinking of going through the former WGBH area.  That is certainly an option.  I have chosen North Harvard Street because I consider the second Medical School stop and the neighborhood benefit of crucial importance.

Perhaps the WGBH route could be sold.  It would be less expensive.  Beyond the Boston University portion, however, it would benefit nobody but Harvard and would not provide as good support for the Medical School.

Building on my detailed analysis of going behind Harvard Stadium, I would think that building under North Harvard Street is necessary in the Harvard Stadium / B School area.  I will not mention going behind Harvard Stadium in the report.  It is too long as it is.

Go to it, if you would like.  I would love to see a discussion based solely on different possible Green Line A routes.

My analysis is all prepared, at least in my mind, and I have a lot of photographs.  It is a matter of putting together a lot of stuff.

Right now, the report I am putting out concerns the Destroyed Nesting Area, based on winter photos.   Working from the state's plans, it looks like the plans are destroying every tree between the Grand Junction and the BU boathouse.

I will finish on the Green Line analysis as rapidly as is feasible, and I would love your input.

Thanks.


3. Fraud in Cambridge City Hall propaganda “show.”

a. Introductory.

For the report on which these responses are based, please see:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-river-environmental-fraud.html

b. Heartless human abuse..

(1) Introductory.

I know the person who is making the comment.  That person is in good faith.

This sort of comment is NORMAL in people with very bad faith.  The bad guys ALWAYS have a slew of nonsensical positions.  This is their version of a search for the TRUTH.  In their world, nonsense which somebody swallows is THE TRUTH.  Trouble is that in Cambridge, MA, USA parroting flat out nonsense is the pols’ substitute for reality.

(2) Cambridge Influenced Comment 1.

I regret your personal distaste for the members of the Cambridge City Council, however corrupt, cowardly, or vicious the behavior of many of them.

This in no way justifies the use of hyperbole concerning the Monteiro case. "Robert Healy was condemned by jury, judge and appeals court panel for destroying the life of Malvina Monteiro, a black, Cape Verdean department head."

Wherever did you get the idea that the heroic Ms. Monteiro's life was destroyed?

And just whom do you believe this rumor will dissuade from doing their work or fighting back.

(3) Response.

Golly gee, you mean the triple damages were a figment of the jury's imagination, or "reprehensible" a figment of the judge's imagination, or "ample evidence of . . . outrageous misbehavior" a figment of the imagination of the appeals court panel which showed its contempt by refusing to dignify the appeal with a formal opinion.

I live in reality.  The world lives in reality and when the world independently evaluates the outrage in Cambridge, the world keeps condemning it.

Ten bad city councilors get reelected through massive contempt for reality.

Oh, is it my imagination that those ten vile City Councilors destroyed the Cambridge Common immediately before this outrageous propaganda in city hall?

(4) Cambridge Influenced Comment 2.

None of this justifies your statement that Malvina Monteiro's life was destroyed.  On the contrary, her principled stand enabled the court case to go forward.

She not only showed courage, she encouraged others.

You are addressing nothing that I wrote  Maybe you cannot.

(5) Response.

I live in reality.

It is unfortunate that folks who believe the situation told to them in Cambridge have problems with reality.

She was a department head.  She was fired for cause with a bad reference, to put it mildly.

She could only find work as a translator.

I live in reality.

Her life was destroyed and the $1.1 million paid for that.  Then you go into the triple plus damages to express outright contempt, $3.5 million.

Then you look at THAT NAME on the police station.

I live in reality.

Ten vile city councilors keep in office because so many Cantabridgians in the middle of a vile machine do not want to know reality.

c. Heartless animal abuse.

I think Karen is responding to this photo and the heartless animal abuse lied about in the propaganda piece and formalized by the belligerently secret fine print.

(1) Karen Parker.

They have just as much claim as anyone else..

(2) Karen Parker.

After all why are people so dam important

(3) Other person.

Um, it used to be their public space?

(4) Your editor.

Man and nature lived happily in harmony, with a lot of tourists visiting the beautiful beings.

Cambridge's friends flat out lied.  No intention to harm the Charles River White Geese said repeatedly to concerned folks.

A "lawn to the river" promised in their planning documents..

A bizarre starvation wall introduced with no explanation.

The non stop fraud of fake groups such as the outrage in City Hall.

This outrage, in very clear current context, is a flat out lie telling people not to look at the ongoing outrage on the Cambridge Common.  They are telling folks not to look at the important and accelerating public outrages on the Charles River, and at Alewife and Fresh Pond..

Cambridge has a truly vile city government.

These corrupt tactics are the norm.

We are dealing with fraud on a large scale seeking to keep ten vile city councillors in office instead of being dumped as they would get if a well intentioned electorate were allowed to get the councillors they are being told they are getting.

Charles River: Environmental Fraud Resumes at Cambridge, MA, City Hall

Charles River: Environmental Fraud Resumes at Cambridge, MA, City Hall

Cambridge, MA, USA pols are extremely vulnerable.

The loudly claim to be pro environment and pro women’s rights.

And they are lying.

So their fake groups lie on their behalf.

The technique is company union.  Yell at the other guy, and do not look at what we are keeping secret about our behavior, directly or through our friends.

Short, excellent examples of the vileness of the Cambridge City Council can readily be seen at their outrageous destruction on the Cambridge Common, at Alewife, at Fresh Pond, on the Charles River and elsewhere.

An excellent example of the contempt of the Cambridge City Council for women’s rights is the name on the Police Station, Robert Healy.  Robert Healy was condemned by jury, judge and appeals court panel for destroying the life of Malvina Monteiro, a black, Cape Verdean department head who had the nerve to listen to the self sanctification of the Cambridge City Council.  She filed a women’s rights complaint.  Healy destroyed Monteiro’s life in retaliation.  Judge, jury and appeals court panel condemned him, ROUNDLY.  The Cambridge City Council did not fire him.  The Cambridge City Council has the police station named in his “honor”.

The fake neighborhood association lost a public meeting on their “plans” for the Charles River.  So they simply stole a vote of “support” through belligerently corrupt behavior.

They have put up a show of their, and their patrons sainthood by bragging of the nice stuff and keeping the vile stuff secret.  Standard lies from the Cambridge Machine.  And not mentioning their own corrupt claim of “support.”

The fake group have exacerbated their vileness by lying that the heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese is normal and acceptable.  Pablum is applied to deliberate starving.  Pablum is applied to further destruction of the tiny ghetto to which they have been condemned.  Lies are included in the show about one of their accomplices in the destruction of the Charles River, and about the Charles River White Geese.

The fake group tells people not to look at the vile stuff.  With regard to the limited scope of their show, the vile stuff includes, the dumping of poisons, the construction of a bizarre starvation wall, the reduction of playing field size to drain off poisons that should not be their, and the fake group’s fighting for the doubling of the area of outrage which they fight for, along with the destruction of a key parking lot.

And, of course, since all folks hear about Cambridge and its buddies is pablum, nothing vile exists in their propaganda piece.

And they give the impression that they stand for something.

The truly vile underpinnings of very vile government are hidden by a bunch of pablum and propaganda from a fake groups whose total “support” was denied in a public meeting , kept stolen through corrupt maneuvers, and further kept stolen through corrupt maneuvers in every one of their subsequent “meetings.”

This is Cambridge, MA.  This is vile.

What are they afraid of?  Ten destructive city councilors are very much at risk to any group of true liberals standing up to the environmental destructiveness and contempt for women’s rights which is their record.

You can only go so far with flat out lies, even lies of omission combined with outright lies on the top of a corrupt base.

But this is only the tip of the iceberg.

It is no coincidence that this outrage is posted in Cambridge City Hall immediately after the very visible destruction on the Cambridge Common.

A sample:

Charles River: Bitter winter rediscovered. Application to the accelerating outrage.

Charles River:  Bitter winter rediscovered.  Application to the accelerating outrage.

1. Introduction.
2. The photos.
3. Summary.
4. Cambridge Application.

1. Introduction.

I have been having problems with my PC.

One major advantage is that I have unearthed my photos from the worst of the winter.  Below is a selection.

The most important things to remember are two:

● The Charles River White Geese have excellent goose down jackets, so are well adapted to severe weather.

● The Charles River White Geese are smart and resourceful, individually and as part of their group.  The group interaction is very valuable.

One thing the Charles River White Geese cannot truly counter is the destructiveness of Cambridge and its friends, destructiveness which is massive and well organized.  Cambridge has a city government against whom nothing is sacred.  The City of Cambridge has even achieved major destruction on the Cambridge Common.

And the Cambridge baddies organize well, on a much larger scale than is possible for a gaggle of magnificent long resident geese.  The Cambridge baddies have even turned the local Sierra Club into one of their fake groups, simply by infiltrating people with bad records and influencing decisions.  The Boston Sierra Club has repeatedly endorsed environmentally vile Cambridge city councilors.

EVERY Boston Sierra Club city councilor destroyed the Cambridge Common.  All of the then Boston Sierra Club endorsees destroyed the irreplaceable 3.4 acres at Alewife..  A subsequent Boston Sierra Club endorsee has praised the environmental behavior at Alewife, rather clearly avoiding mention of the outrageous destruction there.

Is there any likelihood of responsible behavior?  The irresponsible control of the Boston Sierra Club has been in place for many years.  It seems no less irresponsible than the control of the fake “protective” groups.

The reality, however, is that this vile government has a weakness: they have to lie to stay in power.

Their record is provably anti-environment and anti-women’s rights.  All that people have to do is accurately run against a very bad record.

The contempt for the environment is now very visible on the Cambridge Common.  And easily obvious at Alewife and on the Charles River, except to the willfully stupid.  And these are not the full extent of the outrage.

The contempt for women’s rights is flaunted in the name attached to the Cambridge Police Station.  It is named after Robert Healy.  Healy was STRONGLYcondemned by three levels of courts for destroying the life of Malvina Monteiro because she filed a women’s rights complaint.  Fired department head Monteiro is a black Cape Verdean Woman who had the nerve to listen to the words of the City of Cambridge and think she was dealing with decent human beings receptive to her concerns about Cambridge’s treatment of women.  Payments in Monteiro and related cases exceeded 14 million dollars.

It would be nice to see a Liberal Slate in the coming election calling for the defeat of ten extremely bad Cambridge City Councilors, on a City Council with nine positions.  The tenth, former, councilor running was retired by the electorate two years ago and, apparently, wants to return.


2. The photos.

These all date to February 18, 2015.

This is a view from the Boston end of the BU Bridge over the Charles River.  The white building is Boston University’s Boston boathouse.  The highway below it is the Boston equivalent of Memorial Drive.  Both follow the Charles River.  The Grand Junction Railroad Bridge can be seen through the trees.  The apparent purpose for many environmental outrages is the implementation of the transit manager (MBTA)’s proposal to convert this bridge into a highway off ramp to Cambridge from the Massachusetts Turnpike (I90).

Here is the Grand Junction railroad bridge from the BU Bridge.  The Destroyed nesting area is to the left.  The MBTA plan calls for moving the track to the currently unused side of the bridge, to the left, converting the right side to a highway on ramp, and cantilevering a highway off ramp to the right.

Straight ahead above the railroad is the underpass under Memorial Drive.

This is the shoveled off sidewalk of the BU Bridge.

This is the world of the Charles River White Geese.  Until these heartless animal abusers walled off the Magazine Beach playing fields to starve them, the Charles River White Geese, for most of the last 34 years, lived in a mile long habitat centered on the BU Bridge.  Now, to the left is the Destroyed Nesting Area, and to the right of the railroad is the related wild area which the Cambridge City Council is considering separating by a fence.

The yellow building to the far right is Boston University’s Cambridge Boathouse.  The area to the left of the Cambridge Boathouse is the haven of the Charles River White Geese during the worst of a very bad winter.

I tried to access the Charles River White Geese by walking down Boston University’s illegally installed staircase to the left of the railroad, and then walking to the water through the wild area.  The snow was so deep that I could not get to the ground through the show.  My footsteps went down until the snow was packed down.  This route did not work.

This area is pretty close to BU’s Cambridge boathouse.  Part of the facility is visible to the left.  The tall structure is Boston University’s Law School, from which I graduated.  Geese visible on the river look like Canadas.

A lot of white geese can be seen in this photo.  The temperature, almost certainly, was below 20 degrees, possibly single digits.  The horizontal structures are docks, with a lot of snow on them.

This is a photo of a larger area which includes the above.  Note that the free water extends to the right (west) of the orange structures, and there are a lot of white geese there as well.  The dark figures are Canadas.

In a prior report, I showed Canadas as the only residents in the Destroyed Nesting Area.  At that time, the Charles River White Geese were the only geese off the wild area, through which I am shooting.  At that time, there was a lot more free water.


3. Summary.

The 20 million dollars included in Ch. 286 of Massachusetts’ Acts of 2014, “Historic Parkways” will almost certainly destroy all this natural habitat in addition to hundreds of excellent trees.  The destruction plans do not even recognize the existence of these trees.

The plans for destruction are posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.

This is the plan for destruction in this area.  The railroad runs down the middle.  Exactly ONE TREE is shown to the right of the railroad, out of this thick vegetation.

To show you we are omitting nothing.  This is the next plan to the right (east).  It stops at BU's Cambridge boathouse.

These destructive people do not even recognized these trees as trees.  This lie of omission easily amounts to 100 to 200 hundred trees, perhaps more, all to be destroyed, clear cut pretty much as the Cambridge City Council’s destruction on the Cambridge Common.

EVERY tree between the railroad track and BU’s Cambridge boathouse would be destroyed by Chapter 286.

It is always a serious mistake to say “they would never stoop so low” when you are talking about Cambridge and its accomplices.


4. Cambridge Application.

Ten bad Cambridge City Councilors running for nine Cambridge City Council seats.

And they are lying that they are responsible Liberals.

Charles River - Harvard Square:  Corrections to Green Line A Harvard Station Proposal


1. Introduction.
2. General.
3. Elaboration and correction to prior analysis, stations S1 and S2.
a. Harvard Station Lobby, station S1.
b. Lower busway, station S2.
4. Prior Reports.


1. Introduction.

This is the fourth report in a series on possible Rapid Transit support for the Boston 2024 Olympics, to help the Boston Allston neighborhood, and to receive repairs to Charles River damage inflicted by Cambridge, MA and its friends.

The main purpose of this report was to provide photos I took while investigating the Cambridge Common outrage.

I took quite a few, but my operation is based on my computer.  Things are going wrong with the computer.

I am going to pass on the corrections I have accumulated and try to figure out what is going on with my photo situation.

2. General.

Here are my main map showing most of the route of the possible Green Line A connector.  The map is superimposed on the plans of the central area which is Harvard’s probable relocation of its Medical School.  A detailed analysis of the area has been done by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation with regard to rearrangement of the Massachusetts Turnpike (I90) in the area.

Please refer to my first analysis for details.  The main map does not include the northern end of the idea, with stations at Harvard Business School / Stadium and at Harvard Square.  Much more details in the third analysis.

The Olympics proposal has hostile feelings among the Cambridge organization.  They are yelling “anti-environment” which could refer to the plans to outdo at least one of Cambridge’s and friends outrages on the Charles River.

These folks are joiners.  This tiny number of people could impact many organizations.  They have turned the local Sierra Club, in particular, into just another fake group praising environmentally destructive Cambridge City Councilors.

3. Elaboration and correction to prior analysis, stations S1 and S2.

I made two slip ups, at minimum, in my very detailed analysis of the possibilities in Harvard Station.

a. Harvard Station Lobby, station S1.

One understated the amount of work needed in the Harvard Station lobby.

The tunnel which has been unused since the 70s when the Red Line was extended to Alewife is separated from the main station by a non load bearing wall, and a coffee shop is in front of or in the tunnel.  I have suggested that the coffee shop be moved closer to the center of the lobby and in the direction of the bus tunnel ramps.  It could also be moved to the mezzanine of the starirwell to the station lobby from Harvard Square proper.

This area is shown as a dashed line ending at the letter T at the top right of that map.

The nearest bus tunnel ramp to the Green Line A tunnel goes up to the upper busway.  A further ramp goes down a short distance to the lower busway. The upper busway ramp is wider than the lower busway ramp.  That difference in dimensions is reminiscent of the situation in the JFK park toward which the Green Line A tunnel aims.

JFK Park has quite a few trees, but there are absolutely none in the area where work would be necessary for a rapid transit line.  That gives the impression that room was left for the rapid transit line.

The same applies to the ramps in Harvard Station.  The nearer ramp could be needed to be narrowed to give passenger access to a Green Line A terminus.  It is also possible that the ramp could have to be moved over into the lower ramp area.  The lower ramp is duplicative of a staircase which gives direct access.  Since it is duplicative of that staircase, there is a lot of flexibility in the rearrangement of the ramps should passenger access to a Green Line A terminus need to be built.

My attitude toward building the terminus in the lobby is affected by the need to move the main station elevator which is currently between the coffee shop and the ramps.

That would be quite a bit of work.  It would be possible on the opposite side of the stairwell, but the impact could be more than really is necessary.

b. Lower busway, station S2.

The busways run to the darkened plaza to the left of Harvard Square.  This is at a turn in Brattle Street.  The side street is Brattle Street.  The street next to the busway is next to Brattle Street.

There is an elevator at this corner to the upper, not the lower, busway.  This would not impact the Green Line A tunnel because it stops above the tunnel.  I have no knowledge as to the impact of the construction of that elevator on the Green Line A tunnel.

At the same location is a stairwell which gives pedestrian access to the upper busway tunnel and to the main Harvard Station lobby through the tunnel.

Access to the lower tunnel from the upper turns out to be by a separate stairwell of to the side though the Green Line A tunnel area.  That stairwell would have to be moved to provide direct access to the lower busway tunnel.  You would go down the stairs and keep on, after a break, keep on going.  Upper busway access would be provided next to the second level staircase.

Rearrangement of the staircases would take space out of the lower busway which would become split between bus and Green Line A access, station S2.  There are many examples of multiple buses using the same stops, at minimum.  This additional space should not be any big thing.

4. Prior Reports.

The prior reports are posted at:

General analysis:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-new-green-line-ideal-for.html.

BU Bridge end of Green Line A:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-green-line-boston.html

Harvard Square analysis, preliminary:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-river-green-line-rapid-transit.html.

Charles River Under Attack, Spring Photos

RE: Charles River Under Attack, Spring Photos

1. Threatened excellent tree, one of hundreds.
2. Destroyed nesting area, spring morning.
3. Two river shots.


The outrage at the Cambridge Common and my work on the possible Green Line A project combined with some computer oddities, so that I have not been able to pass on some photographs I took on April 29 at the destroyed, and threatened Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

1. Threatened excellent tree, one of hundreds.

This tree is magnificent.  It is just east of the BU Bridge, hanging over the Destroyed Nesting Area.

This tree is one of the hundreds the fake neighborhood association is fighting to destroy by telling people to look at everything else.  That destruction is likely to include even more destruction in the Destroyed Nesting Area and ramping up of the abuse of the Charles River White Geese, 34 year, beloved residents of the BU Bridge area of the Charles River, beloved except by the folks spending the money.

The dirt is the remnants of the BU Bridge project, delivered by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation following plans of the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

The politics are that the DCR is truly vile and is in bed with the fake ground which calls itself a neighborhood assocation and lies that it is defending the Charles River.  This is a standard company union.  Fill a gap, lie that you are holier than thou and fight for exactly the opposite of what you claim to stand for.

Everything this vile group tells people not to look at, this vile group is fighting for.

When it put its “plans” up for public comment insofar as it did not lie through omission, the fake group’s SACCHARINE laced plans would have been defeated if they had been put up for a vote.  So its indulged in corrupt tactics and stole “support” through corrupt tactics for the SACCHARINE laced version of its plans.

This tree is temporarily living proof of just how vile Cambridge, its fake groups and their friends are.

Through corrupt tactics, they have working for destruction and destruction.

MassDOT is a breath of fresh air.  They are not perfect, and there is only so much of the determined vileness of Cambridge and its friends they can stand up, but they are a breath of fresh air in the stench which is Cambridge, its friends, and its fake groups.

Cambridge has shown on the Cambridge Common, the sort of outrage this reprehensible government considers normal.  It is silly to distinguish between Cambridge, the DCR and all the various lovely sounds which lack reality.

This tree is probably fatally condemned by this vile government and its friends, along with hundreds of others and along with further attacks on the ghetto to which the Charles River White Geese have been confined.

This tree is probably fatally condemned by this vile government and its friends, along with hundreds of others and along with further attacks on the ghetto to which the Charles River White Geese have been confined.

The key vote at the State House was Ch. 286, of the Acts of 2014, “Historic Parkways.”

Twenty million dollars.

2. Destroyed nesting area, spring morning.

This used to be lush vegetation.  The two patches of vegetation coming to life on the left and the bottom are the portions which were not destroyed by Cambridge’s friends.  There are signs on the right of each of these patches that nature is starting to heal itself, but nature will probably not be allowed to do so.

The much more visible, and falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” went through this place destroying ground vegetation.  And replacing ground vegetation with dirt.  This is what they call an improvement.  They clearly were acting as agents for the state bureaucrats and, through the state bureaucrats, the vile core of the City of Cambridge.

The fake Conservancy has been the front for Cambridge and its friends in the fight for further destruction of trees including, almost certainly, a direct attack on the Charles River White Geese’s ghetto where they have been confined without food since Cambridge / friends walled off Magazine Beach with invasive bushes to keep water uses away from the banks of the Charles River and to starve the Charles River White Geese.

More recently, rail workers WITH THE EXPLICIT PERMISSION / DIRECTION OF THE KEY MANAGER added to the destruction and dumped more crushed stone.  This highly paid fraud has spent at least a decade lying that he has no intention to harm the Charles River White Geese.

And the publicly announced plans being considered by the Cambridge City Council for destruction here would only be a start on the $20 million outrage supported by the State House in 2014.

3. Two river shots.

The destroyed nesting area is to the left.  Once again, the waterfront was lushly vegetated until Cambridge’s friends destroyed the vegetation.

The structure in the middle is the railroad bridge on the Grand Junction Railroad.  This is the future location of an off ramp from the Massachusetts Turnpike (I90) to Cambridge, if the powers that be get their way.  This off ramp is the key reason behind the destruction of those hundreds of trees.  Cambridge and its friends are rearranging Memorial Drive to take the traffic.

Just beyond the bridge on the left is an adjacent wild area.  Cambridge / the bureaucrats / the CRC destroyed this area for resident animals as part of the Destroyed Nesting Area destruction.

Beyond the trees visible on the left is a yellow building.  That is Boston University’s Boston boathouse.

The Charles River White Geese spent the worst days of a very bad winter on the Charles River just before this boathouse.  I never saw the river fully frozen.

The Destroyed Nesting Area / the Charles River pretty close to the BU Bridge.  The diagonal area at the bottom left is a portion of the BU Bridge.

Charles River: Green Line A Rapid Transit for Olympics — Harvard Square

Charles River: Green Line A Rapid Transit for Olympics — Harvard Square

1. Introduction.
2. General Analysis.
3. Harvard Station connection — Platform alternatives.
a. General.
b. Station S1 at the existing Harvard Station passenger area.
c. Station S2, next to the lower busway.
d. Station S3, under Eliot Street.
4. Harvard Station connection — Actual route alternatives.
a. Route 1, through JFK Park with general comments.
b. Route 2, through JFK Park with a sixth Green Line A Station, with general comments.
c. Route 3, under Eliot and JFK Streets, without or without a sixth Green Line A station.
d. Routes 4 and 5.  Deep bore under the JFK School with or without the sixth Green Line A station.
5. Conclusion.



1. Introduction.

This is the third report in a series on possible Rapid Transit support for the Boston 2024 Olympics, to help the Boston Allston neighborhood, and to receive repairs to  Charles River damage inflicted by Cambridge, MA and its friends.

The two prior reports are posted at:

General analysis:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-new-green-line-ideal-for.html.

BU Bridge end of Green Line A:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-green-line-boston.html

2. General Analysis.

Here is a map of the future home of Harvard Medical School, sometime in the 21st Century, maybe.  A former rail yard has been moved to Worcester, leaving most of the site empty.  The site is larger than Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.  Superimposed on the plan is a proposed Green Line A spur to grant access to the area.

The site is located to the east of Cambridge Street in Boston’s Allston Neighborhood, with residential and industrial uses on the southern end and Harvard’s ongoing expansion on the northern end.  It is south of (below) the Charles River and Soldiers Field Road.  To the east of the location (right) on its south is a residential part of the Allston neighborhood and, on its north, the western end of the Boston University campus.  The site’s southern end is close to the Allston Village shopping area.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is in the process of greatly decreasing the land occupied by I90 / Massachusetts Turnpike’s exit to Cambridge and the Allston neighborhood of Boston.

There are a number of planned locations for Olympics activities near this site, as analyzed in the second report.  The turnpike rearrangement will be done with plenty of time to use this area for the Olympics.

There are major plans for South Boston / Dorchester in areas which are currently in use, and the people using those areas do not want to lose their property.

This area in Allston is empty, massive and will be ready for use in time to prepare for the Olympics.  The Mass. Pike rearrangement gives vehicular access.  Parking structures could be constructed which would be underutilized until Harvard decides to go forward with its Medical School relocation.  Housing could be constructed at the bottom, narrow point of the triangle which could be used for rentals until Harvard is ready to use it. The very clear and major benefit to Harvard gives Harvard incentive, to subsidize the effort financially.

Cambridge influenced “activists” are yelling anti-environment at the Olympics.  The reality is that  the Olympics folks want to undo part of the outrages inflicted on the Charles River by Cambridge and its friends.  Environmental improvements are commonly called exactly the opposite of reality by Cambridge controlled folks.

The Olympics people sound friendly to me so far and I can common cause in undoing much more of Cambridge / friends destructive ideas.  In particular, I would want to help their destruction of Cambridge’s outrage at the Magazine Beach playing fields.

The Olympics folks need public transportation.  A new Green Line spur running from the Green Line at the BU Bridge area in Boston through their planned sites and Harvard’s Planned Medical School and then to the Red Line at Harvard would be ideal for their needs, as shown on the map.  The general analysis is linked above.  The analysis of the BU Bridge area, which benefits the Charles River White Geese and other residents of the Charles River is in the second link.

Below is a detailed plan with maps on how to make the connection to Harvard Station.  I will follow up with relevant photographs.  The analysis is based on a Cambridge map of the area.

3. Harvard Station connection — Platform alternatives.

a. General.

Here is a map of the area approaching Harvard Station.

The key to the connection is a tunnel which runs from Harvard Station most of the way to the Charles River.  This tunnel was used for 70 years or so to give access from the then terminus of the Red Line at Harvard Square to a former Red Line yard which was located near the river.

There is now no physical impediment whatsoever to using that tunnel.  You just need to connect to it from the Boston side and make rearrangements in Harvard Station which are less than massive, and definitely much less massive than the Harvard proposal for public transportation to their future Medical School location.

The broken line in the map represents the existing tunnel.  It is two stories below ground.  Location is approximate.

The tunnel ends slightly to the left and down of the line which is visible.  Before Harvard constructed the building between the tunnel and Eliot Street, the tunnel was visible in the wall supporting a pathway connecting Eliot Street to the JFK Park, two stories above the tunnel.

On the upper right is a black marked island bearing the letter T.  This is Harvard Square.  The T mark is the area housing the Harvard Station complex, including stairs, escalators and an elevator to the street two floors above the pedestrian plaza of Harvard Station.

I have marked “S1" next to the station plaza.  This is an ideal location for the Harvard Station terminus of a Green Line A.  Going to the left, there are “S2" and “S3" markings for two alternate locations, all two stories below ground.

b. Station S1 at the existing Harvard Station passenger area.

Roughly at the point of the “T” are two stories of stairs and escalators.  The access starts at ground level on the left.  They move to the right to a mezzanine, reverse direction and end two stories below the point where they started.

Looking down on the map, below/south, you see on the station level a Dunkin Donuts strip line shop.  That shoo is between the public area and the tunnel.  All that is necessary for access to the tunnel is to move the coffee shop closer to the stairs and further to the left, so that people can access the tunnel by going around the shop and waiting for the trains behind the shop.  A bank of telephones could easily be moved to the other side of the stairs / escalators, and the wall can be removed as far over as is needed for access.

The standard MBTA fare machines can be constructed in a line at the beginning of the Coffee Shop with appropriate barriers.

The one part of the rearrangement that requires work is the elevator for handicapped access.  That elevator would have to be moved to the north side of the mezzanine.  The elevator could, on relocation, grant direct access to the area on the far side of the stairs / escalators and could also grant access to the mezzanine which is now not possible for the handicapped.  Moving the donut shop to the mezzanine could be an ideal rearrangement.  The mezzanine was designed for sale of passes at that location.  Other relatively small uses could remain on the mezzanine or be moved do to the passenger plaza on the far side of the stairs near the relocated elevator, among other possibilities.

This arrangement is a prime location for the Green Line A terminus.  The big defects is moving the elevator.

c. Station S2, next to the lower busway.

There is a two level busway above the tunnel as you look at the map.  The two run parallel in the block between the two streets (Palmer and Brattle) to the left of the T station.  Two alternate station locations “S2" and “S3" are left and right of the second street, Brattle Street.  The first block from the T location is part of Brattle Street.

All that separates the Green Line A tunnel and the LOWER of the two busways is a non load supporting wall.  After Brattle Street side street, the bus tunnels run under the building above the S3 marking and connect to the next street, Mt. Auburn Street.

There is an elevator from the ground level to the UPPER of the two busways next to Brattle Street.  It is located just to the right of the Brattle Street side street.

All that is necessary to create a Green Line Terminus next to the EXISTING platform of the LOWER of the two busways is to tear down the non load supporting wall.  The problem with this location is the interaction with the busway and the busstops.

It would be necessary to move the existing bus stops to the right, in order to close off an area at the Station S2 platform for fare machine access..  The bus stops currently occupy more horizontal space than do comparable bus waiting facilities.  Moving the bus stops would probably be feasible.  It would make the operation tighter, but not at all unusual.  A wall / open fence could be created separating the busway from the waiting area for Green Line A.

An existing stair from the Brattle Street and its side street grants access to the busways.  Through the upper busway, it connects to the main station and the Red Line.  This stair would provide direct access to station S2.  Foot traffic to the lower busway currently uses that staircase. Continued access to the lower buswaywould be no big thing.  Just go down the ramp from the upper busway, and you are at the lower busway.  Given the need to move the bus stops, access would be very close to identical to the current situation.

The only defect in station S2 is the need to crowd the bus stations.  Plus, it is further from the rest of the operation that in station S1.  I think that station S2 is the best possible of the three locations.  Its access from the main station complex is pretty much identical to the Red Line access.

There is a very big advantage in the removal of the need to rearrange the main part of the station by moving the elevator.

Station S2 is definitely feasible.

d. Station S3, under Eliot Street.

Station S3 would involve constructing the Green Line A platform two stories down under Elliot Street between the existing building and the triangular piece of open space.

Underground access would be simple.  Just tear down part of the non load supporting wall between the Green Line A tunnel and the lower busway passenger waiting area, and turn the existing tunnel into pedestrian access.  The Green Line A tunnel end would end at Station S3's end, at the pedestrian access on left side of the Brattle Street side street.

Ground access would be constructed from the triangular open space or the large sidewalk below / south of it, along with a handicapped elevator.

Station S3 would be easy for construction of the usual toll control.

The disadvantages to Station S3 are that it is the furthest from the main station, and that it would involve very real construction with related surface damage and interference during construction.

Waiting space would have to be to the right of the tunnel because the tunnel is right next to the building.

4. Harvard Station connection — Actual route alternatives.

I will take these one by one.  Route 1 is the preferred but there are advantages to the other routes.

We will start with Map B showing Routes 1 and 2.

a. Route 1, through JFK Park with general comments.

John F. Kennedy Memorial Park seems to have been designed with this route in mind.

There would be NO DESTRUCTION OF TREES on the Cambridge side and any destruction on the Boston / Allston side would be of very young trees if at all.

This would be a matter of digging up under the pathway to JFK park from Eliot Street.  Then connect the existing tunnel to a new tunnel going south.

Construction under the path could only hold one track.  Construction could be accomplished north / above the path under Eliot and Brattle Streets, creating double trackage to but not including Station S1, for a lesser distance to the other station alternatives.

Double tracking the terminus at Station S2 probably would not be possible.  It would require a platform between the two tracks.  There is not enough room down there for the busway with its existing waiting area, two tracks and an additional area between the tracks for the new platform.

Station S3 would definitely allow that sort of track doubling, and would allow loading / unloading on alternate tracks in the manner which is currently done at Alewife Station on the Red Line.  This capability is a very major advantage to the Station S3 location.

Cut and cover construction to cross the Charles River would involve damming off the Charles River first to one side and building and then to the other side and building.  The connection to North Harvard Street would be at the northeast corner of the Harvard Stadium complex.  If it is needed to go near the nearest building, that is where young trees would be destroyed.  Then under North Harvard Street and proceed to Harvard Stadium / Harvard Business School stop located wherever convenient.  Harvard’s current athletic facilities south of Harvard Business School should have vehicle storage located under it, and would be ideal for deep bore staging during construction.

The time factor for cut and cover construction under the Charles River probably would prevent opening in time for the Olympics.

Additionally , getting under Soldiers Field Road at this point could be dicy with cut and cover.  The practical way to do this would be digging very deep to go under.

The minute you are digging very deep to get under Soldiers Field Road, you might as well do the entire construction very deep using “deep bore” construction.

In alternative 1, deep bore would start almost immediately upon contact with the existing Green Line A tunnel under the pathway, and go down, with work access from the very large existing treeless part of the JFK Park.

The exact Harvard Stadium / Business School Station location would be determined taking in mind the slope calculation of the Green Line A tunnel.

The Green Line A route would be double track until you arrive at the existing pathway area between the Charles Hotel and the JFK School.  At that point, under JFK park space, trains would wait for trains ahead of them to unload / load.  Plus space should be left under JFK Park for some storage. Larger storage should be constructede under the Harvard athletic facilities south of Harvard Business School.  Additional layover would be constructed by cut and cover under Eliot Street (which goes as far north as the Brattle Street turn).

Trains would wait in the layover spots for trains to unload and load in the station if the station is a one track stub, or if there is a backup problem.

b. Route 2, through JFK Park with a sixth Green Line A Station, with general comments.

There is a very large intersection at JFK Street / the Anderson Bridge and Memorial Drive.  This could hold a sixth station giving access to JFK Park, south Harvard Square, and to this part of Harvard University, plus to Charles River uses.

Route 2 would connect to the existing tunnel as would Route 1, and then go cut and cover or deep bore to the new JFK Station.  From there cut and cover could be done on either side of the Anderson Bridge, or deep bore under the Anderson Bridge.

Cut and cover would involve tree destruction.  Deep bore would minimize or eliminate it.

c. Route 3, under Eliot and JFK Streets, without or without a sixth Green Line A station.

Route 3 would connect to the existing tunnel under Eliot Street, then turn with Eliot Street, and turn into JFK Street, to the Anderson Bridge area.

It would definitely be possible to do cut and cover along this route, with the three alternative Charles River crossings previously discussed.  This route would allow double tracks up to or including the stations as mentioned above.  Because of the double track possibility, and all other things equal, this route would be preferable to routes 2 and 1.  Construction would clearly be highly disruptive and expensive, obviously a disadvantage.

Construction could be moved to deep bore pretty rapidly if deep bore for routes 4 and 5 is not possible because you cannot get under the JFK School fast enough.

This route allows for but does not require the sixth new rapid transit station under the very large intersection at Memorial Drive and JFK Street, which could be used for access to this part of Harvard, of Harvard Square, and to JFK Park.

d. Routes 4 and 5.  Deep bore under the JFK School with or without the sixth Green Line A station.

Deep bore under the Kennedy School of Government, either to the sixth station or separate from it.  The tunnel starts two stories below ground at the existing tunnel.  Construction would proceed under Eliot Street to the JFK School building next to the connecting path.  The new tunnel would have to be far enough down to minimize impact on the JFK School.

Double tracks would be possible all the way to the Harvard Statoin station alternatives.  Station S3 would probably prevent getting deep enough to go under the JFK School.

5. Conclusion.

I would think that Station S2 with layover under Eliot Street and deep bore route 1 would be the preferred alternative.  It is the least disruptive and probably the least expensive alternative.  Eliot Street layover would be needed for the deep bore construction route, and probably would be preferred, in addition to JFK Park layover for the cut and cover alternative.

This analysis replaces portions of my earlier analysis.  I have thought things over more deeply.

Photos of existing conditions will follow.

Updating of “What We Can Do to Help on the Charles River?”

Updating of “What We Can Do to Help on the Charles River?”

This information is linked near the top of the blog.

I have just updated it with reorganization.

The information includes very brief comment on the outrage which involves the Charles River and related outrages by the City of Cambridge and its friends.

The information provides a lot of ideas on “What We Can Do to Help on the Charles River?”

It is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-can-we-do-to-help-on-charles-river.html, in addition to the link at the top of the blog.

Charles River: Charles River: 10 Bad City Councilors on a 9 Member Cambridge, MA, USA City Council

Charles River:  Charles River:  10 Bad City Councilors on a 9 Member Cambridge, MA, USA City Council.

1. 10 Bad City Councilors on a 9 member City Council.
2. Cambridge Common.
3. Alewife.
4. Malvina Monteiro.
5. Charles River.
6. Overview.
7. Summary.


1. 10 Bad City Councilors on a 9 member City Council.

Said with knowledge of reality.

2. Cambridge Common.

I have just reported on the outrage on the City Council’s destruction of the Cambridge Common.

I informed the current Cambridge City Council of their plans for destruction of the Cambridge Common, and and I objected to their plans for destruction of the Cambridge Common.

I included photos of the threatened outrage.

That report is posted at http://youtu.be/ FgQ9ojVuMxM.  Photos of their achievement are posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-river-cambridge-common-outrage_17.html.

About a month before the destruction, the current Cambridge City Council (with appropriate euphemisms) sent an order to the Cambridge City Manager wondering why the trees had not been destroyed and encouraging him to destroy them as fast as possible.  No objections to the order.

I note from the Winters blog that he anticipates last term City Councilor Minka Y. vanBeuzecom to be seeking reelection after a term of forced absence by the voters.

VanBeuzecom is one of the standard Cambridge liars claiming to be environmental saints.  Her house signs contain a graphic lying of environmentalism.  She clearly protects the environment based on Cambridge's secret definition in which “environmentalism” is defined as the protection of that part of the environment which is not currently being destroyed by the City of Cambridge.

VanBeauzecom voted for the funds for destruction of the Cambridge Common.  Her explanation was that the Development Department told her it was ok.

3. Alewife.

This includes multiple destruction of the environment at Alewife, a lot in compliance with irresponsible zoning under the supervision of the Cambridge Council.  This includes the destruction of 3.4 acres of Alewife behind 165 CambridgePark Drive by the City of Cambridge and its friends, with the strong likelihood of total destruction coming.

During vanBeuzecom’s term of office, I sat through a presentation associated with her in which she bragged of environmental enlightenment of the City of Cambridge at Alewife.  Under the Cambridge definition of “environmentalism,” she was bragging about protection of the environment except for that part of the environment being destroyed by the City of Cambridge.

I directly questioned her about Cambridge’s destruction of those 3.4 acres of irreplaceable woodlands in the Alewife reservation behind 165 CambridgePark Drive.  VanBeuzecom had no problem with the destruction of those 3.4 acres.

VanBeuzekom has served as a poster girl for the fake “protective” group fighting for destruction at Alewife while, of course, ignoring the destruction they are fighting for.

But vanBeuzekom loves to brag on Cambridge’s enlightenment at Alewife.

4. Malvina Monteiro.

This follows on the outrage of the destruction of the life of Malvina Monteiro.

Monteiro was a black Cape Verdean department head.  Monteiro had the nerve to believe the non stop claims of sainthood by the Cambridge City Council.  Monteiro had the nerve to file a women’s rights complaint alleging bias in pay because she was a woman.

Three levels of court STRONGLY condemned the then Cambridge City Manager, Robert Healy for this outrage.  Exactly ZERO members of the Cambridge City Council were in any way concerned about the outrage.  Exactly ZERO attempted to implement the very strong court communications and fire Healy for Malfeasance in Office.  He retired with honor.

The Cambridge City Council even named the Police Station after this person.

Healy committed “reprehensible” behavior.  Healy had presented about him “ample evidence of . . . outrageous misbehavior.”

These quotes are from the trial judge’s formal opinion and the Appeals Court Panel’s non formal formal opinion.  The trial jury awarded Monteiro $1.1 million real damages and $3.5 million PENAL damages, to express their contempt for the destruction of the life of Malvina Monteiro by Robert Healy.

This blog has fully quoted these two opinions.  The opinions are readily available from links on the home page of this blog.

All of the five currently sitting Cambridge City Councilors who have more than two years experience were part of this outrage.

5. Charles River.

This follows on the so many outrages on the Charles River.

Just to pick one, a vote that stands out is the vote of $20 million by the State House to destroy hundreds of excellent trees and animal habitat between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, including the destroyed nesting area where the Charles River White Geese are being deliberately starved by Cambridge and its friends.  Massachusetts Ch. 286 of the Acts of 2014, “Historic Parkways”

My communication of DETAILED destruction plans to the current Cambridge City Council is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.  They claim “neutrality” which translates as a wink and a nod, especially when viewed in light of their reprehensible record.

They are working on so many other outrages and have voted for so many other outrages.

Among other things, a unanimous Cambridge City Council, including vanBeuzekom, voted for “underpasses” for the three bridges after the BU Bridge on the Charles River.

The responsible state agency, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, has condemned this proposal as environmentally destructive and wasteful of state money.

The fraudulently named Charles River “Conservancy” has called the destruction supported by vanBeauzecom and company something which includes the outrage in Ch. 286 of the Acts of 2014, “Historic Parkways.”  CRC fought for that destruction using this argument.

6. Overview.

I really cannot go into the massive tome which can be created.

The outrage on the Cambridge Common combined with the ongoing AND ACCELERATING outrage on the Charles River.

This disqualifies the current nine incumbents from being considered anything other than vile.

So the issue is other past city councilors who might be running.

Four councilors were not reelected in the last election.  Two, a current state representative and Davis, stood out as the most environmentally destructive members.  The current state representative did not seek reelection after being coronated for higher office.

Davis ran for more than a decade under the lie of being an “environmentalist” (under the Cambridge pols’ secret definition of :environmentalism,” secrecy of the definition never being mentioned, of course).  She did not seek reelection.  Good riddance.

That leaves vanBeauzecom and a Black gay man.

The Black gay man was part of the part of the accelerating environmental outrage.  He was part of the Monteiro outrage.  One councilor was fired by the voters, probably over Monteiro, in the prior election.  Monteiro was probably part of an accumulation of bad achievement by the Black gay councilor that resulted in his firing.

The Black gay councilor is not listed as a candidate by Winters.  He has apparently sold his house on Harvard Street.  Another good riddance.

VanBeuzecom.  Outrage on the Cambridge Common.  Outrage on the Charles River.  Outrage at Alewife.

VanBeuzecom clearly qualifies as the tenth bad city councilor.  She makes things worse because her lies of environmentalism make her fighting for votes that could go to people who are meaningfully pro environment.

7. Summary.

Ten bad city councilors fighting for nine city council seats in a truly vile political world.