1. Introduction
2. Rent Control — The Key Issue.
3. The Statewide Rent Control Referendum — Initial Analysis.
4. State Wide Referendum — More Detailed Analysis.
5. The Key Activist is a typical victim of the Cambridge Machine.
6. Summary.
1. Introduction
I have been going through GOOD questions and responding to them on this blog.
One of the best came from George Despotes who has had a number of good questions.
He, for good reason, wants me to meaningfully communicate exactly what the Cambridge Machine is.
He gave me the question by email and I gave him a thoughtful response by email. Many of my recent posts have been codifications of responses to questions raised by email or the equivalent.
The trouble in this case is that neither one of us can find my answer.
In drafting an answer anew, it seems to me that it would be helpful to show the depravity of the Cambridge Machine by its using a long time rent control activist to do harm to the rent control movement and, possibly, to be a key person in the killing of rent control.
The rottenness of the machine is, at least in part, demonstrated by its abuse of good people, and its maneuvering of good people into destroying their own cause.
2. Rent Control — The Key Issue.
Rent Control was immediately challenged by the property interests in the City of Cambridge after its passage and implementation. The attacks resulted in a key decision in the 70s by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
The SJC found rent control to be a responsible and proper action of consumer protection taken by the government to even the playing field in rental property where the landlords constituted a shared monopoly over a scarce resource and were abusing that monopoly.
This is not a concept made up by me. This is my fair attempt to communicate the SJC’s decision.
The SJC found that the minute rent control was used for other than consumer protection, i.e. as a tax on landlords for the benefit of tenants, Rent Control was dead.
So naturally, the landlords ran around calling Rent Control a tenant subsidy.
There was no grounds to prove that rent control was a tenant subsidy rather than consumer protection, so the landlords never won in court.
Rent Control had a lot of symptoms of being destroyed from within by people functioning as folks fighting against their own cause.
One of the victims was the Key Activist. Somebody got to the Key Activist and talked the Key Activist into believing the Landlord Position. After all, it sounds so good. This is the constant con from the Cambridge Machine. Pick out a key point, use outrageous nonsense that sounds good, and get the supporters of a cause to adopt that Key Point which destroys them.
3. The Statewide Rent Control Referendum — Initial Analysis.
I would have liked to have participated in the tenant side of the statewide Rent Control referendum. I, however, saw two individuals in the statewide group who had very destructive records in the ranks of the Cambridge Tenants Movement. At one point the movement took a vote to expel them because of their destructiveness. The vote resulted in a tie.
A key reason for the tie? A “radical” group with all the stench of the Cambridge Machine trooped in people to the vote who did not have the slightest idea what they were talking about, but knew who did their thinking for them.
They saved the Destructive Duo from being thrown out of the tenant movement.
I knew the record of the Destructive Duo. I knew how destructive they were. So I became a director of the Massachusetts Tenants Organization which was key in the statewide organization. I hoped that, from MTO, I could neutralize their destructiveness.
The report I got out of the statewide organization comported with my expectations. My contact was shocked at the destructiveness of the Cambridge contingent. My contact was of the opinion that, because the vote was so close, the Cambridge Contingent’s destructiveness could very easily have kept the organization from properly functioning and thus killed rent control.
Looking at this report and knowing the record of the Destructive Duo, I considered his report accurate and saw my expected damnation of the Destructive Duo.
This function is a normal tactic of Company Unions, of which the Cambridge Machine is very clearly one.
Prevent action by the good guys and thus hand a victory to the bed guys.
4. State Wide Referendum — More Detailed Analysis.
I have recently had my opinion of the key activities in that election changed by talking with the Key Activist.
My change of opinion does not change my condemnation of the Destructive Duo, however. That is because, in my opinion, by preventing appropriate action for perhaps the last ten years of rent control, they created a stench of self-serving in the tenant movement. Among many other things, during two consecutive elections, the Destructive Duo vetoed action THROUGH ABUSE OF OFFICE to prevent the implementation of binding votes by their organization. I won the votes. They simply lied about the position of their organization.
Prevent implementation of the goals of their organization through tactics no matter how irresponsible — sound familiar — they sure sound like just two more agents of the Cambridge Machine / Company Union.
These are guys the Radical arm of the Cambridge Machine kept from being thrown out of the tenant movement.
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The Key Activist is another situation.
This person was involved in the fight to create Rent Control in the 60s and is an undisputed fighter for Rent Control. His behavior has been very consistently positive, WITH ONE KEY EXCEPTION. The trouble is he got handled. If somebody gets handled in Cambridge, the answer is obvious. The Cambridge Machine.
The Key Activist, after being conned by the Cambridge Machine is an aggressive supporter of the Landlord Position, that Rent Control is a subsidy for Tenants, in spite of the very clear court decision that, if Rent Control is a subsidy, Rent Control is dead.
The Key Activist admits to fighting and fighting for the Landlord Position during the statewide organizational meetings. The Key Activist admits that the Destructive Duo fought against him. The Destructive Duo pointed out that his position would kill Rent Control because of the SJC decision.
The Key Activist has or had a very strong problem of fighting his points way beyond the limits of reason. He just keeps talking and won’t let the meeting do any business.
That sounds like they report I got from my contact, very much like the report I got from my contact.
The Key Activist was key in the two subsequent referenda to reinstitute rent control. The Key Activist made certain the Landlord Position was included in both referenda. The Key Activist made certain that Rent Control could only get reinstituted if it were illegal because of his demand to include the Landlord Position.
5. The Key Activist is a typical victim of the Cambridge Machine.
The Key Activist is aggressively fighting against Rent Control because he has been persuasively conned. He will not allow Rent Control to be reinstituted unless it is illegal.
The Key Activist is a normal victim of the Cambridge Machine.
The Key Activist has no meaningful distinction from Rent Control opponents except that he thinks he is fighting for Rent Control.
The Key Activist is an excellent example of how the Cambridge Machine can be so effective.
All they have to do is fool one key person, and that key person will destroy his/her own cause.
Interestingly, I recently antagonized him/her by saying that he/she has been fighting for the Landlord Position for years. That made him/her very hostile. It is very dangerous to meaningfully communicate to a victim of the Cambridge Machine. They can get very hostile.
This is a normal reaction in a victim of a skillful con operation.
6. Summary.
This is the sickness of the Cambridge Machine.
It is impossible to tell the difference between the knaves and the fools, and it is irrelevant.
A fool who have been effectively conned can and does destroy his/her own cause.
And the Cambridge Machine continues its tradition of destroying so many causes it claims to support.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Friday, March 21, 2014
Cambridge Machine Continues its Environmental Attack, This time giving the wrong impression on Bees, plus the attacks on so much of the rest of the environment of the Charles River
Last night the Cambridge Machine reaffirmed its fight for environmental destruction on the Charles River in a “meeting.”
The usual tactics: lie of environmental sainthood while suppressing the reality of existing and pending environmental destruction.
Exacerbating the outrage was a presentation on the bee problem without mentioning that they are part of the bee problem through their own outrages. The usual situation: a well meaning person defending bees was used to give the wrong impression that he and the Cambridge Machine are on the same side.
Buried at the end was their bragging that they are fighting to destroy the remaining quiet beauty through commercialization of the historical building and its environs.
As usual, they told people to look at that old building which has not been used for 80 years and
1. Ignore 14 years of attacks on Magazine Beach and its animals,
2. Ignore their poisons on the banks of the Charles and their corrupt tactics to expand it. But they were pious about the bees and did not mention that the bees’ problems stem from environmental poisons, or their own support for environmental poisons at Magazine Beach which they are fighting to expand through the corrupt April 23 “vote.”
3. Ignore the “underpass” proposal which they support which will destroy hundreds of trees between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge through the riverfront highway which they support through the irresponsible “underpasses” games, which is now in front of the legislature in the Governor’s House Bill H3332.
4. Ignore their corrupt April 23 vote to expand the Magazine Beach outrages and to destroy the parking lot at the historical building, along with encouragement of H3332 by supporting part of the new highway.
5. Ignore Harvard’s coming off ramp from the Mass. Pike with its bike highway stalking horse.
6. Ignore the environmental destruction associated with the bike highway inflicting destruction on the Charles River at the tiny remaining habitat of the Charles River White Geese.
7. Ignore the years of heartless animal abuse and their company union fight to make it worse.
8. Ignore the state’s goal to kill off all animals in the Charles River Basin, but listen to well intended and truly noble expressions about the bee problem.
But neglect to mention that their fight to continue and expand their beloved poisons on the banks of the Charles are part of the direct attacks of bees.
Two new city councilors were present and made a presentation. I was kept from asking them about Cambridge’s filthy hands on the Charles.
Particularly interesting (and suppressed) is part of the environmental destruction of Magazine Beach which, like so many things, has been kept quiet. The deal was that Cambridge gets control of Magazine Beach in exchange for funding the outrage there. I do not recall any noise about that transfer deal. I was not allowed to ask about that.
But a transfer of Magazine Beach control would make Cambridge’s filthy hands that much more clear. And the most important thing, after the environmental destruction, is lying about clean hands.
They did promise that the new councilor Councillor McGovern neglected to mention is still coming.
And there was mention about solar energy, naturally not mention the very major environmental deficit through Cambridge’s environmental depravations. People can make money through solar energy.
A very typical evening of company union hypocrisy.
The usual tactics: lie of environmental sainthood while suppressing the reality of existing and pending environmental destruction.
Exacerbating the outrage was a presentation on the bee problem without mentioning that they are part of the bee problem through their own outrages. The usual situation: a well meaning person defending bees was used to give the wrong impression that he and the Cambridge Machine are on the same side.
Buried at the end was their bragging that they are fighting to destroy the remaining quiet beauty through commercialization of the historical building and its environs.
As usual, they told people to look at that old building which has not been used for 80 years and
1. Ignore 14 years of attacks on Magazine Beach and its animals,
2. Ignore their poisons on the banks of the Charles and their corrupt tactics to expand it. But they were pious about the bees and did not mention that the bees’ problems stem from environmental poisons, or their own support for environmental poisons at Magazine Beach which they are fighting to expand through the corrupt April 23 “vote.”
3. Ignore the “underpass” proposal which they support which will destroy hundreds of trees between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge through the riverfront highway which they support through the irresponsible “underpasses” games, which is now in front of the legislature in the Governor’s House Bill H3332.
4. Ignore their corrupt April 23 vote to expand the Magazine Beach outrages and to destroy the parking lot at the historical building, along with encouragement of H3332 by supporting part of the new highway.
5. Ignore Harvard’s coming off ramp from the Mass. Pike with its bike highway stalking horse.
6. Ignore the environmental destruction associated with the bike highway inflicting destruction on the Charles River at the tiny remaining habitat of the Charles River White Geese.
7. Ignore the years of heartless animal abuse and their company union fight to make it worse.
8. Ignore the state’s goal to kill off all animals in the Charles River Basin, but listen to well intended and truly noble expressions about the bee problem.
But neglect to mention that their fight to continue and expand their beloved poisons on the banks of the Charles are part of the direct attacks of bees.
Two new city councilors were present and made a presentation. I was kept from asking them about Cambridge’s filthy hands on the Charles.
Particularly interesting (and suppressed) is part of the environmental destruction of Magazine Beach which, like so many things, has been kept quiet. The deal was that Cambridge gets control of Magazine Beach in exchange for funding the outrage there. I do not recall any noise about that transfer deal. I was not allowed to ask about that.
But a transfer of Magazine Beach control would make Cambridge’s filthy hands that much more clear. And the most important thing, after the environmental destruction, is lying about clean hands.
They did promise that the new councilor Councillor McGovern neglected to mention is still coming.
And there was mention about solar energy, naturally not mention the very major environmental deficit through Cambridge’s environmental depravations. People can make money through solar energy.
A very typical evening of company union hypocrisy.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Email: Bikes from Grand Junction to Boston's Bike Highway?
1. General.
2. Question.
3. Response, with inserts replacing references.
1. General.
We have received the following email concerning our reports on the stalking horse that destructive bike activists have a right to environmental destruction to connect to Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road on the Boston side of the Charles. The question and my response.
2. Question.
Hi. Even if bikes cross the river via the RR bridge, how do they get to/from the "Storrow Drive" river path?
Is there a planned ramp along the Boston edge of the river connecting them?
3. Response, expanded.
Standard Cambridge Machine lie.
MassDOT AND the DCR in the early meetings on the interconnectivity study were highly scornful of this nonsense. It cannot be done. The bike activists are being used to get Harvard's off ramp.
The bike highway along the Grand Junction tracks can make ready connection to Memorial Drive by putting a tiny connection between the tracks and the Vassar Street turn. That will be "suddenly" discovered when convenient.
I am printing your question and the answer with the photos attached, Vassar Street side and track side.
Here is the Vassar Street side.
Here is the track side.
Here is a blow up of the usual aerial shot.
The square to the left of "Memorial" is the BU Boathouse, on the south side of Memorial Drive and just east of the woods whose ground vegetation has been destroyed by the Charles River "Conservancy". Then comes the tracks and the Destroyed Nesting Area.
The Vassar Street turn is between the M and the tracks, but blocked by the building which is to the right of two adjacent buildings which, in turn, are separated by Vassar Street. To the left of Vassar Street and the blocking building is a black area which is the roof of one of the two buildings, a major building between Vassar Street and the tracks east and west. South and north it faces Memorial Drive and a small parking lot. That parking lot appears as a gap.
Then there is a white marking. My guess is that the white marking is the white building. The bike highway should connect from the track to Vassar Street in that portion of the gap, a parking lot, which abuts the white building. Another interpretation would be that the white spot is where the connector should be, with the white building above the connector in the photo.
The bike highway would then proceed to Memorial Drive.
If Cambridge had a responsible government, this is the route which would be the only connection to the Charles River under discussion.
Cambridge does not have a responsible government, so environmentally destructive people are being used as a stalking horse for Harvard’s off ramp from I90 (Mass. Pike) over the Grand Junction railroad bridge to Cambridge. When the con plays out, the destructive bicycle activists would be put on this connector where they should be from the beginning.
2. Question.
3. Response, with inserts replacing references.
1. General.
We have received the following email concerning our reports on the stalking horse that destructive bike activists have a right to environmental destruction to connect to Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road on the Boston side of the Charles. The question and my response.
2. Question.
Hi. Even if bikes cross the river via the RR bridge, how do they get to/from the "Storrow Drive" river path?
Is there a planned ramp along the Boston edge of the river connecting them?
3. Response, expanded.
Standard Cambridge Machine lie.
MassDOT AND the DCR in the early meetings on the interconnectivity study were highly scornful of this nonsense. It cannot be done. The bike activists are being used to get Harvard's off ramp.
The bike highway along the Grand Junction tracks can make ready connection to Memorial Drive by putting a tiny connection between the tracks and the Vassar Street turn. That will be "suddenly" discovered when convenient.
I am printing your question and the answer with the photos attached, Vassar Street side and track side.
Here is the Vassar Street side.
Here is the track side.
Here is a blow up of the usual aerial shot.
The square to the left of "Memorial" is the BU Boathouse, on the south side of Memorial Drive and just east of the woods whose ground vegetation has been destroyed by the Charles River "Conservancy". Then comes the tracks and the Destroyed Nesting Area.
The Vassar Street turn is between the M and the tracks, but blocked by the building which is to the right of two adjacent buildings which, in turn, are separated by Vassar Street. To the left of Vassar Street and the blocking building is a black area which is the roof of one of the two buildings, a major building between Vassar Street and the tracks east and west. South and north it faces Memorial Drive and a small parking lot. That parking lot appears as a gap.
Then there is a white marking. My guess is that the white marking is the white building. The bike highway should connect from the track to Vassar Street in that portion of the gap, a parking lot, which abuts the white building. Another interpretation would be that the white spot is where the connector should be, with the white building above the connector in the photo.
The bike highway would then proceed to Memorial Drive.
If Cambridge had a responsible government, this is the route which would be the only connection to the Charles River under discussion.
Cambridge does not have a responsible government, so environmentally destructive people are being used as a stalking horse for Harvard’s off ramp from I90 (Mass. Pike) over the Grand Junction railroad bridge to Cambridge. When the con plays out, the destructive bicycle activists would be put on this connector where they should be from the beginning.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Is Harvard’s Off Ramp from the Mass. Pike (I90) to Cambridge about the Geese?
1. Question from Anjell Bejanian on facebook concerning Harvard’s off ramp over the Charles River from Mass. Pike to Cambridge.
2. Editor’s response, with some adds.
1. Question from Anjell Bejanian on facebook concerning Harvard’s off ramp over the Charles River from Mass. Pike to Cambridge.
Forgive me Robert for sounding stupid, but is this about the Geese?
2. Editor’s response, with some adds.
My biggest problem in these reports is avoiding getting off on the multiple games going on. With the Charles River White Geese the most visible and most beloved victims.
The environmental destruction on the Cambridge side is stemmed directly to this off ramp relocation and related items.
At absolute minimum, the presence of living and popular animals is very destructive to their cause.
Directly, and obviously related is the planned destruction of hundreds of trees to straighten out Memorial Drive to take the mess.
Putting the off ramp on the Grand Junction puts it in the middle of the Geese habitat, plus it is highly likely that the Destroyed Nesting Area is foreseen as future location of toll booths.
This relocation also moves more traffic to Memorial Drive in the other direction. The bridge across Memorial Drive was just rebuilt to Interstate standards. The advance description, of course, was “repairs.” Tearing down an underheight overpass and replacing it with a higher overpass able to take Interstate traffic is described as “repairs” only in the corrupt world which manages the Charles River.
They are divvying up the spoils variously as well. The nesting area has shown on certain city maps as the "BU Triangle." BU conducted the first destruction in 1999 and tried to turn it into a recreation area. The only beings to really use it were the animals who were attacked by this much less extensive destruction.
Magazine Beach is used as graduation facilities for BU. The building of that bizarre wall to starve the white geese is another step toward the divvying up of the river bank. They find living animals offensive and inappropriate for their new greater world in which the banks of the river belong to the insitutions.
The tree destruction, in turn, is the second phase in making the Cambridge side of the Charles River the personal property of MIT, but, once again, living animals are antithetical to their idea of a college campus, unless somebody is paid to install the living animals.
Maps of the off ramp planning show a highway directly connecting to Memorial Drive east through woods which are to the east of the nesting area and used for nesting to the extent the real nesting area is destroyed.
All ground in that woods has had its ground vegetation destroyed by the Charles River "Conservancy" at the same time as they destroyed a third or more of the ground vegetation in the nesting area.
Then you get into that very destructive east west highway for another collection of destroyers.
Good question. Thank you.
2. Editor’s response, with some adds.
1. Question from Anjell Bejanian on facebook concerning Harvard’s off ramp over the Charles River from Mass. Pike to Cambridge.
Forgive me Robert for sounding stupid, but is this about the Geese?
2. Editor’s response, with some adds.
My biggest problem in these reports is avoiding getting off on the multiple games going on. With the Charles River White Geese the most visible and most beloved victims.
The environmental destruction on the Cambridge side is stemmed directly to this off ramp relocation and related items.
At absolute minimum, the presence of living and popular animals is very destructive to their cause.
Directly, and obviously related is the planned destruction of hundreds of trees to straighten out Memorial Drive to take the mess.
Putting the off ramp on the Grand Junction puts it in the middle of the Geese habitat, plus it is highly likely that the Destroyed Nesting Area is foreseen as future location of toll booths.
This relocation also moves more traffic to Memorial Drive in the other direction. The bridge across Memorial Drive was just rebuilt to Interstate standards. The advance description, of course, was “repairs.” Tearing down an underheight overpass and replacing it with a higher overpass able to take Interstate traffic is described as “repairs” only in the corrupt world which manages the Charles River.
They are divvying up the spoils variously as well. The nesting area has shown on certain city maps as the "BU Triangle." BU conducted the first destruction in 1999 and tried to turn it into a recreation area. The only beings to really use it were the animals who were attacked by this much less extensive destruction.
Magazine Beach is used as graduation facilities for BU. The building of that bizarre wall to starve the white geese is another step toward the divvying up of the river bank. They find living animals offensive and inappropriate for their new greater world in which the banks of the river belong to the insitutions.
The tree destruction, in turn, is the second phase in making the Cambridge side of the Charles River the personal property of MIT, but, once again, living animals are antithetical to their idea of a college campus, unless somebody is paid to install the living animals.
Maps of the off ramp planning show a highway directly connecting to Memorial Drive east through woods which are to the east of the nesting area and used for nesting to the extent the real nesting area is destroyed.
All ground in that woods has had its ground vegetation destroyed by the Charles River "Conservancy" at the same time as they destroyed a third or more of the ground vegetation in the nesting area.
Then you get into that very destructive east west highway for another collection of destroyers.
Good question. Thank you.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Machine “admires” Charles, Trader Joe’s Revisited.
1. Machine “admires” Charles.
2. Return visit to Trader Joe’s.
1. Machine “admires” Charles.
George Despotes reports that the Cambridge Machine has posted lovely photos of the Charles River on their blog, even one of the area where they are working for the destruction of hundreds of trees.
The basic con of the Cambridge Machine is one used as well by the Cambridge City Council.
Yell, yell, and coo about a whole bunch of stuff which has no meaning but which sounds nice.
Then ram through the real business as fast and as secretly as possible and tell folks to look at everything except for the important stuff.
The Cambridge Machine organization is a belligerent company union. They succeed if they shut up all discussion of the destructive efforts under way on the Charles River. Suppression of discussion with a bureaucracy actively destroying achieves their goals.
This is the reason for non stop yelling about a building which has not been used for 80 years combined with prohibition against discussion of the very major problems created and being planned by their friends.
That is why the corrupt vote of April 2013 was rammed though in ten minutes with no chance to read anything until the beginning of the ten minutes.
They doubled the environmental destruction at Magazine Beach. They blessed the Governor’s proposed destruction of hundreds of trees and heartless animal abuse (House Bill H3332) by blessing their part of that irresponsible highway. They supported destruction of the little guys parking lot at the foot of Magazine Street.
This is the most basic of con games and hypocritical destruction. Yell about everything except what is important. Do your destruction as fast as possible and with as little ethics as necessary. Then go back to the false front.
The Cambridge Machine and the Cambridge City Council have achieved major destruction with such tactics while lying that they are pro environment.
2. Return visit to Trader Joe’s.
I went back to get photos.
They did not allow it. No photos in the store.
A further review of the mural did indicate that I overstated its width. It dominates the middle rear of the store but there are smaller murals to the left and right. 50% of the width? Perhaps.
That goose dominates the left end of the mural. Vertically, his span, foot to top of head is perhaps 75% of the height of the mural. The BU Bridge is behind him and he is looking west, thus viewing the rest of the mural. He is a unifying entity behind the work.
Excellent.
2. Return visit to Trader Joe’s.
1. Machine “admires” Charles.
George Despotes reports that the Cambridge Machine has posted lovely photos of the Charles River on their blog, even one of the area where they are working for the destruction of hundreds of trees.
The basic con of the Cambridge Machine is one used as well by the Cambridge City Council.
Yell, yell, and coo about a whole bunch of stuff which has no meaning but which sounds nice.
Then ram through the real business as fast and as secretly as possible and tell folks to look at everything except for the important stuff.
The Cambridge Machine organization is a belligerent company union. They succeed if they shut up all discussion of the destructive efforts under way on the Charles River. Suppression of discussion with a bureaucracy actively destroying achieves their goals.
This is the reason for non stop yelling about a building which has not been used for 80 years combined with prohibition against discussion of the very major problems created and being planned by their friends.
That is why the corrupt vote of April 2013 was rammed though in ten minutes with no chance to read anything until the beginning of the ten minutes.
They doubled the environmental destruction at Magazine Beach. They blessed the Governor’s proposed destruction of hundreds of trees and heartless animal abuse (House Bill H3332) by blessing their part of that irresponsible highway. They supported destruction of the little guys parking lot at the foot of Magazine Street.
This is the most basic of con games and hypocritical destruction. Yell about everything except what is important. Do your destruction as fast as possible and with as little ethics as necessary. Then go back to the false front.
The Cambridge Machine and the Cambridge City Council have achieved major destruction with such tactics while lying that they are pro environment.
2. Return visit to Trader Joe’s.
I went back to get photos.
They did not allow it. No photos in the store.
A further review of the mural did indicate that I overstated its width. It dominates the middle rear of the store but there are smaller murals to the left and right. 50% of the width? Perhaps.
That goose dominates the left end of the mural. Vertically, his span, foot to top of head is perhaps 75% of the height of the mural. The BU Bridge is behind him and he is looking west, thus viewing the rest of the mural. He is a unifying entity behind the work.
Excellent.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Trader Joe’s: Friends of the Charles River White Geese
Trader Joe’s Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, has a mural extending above the coolers in the back of the store. It runs almost from one end of the store to the other.
It is a mural of the Charles River viewed from the Cambridge side. It runs, from left to right, from the BU Bridge to the River Street Bridge, the next bridge to the west.
Standing in the foreground, dominating his portion of the mural, is a beautiful Emden White Goose.
That White Goose and the rest of his gaggle have lived and fed at this location, Magazine Beach, for most of the last 33 years. They have been heartlessly barred from their food and their home by the City of Cambridge, MA, and the bureaucrats of the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Trader Joe’s, God bless them, is proudly proclaiming on that mural the great value of the Charles River White Geese, and exactly where the Charles River White Geese should be.
The bureaucrats have stated, in their Charles River Master Plan, their goal of killing off or driving away as many resident animals as they can get away with. They very formally are the destructive enemies of all resident animals who live on the Charles River Basin.
The bureaucrats’ public explanation for starving and heartlessly abusing the Charles River White Geese?
The key manager has loudly and repeatedly proclaimed his intent to do “no harm” to the Charles River White Geese. Even during the most heartless and outrageous of the attacks, he has restated this blatant lie. And clearly this outrage, along with many others, was done without public warning or approval.
Trader Joe’s Memorial Drive is the first or second Trader Joe’s store on the East Coast (perhaps after Coolidge Corner, Brookline). Trader Joe’s Memorial Drive was founded in about 1996, and they have been good friends of the Charles River White Geese.
I understand, talking with the manager this afternoon, that this mural was hand painted across nearly the entire back wall of the store about two years ago. It is beautiful and its very accurate glorifying of these beautiful beings is the sort of feeling that decent human beings have.
They are good people, and most people in Cambridge and the surrounding area are good people.
Then you have the Cambridge Machine which indulges in very much non stop lies about themselves. Those lies are necessary to fool decent people about where the Cambridge Machine and their destructive friends are really coming from.
It is a mural of the Charles River viewed from the Cambridge side. It runs, from left to right, from the BU Bridge to the River Street Bridge, the next bridge to the west.
Standing in the foreground, dominating his portion of the mural, is a beautiful Emden White Goose.
That White Goose and the rest of his gaggle have lived and fed at this location, Magazine Beach, for most of the last 33 years. They have been heartlessly barred from their food and their home by the City of Cambridge, MA, and the bureaucrats of the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Trader Joe’s, God bless them, is proudly proclaiming on that mural the great value of the Charles River White Geese, and exactly where the Charles River White Geese should be.
The bureaucrats have stated, in their Charles River Master Plan, their goal of killing off or driving away as many resident animals as they can get away with. They very formally are the destructive enemies of all resident animals who live on the Charles River Basin.
The bureaucrats’ public explanation for starving and heartlessly abusing the Charles River White Geese?
The key manager has loudly and repeatedly proclaimed his intent to do “no harm” to the Charles River White Geese. Even during the most heartless and outrageous of the attacks, he has restated this blatant lie. And clearly this outrage, along with many others, was done without public warning or approval.
Trader Joe’s Memorial Drive is the first or second Trader Joe’s store on the East Coast (perhaps after Coolidge Corner, Brookline). Trader Joe’s Memorial Drive was founded in about 1996, and they have been good friends of the Charles River White Geese.
I understand, talking with the manager this afternoon, that this mural was hand painted across nearly the entire back wall of the store about two years ago. It is beautiful and its very accurate glorifying of these beautiful beings is the sort of feeling that decent human beings have.
They are good people, and most people in Cambridge and the surrounding area are good people.
Then you have the Cambridge Machine which indulges in very much non stop lies about themselves. Those lies are necessary to fool decent people about where the Cambridge Machine and their destructive friends are really coming from.
Letter: Trains use the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge
1. Introduction.
2. Question.
3. Response.
1. Introduction.
We have done several reports on the ongoing attempts to run exit traffic from I 90 (Mass. Pike) to Cambridge by way of the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge.
I got the following email in response to the second of the two reports. Links are provided in my response. I have slightly edited my response without changing its substance.
One explanation may be of value. In both of my photo reports, I point out a highway sign. In the first report, that highway sign is directly ahead if you simply follow the train tracks. In the second report, emphasizing the view from Boston, the sign is quite visible and I point out the connection to the Grand Junction Bridge in that background. The below response includes comment on what is on that highway sign.
I am attaching the usual satellite / areal map of the area from a government environmental report in 2006. I will not bother you with yet another detailed explanation of the photo. Either you do not need it, or, hopefully, the markings on the photo which I put there will be adequate.
The BU Bridge is identified to the right in the photo. The railroad bridge in question is visible running under it.
If that does not work, my explanation in the links, hopefully, will be adequate.
I appreciate a good question.
2. Question.
Isn't it true that the BU railroad bridge (a double set of tracks bridge with tracks only on side) is used daily to move train sections between North and South stations for the commuter rail?
And that this is the only connection between the two without going all the way out to 495?
3. Response.
That is the reason the MBTA study called for widening it by placing a third pathway to the east of the bridge. I believe it was proposed as sort of a cantilever arrangement.
The need for the third pathway is the reason why the machine is conning the bike highway lobby to widen the underpass under Memorial Drive, under the lie that it is for a bike highway.
It will be for a bike highway until Harvard needs its off ramp. Harvard purchased the future Harvard Medical School area several months after the report was published. Also occurring shortly after the report was the approval of a U Turn (which is reflected on that highway sign). The U-Turn makes the Grand Junction conversion viable for both directions rather than just to / from the west, which was the MBTA proposal, until the MBTA "suddenly" discovered that the cost of the project far outweighed the value of a Newton - Cambridge direct bus line. Strange, that limitation was obvious from the beginning.
When Harvard gets its off ramp, the bike highway will be rerouted where it should, responsibly, be put in the first place, to connect to Vassar Street at the point where Vassar Street right turns a few feet from the railroad tracks, and then to Memorial Drive by a much shorter route. I provided photos of the turn / connection in the pair of photo analyses, both from the road and the railroad side. Please check the blog,
The more recent of the pair of reports is at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-reality-of-harvard-universitys.html.
The earlier is at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/photos-harvards-targeted-off-ramp.html.
Also of interest is the immediately prior report, presenting the MassDOT / DCR "connectivity" report, at
http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/charles-river-conductivity-study.html. During the initial presentations of this study, the engineers expressed scorn for the lie that is at the basis of the highway lobby's "bike" highway to connect to Boston. They call the connection impossible.
2. Question.
3. Response.
1. Introduction.
We have done several reports on the ongoing attempts to run exit traffic from I 90 (Mass. Pike) to Cambridge by way of the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge.
I got the following email in response to the second of the two reports. Links are provided in my response. I have slightly edited my response without changing its substance.
One explanation may be of value. In both of my photo reports, I point out a highway sign. In the first report, that highway sign is directly ahead if you simply follow the train tracks. In the second report, emphasizing the view from Boston, the sign is quite visible and I point out the connection to the Grand Junction Bridge in that background. The below response includes comment on what is on that highway sign.
I am attaching the usual satellite / areal map of the area from a government environmental report in 2006. I will not bother you with yet another detailed explanation of the photo. Either you do not need it, or, hopefully, the markings on the photo which I put there will be adequate.
The BU Bridge is identified to the right in the photo. The railroad bridge in question is visible running under it.
If that does not work, my explanation in the links, hopefully, will be adequate.
I appreciate a good question.
2. Question.
Isn't it true that the BU railroad bridge (a double set of tracks bridge with tracks only on side) is used daily to move train sections between North and South stations for the commuter rail?
And that this is the only connection between the two without going all the way out to 495?
3. Response.
That is the reason the MBTA study called for widening it by placing a third pathway to the east of the bridge. I believe it was proposed as sort of a cantilever arrangement.
The need for the third pathway is the reason why the machine is conning the bike highway lobby to widen the underpass under Memorial Drive, under the lie that it is for a bike highway.
It will be for a bike highway until Harvard needs its off ramp. Harvard purchased the future Harvard Medical School area several months after the report was published. Also occurring shortly after the report was the approval of a U Turn (which is reflected on that highway sign). The U-Turn makes the Grand Junction conversion viable for both directions rather than just to / from the west, which was the MBTA proposal, until the MBTA "suddenly" discovered that the cost of the project far outweighed the value of a Newton - Cambridge direct bus line. Strange, that limitation was obvious from the beginning.
When Harvard gets its off ramp, the bike highway will be rerouted where it should, responsibly, be put in the first place, to connect to Vassar Street at the point where Vassar Street right turns a few feet from the railroad tracks, and then to Memorial Drive by a much shorter route. I provided photos of the turn / connection in the pair of photo analyses, both from the road and the railroad side. Please check the blog,
The more recent of the pair of reports is at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-reality-of-harvard-universitys.html.
The earlier is at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/photos-harvards-targeted-off-ramp.html.
Also of interest is the immediately prior report, presenting the MassDOT / DCR "connectivity" report, at
http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/charles-river-conductivity-study.html. During the initial presentations of this study, the engineers expressed scorn for the lie that is at the basis of the highway lobby's "bike" highway to connect to Boston. They call the connection impossible.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Comments on the photos of the Destroyed Nesting Area and on Harvard’s off ramp
1. General.
2. March 11, 2014 photos.
3. February 28, 2014, The reality of Harvard’s new off ramp.
A. Comment.
B. Response.
1. General.
We have received interesting comments on facebook on our two recent reports. I have cleaned up some typos.
2. March 11, 2014 photos.
First Anjell on our report of March 11, 2014, entitled March with the Charles River White Geese, posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/march-with-charles-river-white-geese.html.
She is responding to the photo of the blocking of the entrance.
Anjell Bejanian
Oh, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
3. February 28, 2014, The reality of Harvard’s new off ramp.
This report was posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-reality-of-harvard-universitys.html.
A. Comment.
Ari Ofsevit commented:
Wait, how does the Grand Junction bridge go to Harvard? MIT, sure, but it doesn't really go anywhere near Harvard
B. Response.
Hello Ari,
Welcome as a new friend of the Charles River White Geese.
Your question shows you know the turf, somewhat. Your question also shows why the Cambridge Machine has created an organization which runs around lying that they love the Charles River, followed by comments that if you love the Charles River, it is irresponsible to look at anything other than an ancient building that has not been used for 80 years.
The game is to have really major issues hidden through obfuscation tactics that have done a lot of damage in Cambridge during the City Manager regency which dates back to 1974. A lot of organizations have been created during that time which claim to be defending Cambridge and doing exactly the opposite.
One of the most recent fake groups, prior to the Cambridge Machine’s fight to destroy on the Charles River, was a group which claimed to be defending Alewife.
You just had to yell at the private developers exercising their zoning rights and ignore the behavior of the guys who created the zoning. The guys who created the zoning were fighting to destroy their part of Alewife.
The leader of that fake group then bragged of the first bunch of inexcusable destruction of irreplaceable acres of Alewife by her friends.
Please look at this posting on the blog at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-reality-of-harvard-universitys.html, and look at the second posting before it on facebook and on the blog at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/photos-harvards-targeted-off-ramp.html.
The most important tactic of the Cambridge Machine is to lie about which side they are on and then stab their victims in the back.
Additionally, since you are clearly not fully familiar with the area, I am enclosing a map I have repeatedly published with my two reports. It is analyzed in detail in those two reports.
Please review my two postings in great detail.
The short part of the answer is, first, please look with great care at that rail yard / Mass. Pike exit on the far left of the aerial / satellite photo. The rail yard has been vacated. You will note that that area is across the Charles River from Magazine Beach. Further examination indicates that the Grand Junction rail bridge under the BU Bridge directly connects to that rail yard to Cambridge.
Harvard bought this area shortly after the MBTA proved the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge can be used as an exit from the Mass. Pike to Cambridge. An awful lot of environmental destruction is consistent with easing that off ramp into a position where traffic currently using the exits that Harvard now owns can be moved onto the new exit ramp. Other destruction is consistent with sharing the spoils.
Harvard’s recent purchase is larger than the Back Bay neighborhood. It very clearly is the future home of Harvard Medical School and related facilities. I can give you a whole bunch of other reports on that matter, but please start at looking at the reports directly on the point you are asking about and which you clearly have not read.
Thank you very much for your concern.
I think so highly of your comment that I will pass it on on the blog along with another comment on my most recent post.
2. March 11, 2014 photos.
3. February 28, 2014, The reality of Harvard’s new off ramp.
A. Comment.
B. Response.
1. General.
We have received interesting comments on facebook on our two recent reports. I have cleaned up some typos.
2. March 11, 2014 photos.
First Anjell on our report of March 11, 2014, entitled March with the Charles River White Geese, posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/march-with-charles-river-white-geese.html.
She is responding to the photo of the blocking of the entrance.
Anjell Bejanian
Oh, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
3. February 28, 2014, The reality of Harvard’s new off ramp.
This report was posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-reality-of-harvard-universitys.html.
A. Comment.
Ari Ofsevit commented:
Wait, how does the Grand Junction bridge go to Harvard? MIT, sure, but it doesn't really go anywhere near Harvard
B. Response.
Hello Ari,
Welcome as a new friend of the Charles River White Geese.
Your question shows you know the turf, somewhat. Your question also shows why the Cambridge Machine has created an organization which runs around lying that they love the Charles River, followed by comments that if you love the Charles River, it is irresponsible to look at anything other than an ancient building that has not been used for 80 years.
The game is to have really major issues hidden through obfuscation tactics that have done a lot of damage in Cambridge during the City Manager regency which dates back to 1974. A lot of organizations have been created during that time which claim to be defending Cambridge and doing exactly the opposite.
One of the most recent fake groups, prior to the Cambridge Machine’s fight to destroy on the Charles River, was a group which claimed to be defending Alewife.
You just had to yell at the private developers exercising their zoning rights and ignore the behavior of the guys who created the zoning. The guys who created the zoning were fighting to destroy their part of Alewife.
The leader of that fake group then bragged of the first bunch of inexcusable destruction of irreplaceable acres of Alewife by her friends.
Please look at this posting on the blog at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-reality-of-harvard-universitys.html, and look at the second posting before it on facebook and on the blog at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/photos-harvards-targeted-off-ramp.html.
The most important tactic of the Cambridge Machine is to lie about which side they are on and then stab their victims in the back.
Additionally, since you are clearly not fully familiar with the area, I am enclosing a map I have repeatedly published with my two reports. It is analyzed in detail in those two reports.
Please review my two postings in great detail.
The short part of the answer is, first, please look with great care at that rail yard / Mass. Pike exit on the far left of the aerial / satellite photo. The rail yard has been vacated. You will note that that area is across the Charles River from Magazine Beach. Further examination indicates that the Grand Junction rail bridge under the BU Bridge directly connects to that rail yard to Cambridge.
Harvard bought this area shortly after the MBTA proved the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge can be used as an exit from the Mass. Pike to Cambridge. An awful lot of environmental destruction is consistent with easing that off ramp into a position where traffic currently using the exits that Harvard now owns can be moved onto the new exit ramp. Other destruction is consistent with sharing the spoils.
Harvard’s recent purchase is larger than the Back Bay neighborhood. It very clearly is the future home of Harvard Medical School and related facilities. I can give you a whole bunch of other reports on that matter, but please start at looking at the reports directly on the point you are asking about and which you clearly have not read.
Thank you very much for your concern.
I think so highly of your comment that I will pass it on on the blog along with another comment on my most recent post.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
March with the Charles River White Geese
Here are a few photos from Saturday, March 8, 2014, at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.
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The entrance to the area is blocked as more starvation tactics, supposedly, I presume, as safety, but they are being deliberately starved by walling off their food for most of the last 33 years, and it is only humane to allow them a little bit of food across the on ramp to Memorial Drive.
When this opening was created, it was definitely negative for the reason why the closing is up now, for safety reasons, but the ongoing starvation tactics definitely changes things. The blocking will be taken down, obviously, when something more harmful is done.
In addition, the Charles River White Geese are careful jaywalkers. They stand on the side of the ramp until it is safe to cross and only then do they cross. The drivers love them, as do all decent human beings. The negative to their crossing is that they are geese. Once they start crossing, they do tend to meander.
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The Charles River White Geese look for what food there is in the remnants of the supposed “amelioration” for the BU Bridge project. This area looks bad. The real bad area is the area that was not damaged by the BU Bridge project. That is the area with the massive destruction of ground vegetation by the Charles River “Conservancy”. The CRC destruction was made worse in the last year by railroad workers and “unidentified” people who came after the railroad workers and made things worse.
Then again, the introduced vegetation that is thriving could very well be yet another example of the outrage at Magazine Beach: bushes which are allowed to grow and grow and grow, blocking movement between the Charles River and Magazine Beach there, and destroying even more of the Destroyed Nesting Area for the permanent residents here.
The area in the middle of the first photo is a small portion of ground vegetation which was neither destroyed by the Charles River “Conservancy” nor by the BU Bridge Project nor by other, various irresponsible workers.
Undestroyed native vegetation, this and others, is consistently the best stuff in the area, and will once again be that when spring comes.
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Passing these photos on in spite of lack of quality.
The white blur is a Charles River White Goose flapping his wings. The two other figures are Mallard Ducks.
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The entrance to the area is blocked as more starvation tactics, supposedly, I presume, as safety, but they are being deliberately starved by walling off their food for most of the last 33 years, and it is only humane to allow them a little bit of food across the on ramp to Memorial Drive.
When this opening was created, it was definitely negative for the reason why the closing is up now, for safety reasons, but the ongoing starvation tactics definitely changes things. The blocking will be taken down, obviously, when something more harmful is done.
In addition, the Charles River White Geese are careful jaywalkers. They stand on the side of the ramp until it is safe to cross and only then do they cross. The drivers love them, as do all decent human beings. The negative to their crossing is that they are geese. Once they start crossing, they do tend to meander.
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The Charles River White Geese look for what food there is in the remnants of the supposed “amelioration” for the BU Bridge project. This area looks bad. The real bad area is the area that was not damaged by the BU Bridge project. That is the area with the massive destruction of ground vegetation by the Charles River “Conservancy”. The CRC destruction was made worse in the last year by railroad workers and “unidentified” people who came after the railroad workers and made things worse.
Then again, the introduced vegetation that is thriving could very well be yet another example of the outrage at Magazine Beach: bushes which are allowed to grow and grow and grow, blocking movement between the Charles River and Magazine Beach there, and destroying even more of the Destroyed Nesting Area for the permanent residents here.
The area in the middle of the first photo is a small portion of ground vegetation which was neither destroyed by the Charles River “Conservancy” nor by the BU Bridge Project nor by other, various irresponsible workers.
Undestroyed native vegetation, this and others, is consistently the best stuff in the area, and will once again be that when spring comes.
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Passing these photos on in spite of lack of quality.
The white blur is a Charles River White Goose flapping his wings. The two other figures are Mallard Ducks.
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Friday, February 28, 2014
The reality of Harvard University’s Coming New Off Ramp from the Massachusetts Turnpike (I90) over the Charles River in Boston / Cambridge, MA
1. Introduction.
2. Photos of reality.
A. Soldiers Field Road / Storrow Drive.
B. The Massachusetts Turnpike / I90.
C. The Charles River White Geese.
D. A key target.
3. A summary.
1. Introduction.
In our paragraph 3 below, we summarize the outrage by which Cambridge, an irresponsible state agency and their friends are fighting to get an Interstate highway exit to Cambridge for the benefit of Harvard University. This report is a follow on to our report at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/photos-harvards-targeted-off-ramp.html.
The reality is that Cambridge (MA) politics is dominated by a corrupt machine which lies about which side it is on and fools good people into stabbing themselves in the back. They work openly with a well programmed construction lobby fighting for destruction, and the most visible person in the Cambridge machine’s “defense” / fight for destruction of the BU Bridge / Magazine beach area of the Charles River in Cambridge is publicly hand in glove with a very belligerent construction lobby which conducts its meetings on the premises of one of Cambridge’s largest developers.
One of the most destructive parts of the highway lobby lies that it is a “Conservancy” and the supposedly liberal Boston Globe is organizing money contributions to fund this falsely named Charles River “Conservancy.”
2. Photos of reality.
[overview photo]
[photo of connection location.]
There is a mural on the back of the MicroCenter building across from the Magazine Beach playing fields. It memorializes the last fight against massive highway construction in Cambridge. The last time, the destroyers were not lying about which side they are on.
The above are two photos in our recent report. Those photos severely understated the destruction that the Cambridge Machine, through its organization of lies and corrupt tactics is fighting to inflict on Cambridge.
The following photos were taken on February 23, 2014.
The first is a photo of the rail bridge showing the underpass under Memorial Drive and the track area east of the Destroyed Nesting Area and west of the wild area which has seen all its ground vegetation destroyed by the Charles River “Conservancy.”
The irresponsible bicycle activists who meet on the campus of the city’s biggest developer are seeking to widen that bridge and widen that underpass. The lie is that the underpass is being widened for the benefit of these destructive people. The reality is that it is being widened to hold the lanes of the Mass. Pike (I90) off ramp intended to go over the widened rail bridge.
A. Soldiers Field Road / Storrow Drive.
[photo of connection location.]
This photo, the second photo at the top, shows a rail bridge.
Here are some photos from below the rail bridge from beneath and around that rail bridge.
B. The Massachusetts Turnpike / I90.
[photo of connection location.]
I went through a great effort to point out the Mass. Pike straight ahead. Here are photos of the Mass. Pike. The first is taken from the eastern side of the BU Bridge with Commonwealth Avenue to the left. The view is over the traffic lanes of the BU Bridge, showing the Mass. Pike.
The green traffic sign straight ahead is in the background of the above photo.
The following photos are taken from the west side of the BU Bridge. The parking area on the right is straight ahead as you are looking at the photo at the beginning of this section B. The obstructions in the photo are wires of the woven fence next to the sidewalk.
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These photos are, again from Commonwealth Avenue west of the BU Bridge and from the west side of the BU Bridge. They are looking over the Mass. Pike. toward the BU Bridge and toward the rail bridge the Cambridge Machine is fighting to get turned into that off ramp. Notice they never say what they are fighting for.
They just say it is anti Charles River to look at reality. The only “politically correct” thinking, according to the Cambridge Machine is to look at one building which has not been used for 80 years, and pretend everything and everything else does not exist, until the Cambridge Machine pulls corrupt stunts to expand destruction and then that is done as fast as they can get away with.
These photos are, again from Commonwealth Avenue west of the BU Bridge and from the west side of the BU Bridge. They are looking over the Mass. Pike. toward the BU Bridge and toward the rail bridge the Cambridge Machine is fighting to get turned into that off ramp. Notice they never say what they are fighting for.
They just say it is anti Charles River to look at reality. The only “politically correct” thinking, according to the Cambridge Machine is to look at one building which has not been used for 80 years, and pretend everything and everything else does not exist, until the Cambridge Machine pulls corrupt stunts to expand destruction and then that is done as fast as they can get away with.
The eastbound lanes of the Mass. Pike are nearest the camera. As we demonstrated in our last report, extending the existing track straight ahead going over the rail bridge readily connects with the westbound lanes, further from the camera.
All that is necessary to connect to the added lane on the rail bridge is to run a ramp over the field on the far side of the highway. The ramp would run from the east bound lanes over the westbound lanes, and then over the field.
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Here are views of that field from further toward Cambridge on the BU Bridge. You can see the field, the Mass. Pike, and Commonwealth Avenue. This includes views of the Mass. Pike going under Commonwealth Avenue.
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Here are views from Commonwealth Avenue and from BU property.
Clearly there is plenty of room to run that off ramps from this side of the Mass. Pike.
The railroad in these photos is the main line from Downtown Boston to Worcester.
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C. The Charles River White Geese.
The goal of the state bureaucrats is to kill off or drive away all animals living on or near the Charles River. This is stated in their public planning document which the Cambridge Machine treats with the same great respect as they do the belligerently lying state bureaucrat whose key lies got them this far. They implement the latest proposals for expansion of destruction through corrupt tactics.
The Charles River White Geese are offensive to these incompetent bureaucrats and corrupt “activists” because they are living beings who live on the Charles River of their own initiative. They are offensive to the rotters because nobody was paid to install them. They are free. They installed themselves. They are loved by decent human beings.
They are the most visible, most beloved part of a free ecosystem. All pre-existing animals in it are intended to be destroyed.
They have no value to these incompetents. Nobody was paid to put them there.
From the point of view of the rotters, the Charles River White Geese must be destroyed.
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Look carefully, these are the beautiful beings targeted by corrupt tactics and lies. The destroyers cannot succeed with honorable behavior.
D. A key target.
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This is the rail bridge. The goal is to widen it with an addition to its right.
Straight ahead is a very quiet area which has a few minor trains a day. The trainmen are responsible and respectful of the environment and the Charles River White Geese.
The Charles River White Geese use this area heavily in nesting season. The males strut and show off for the females.
The area to the right used to be heavily vegetated. All ground vegetation to the right has been destroyed by the Charles River “Conservancy.” It has not returned. Poisons?
The area to the left is the nesting area. When things have gotten particularly bad, geese have nested next to rails.
Almost all native ground vegetation to the left was destroyed by the Charles River “Conservancy”, or the BU Bridge project. Damage has been magnified by irresponsible workers.
Straight ahead is an underpass for Memorial Drive. The portion under Memorial Drive holds two lanes of traffic.
A highway lobby which gives the appearance of belligerently irresponsible bicyclists is fighting to widen that underpass to three lanes.
The people pulling their strings do not tell them there is a responsible alternative for a bike highway to Memorial Drive. (Photos in the prior report.) The people pulling their strings do not tell them that their goal of connecting to the dangerous bicycle highways on the Boston side is impossible
The people pulling the strings will stab this highway lobby in the back when Harvard has its off ramp in line.
3. A summary.
[overview photo]
[photo of connection location.]
[photo of underpass]
The Cambridge Machine tells people that, if people support the Charles River, they must ignore the problems of the Charles River, especially those created by an irresponsible government of the City of Cambridge and its irresponsible friends in the environmentally incompetent Department of Conservation and Recreation.
The Cambridge Machine has a woman whom it calls its point person in “defending” Magazine Beach, by telling people to ignore Magazine Beach’s very real problems. This woman is an active supporter of the highway lobby, that very destructive bunch of bicycle activist who meet on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of Cambridge’s largest developers. The fake defender was key in the Cambridge Machine’s corrupt abuse of voting process in the Cambridge Machine’s bizarre “vote” to double the area of the problems at Magazine Beach. AND SHE BRAGS OF HER SUPPORT FOR THIS HIGHWAY LOBBY.
A major part of the environmental outrage is Harvard University’s very clear plans to move the Harvard Medical School to the former rail yards and current I90 (Mass. Pike) exit across the Charles River from Magazine Beach to the rail bridge under the BU Bridge and then to Memorial Drive.
A photo of the area is above, along with a photo of the area of connection to I90 / the Mass. Pike. A lot more detail is included in our post on the matter at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/photos-harvards-targeted-off-ramp.html.
The state agency has a goal to kill off all animals in the Charles River Basin. They have cruelly and deliberately been starving their most visible victims, the Charles River White Geese for years. How they have been walling off Magazine Beach with a bizarre wall of bushes.
The Cambridge Machine has explained the bizarre wall on the grounds that their friends are too incompetent to chop down bushes. Then the Cambridge Machine indulged in blatantly corrupt behavior to expand the problems. Part of the corruption clearly encourages the destruction of hundreds of trees which are in the way of moving traffic from the future location of Harvard’s Medical School to Memorial Drive.
Governor Patrick’s bond authorization bill, H3332, provides $24 million for the destruction under the euphemism “Historical Parkway.” A fraudulently named Charles River “Conservancy” has obtained “approvals” claimed to support the outrage through the lie of “underpasses.” They have claimed that the $24 million of destruction is ancillary to the $4 million of “underpasses”, underpasses opposed by the Department of Transportation which would be responsible for the “underpasses.”
Harvard bought their future Medical site shortly after the local public transportation agency, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, demonstrated it is possible to create that off ramp.
The leader of the Cambridge Machine’s fake protection is in the middle of another con game, the con game to the irresponsible bicyclists that they are going to destroy the environment for their benefit and link a bike highway to Boston, a goal which responsible state managers have called impossible.
Key in this particular outrage is that the bicycle activists (meeting on the MIT campus) are being used as stalking horses, primarily to widen the railroad underpass under Memorial Drive. It is only wide enough for two lanes. Harvard needs three, so the bicyclists are being lied to that it is being widened for them.
In our report, we have shown the responsible way to connect the bike highway to Memorial Drive, the route that will be used after Cambridge and their state agency stabs the extremists in the bicyclist lobby in the back.
This report shows much more detail in this irresponsible attack.
2. Photos of reality.
A. Soldiers Field Road / Storrow Drive.
B. The Massachusetts Turnpike / I90.
C. The Charles River White Geese.
D. A key target.
3. A summary.
1. Introduction.
In our paragraph 3 below, we summarize the outrage by which Cambridge, an irresponsible state agency and their friends are fighting to get an Interstate highway exit to Cambridge for the benefit of Harvard University. This report is a follow on to our report at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/photos-harvards-targeted-off-ramp.html.
The reality is that Cambridge (MA) politics is dominated by a corrupt machine which lies about which side it is on and fools good people into stabbing themselves in the back. They work openly with a well programmed construction lobby fighting for destruction, and the most visible person in the Cambridge machine’s “defense” / fight for destruction of the BU Bridge / Magazine beach area of the Charles River in Cambridge is publicly hand in glove with a very belligerent construction lobby which conducts its meetings on the premises of one of Cambridge’s largest developers.
One of the most destructive parts of the highway lobby lies that it is a “Conservancy” and the supposedly liberal Boston Globe is organizing money contributions to fund this falsely named Charles River “Conservancy.”
2. Photos of reality.
[overview photo]
[photo of connection location.]
There is a mural on the back of the MicroCenter building across from the Magazine Beach playing fields. It memorializes the last fight against massive highway construction in Cambridge. The last time, the destroyers were not lying about which side they are on.
The above are two photos in our recent report. Those photos severely understated the destruction that the Cambridge Machine, through its organization of lies and corrupt tactics is fighting to inflict on Cambridge.
The following photos were taken on February 23, 2014.
The first is a photo of the rail bridge showing the underpass under Memorial Drive and the track area east of the Destroyed Nesting Area and west of the wild area which has seen all its ground vegetation destroyed by the Charles River “Conservancy.”
The irresponsible bicycle activists who meet on the campus of the city’s biggest developer are seeking to widen that bridge and widen that underpass. The lie is that the underpass is being widened for the benefit of these destructive people. The reality is that it is being widened to hold the lanes of the Mass. Pike (I90) off ramp intended to go over the widened rail bridge.
A. Soldiers Field Road / Storrow Drive.
[photo of connection location.]
This photo, the second photo at the top, shows a rail bridge.
Here are some photos from below the rail bridge from beneath and around that rail bridge.
B. The Massachusetts Turnpike / I90.
[photo of connection location.]
I went through a great effort to point out the Mass. Pike straight ahead. Here are photos of the Mass. Pike. The first is taken from the eastern side of the BU Bridge with Commonwealth Avenue to the left. The view is over the traffic lanes of the BU Bridge, showing the Mass. Pike.
The green traffic sign straight ahead is in the background of the above photo.
The following photos are taken from the west side of the BU Bridge. The parking area on the right is straight ahead as you are looking at the photo at the beginning of this section B. The obstructions in the photo are wires of the woven fence next to the sidewalk.
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These photos are, again from Commonwealth Avenue west of the BU Bridge and from the west side of the BU Bridge. They are looking over the Mass. Pike. toward the BU Bridge and toward the rail bridge the Cambridge Machine is fighting to get turned into that off ramp. Notice they never say what they are fighting for.
They just say it is anti Charles River to look at reality. The only “politically correct” thinking, according to the Cambridge Machine is to look at one building which has not been used for 80 years, and pretend everything and everything else does not exist, until the Cambridge Machine pulls corrupt stunts to expand destruction and then that is done as fast as they can get away with.
These photos are, again from Commonwealth Avenue west of the BU Bridge and from the west side of the BU Bridge. They are looking over the Mass. Pike. toward the BU Bridge and toward the rail bridge the Cambridge Machine is fighting to get turned into that off ramp. Notice they never say what they are fighting for.
They just say it is anti Charles River to look at reality. The only “politically correct” thinking, according to the Cambridge Machine is to look at one building which has not been used for 80 years, and pretend everything and everything else does not exist, until the Cambridge Machine pulls corrupt stunts to expand destruction and then that is done as fast as they can get away with.
The eastbound lanes of the Mass. Pike are nearest the camera. As we demonstrated in our last report, extending the existing track straight ahead going over the rail bridge readily connects with the westbound lanes, further from the camera.
All that is necessary to connect to the added lane on the rail bridge is to run a ramp over the field on the far side of the highway. The ramp would run from the east bound lanes over the westbound lanes, and then over the field.
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Here are views of that field from further toward Cambridge on the BU Bridge. You can see the field, the Mass. Pike, and Commonwealth Avenue. This includes views of the Mass. Pike going under Commonwealth Avenue.
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Here are views from Commonwealth Avenue and from BU property.
Clearly there is plenty of room to run that off ramps from this side of the Mass. Pike.
The railroad in these photos is the main line from Downtown Boston to Worcester.
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C. The Charles River White Geese.
The goal of the state bureaucrats is to kill off or drive away all animals living on or near the Charles River. This is stated in their public planning document which the Cambridge Machine treats with the same great respect as they do the belligerently lying state bureaucrat whose key lies got them this far. They implement the latest proposals for expansion of destruction through corrupt tactics.
The Charles River White Geese are offensive to these incompetent bureaucrats and corrupt “activists” because they are living beings who live on the Charles River of their own initiative. They are offensive to the rotters because nobody was paid to install them. They are free. They installed themselves. They are loved by decent human beings.
They are the most visible, most beloved part of a free ecosystem. All pre-existing animals in it are intended to be destroyed.
They have no value to these incompetents. Nobody was paid to put them there.
From the point of view of the rotters, the Charles River White Geese must be destroyed.
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Look carefully, these are the beautiful beings targeted by corrupt tactics and lies. The destroyers cannot succeed with honorable behavior.
D. A key target.
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This is the rail bridge. The goal is to widen it with an addition to its right.
Straight ahead is a very quiet area which has a few minor trains a day. The trainmen are responsible and respectful of the environment and the Charles River White Geese.
The Charles River White Geese use this area heavily in nesting season. The males strut and show off for the females.
The area to the right used to be heavily vegetated. All ground vegetation to the right has been destroyed by the Charles River “Conservancy.” It has not returned. Poisons?
The area to the left is the nesting area. When things have gotten particularly bad, geese have nested next to rails.
Almost all native ground vegetation to the left was destroyed by the Charles River “Conservancy”, or the BU Bridge project. Damage has been magnified by irresponsible workers.
Straight ahead is an underpass for Memorial Drive. The portion under Memorial Drive holds two lanes of traffic.
A highway lobby which gives the appearance of belligerently irresponsible bicyclists is fighting to widen that underpass to three lanes.
The people pulling their strings do not tell them there is a responsible alternative for a bike highway to Memorial Drive. (Photos in the prior report.) The people pulling their strings do not tell them that their goal of connecting to the dangerous bicycle highways on the Boston side is impossible
The people pulling the strings will stab this highway lobby in the back when Harvard has its off ramp in line.
3. A summary.
[overview photo]
[photo of connection location.]
[photo of underpass]
The Cambridge Machine tells people that, if people support the Charles River, they must ignore the problems of the Charles River, especially those created by an irresponsible government of the City of Cambridge and its irresponsible friends in the environmentally incompetent Department of Conservation and Recreation.
The Cambridge Machine has a woman whom it calls its point person in “defending” Magazine Beach, by telling people to ignore Magazine Beach’s very real problems. This woman is an active supporter of the highway lobby, that very destructive bunch of bicycle activist who meet on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of Cambridge’s largest developers. The fake defender was key in the Cambridge Machine’s corrupt abuse of voting process in the Cambridge Machine’s bizarre “vote” to double the area of the problems at Magazine Beach. AND SHE BRAGS OF HER SUPPORT FOR THIS HIGHWAY LOBBY.
A major part of the environmental outrage is Harvard University’s very clear plans to move the Harvard Medical School to the former rail yards and current I90 (Mass. Pike) exit across the Charles River from Magazine Beach to the rail bridge under the BU Bridge and then to Memorial Drive.
A photo of the area is above, along with a photo of the area of connection to I90 / the Mass. Pike. A lot more detail is included in our post on the matter at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/photos-harvards-targeted-off-ramp.html.
The state agency has a goal to kill off all animals in the Charles River Basin. They have cruelly and deliberately been starving their most visible victims, the Charles River White Geese for years. How they have been walling off Magazine Beach with a bizarre wall of bushes.
The Cambridge Machine has explained the bizarre wall on the grounds that their friends are too incompetent to chop down bushes. Then the Cambridge Machine indulged in blatantly corrupt behavior to expand the problems. Part of the corruption clearly encourages the destruction of hundreds of trees which are in the way of moving traffic from the future location of Harvard’s Medical School to Memorial Drive.
Governor Patrick’s bond authorization bill, H3332, provides $24 million for the destruction under the euphemism “Historical Parkway.” A fraudulently named Charles River “Conservancy” has obtained “approvals” claimed to support the outrage through the lie of “underpasses.” They have claimed that the $24 million of destruction is ancillary to the $4 million of “underpasses”, underpasses opposed by the Department of Transportation which would be responsible for the “underpasses.”
Harvard bought their future Medical site shortly after the local public transportation agency, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, demonstrated it is possible to create that off ramp.
The leader of the Cambridge Machine’s fake protection is in the middle of another con game, the con game to the irresponsible bicyclists that they are going to destroy the environment for their benefit and link a bike highway to Boston, a goal which responsible state managers have called impossible.
Key in this particular outrage is that the bicycle activists (meeting on the MIT campus) are being used as stalking horses, primarily to widen the railroad underpass under Memorial Drive. It is only wide enough for two lanes. Harvard needs three, so the bicyclists are being lied to that it is being widened for them.
In our report, we have shown the responsible way to connect the bike highway to Memorial Drive, the route that will be used after Cambridge and their state agency stabs the extremists in the bicyclist lobby in the back.
This report shows much more detail in this irresponsible attack.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Harvard University Receives Environmental Approval
Environmental approval was received by Harvard University for projects in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, all very close to the Charles River. It was issued on February 14, 2014, but only announced in the February 26, 2014, edition of the Environmental Monitor, the official state environmental notice publication.
This does not include, as I recall, the future Harvard Medical School site or the various machinations with regard to I90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike), the proposed off ramp to Cambridge and the many environmental outrages on the Cambridge side of the Charles River resulting therefrom.
URL of the approval is http://www.env.state.ma.us/mepa/mepacerts/2014/sc/eir/14069deir.pdf.
It runs 37 pages.
I have not read it and may not for awhile. I am in the middle of a very large follow up report with many photos on concerning Harvard’s / the Cambridge Machine’s off ramp to Memorial Drive.
This does not include, as I recall, the future Harvard Medical School site or the various machinations with regard to I90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike), the proposed off ramp to Cambridge and the many environmental outrages on the Cambridge side of the Charles River resulting therefrom.
URL of the approval is http://www.env.state.ma.us/mepa/mepacerts/2014/sc/eir/14069deir.pdf.
It runs 37 pages.
I have not read it and may not for awhile. I am in the middle of a very large follow up report with many photos on concerning Harvard’s / the Cambridge Machine’s off ramp to Memorial Drive.
Sunday, February 09, 2014
Photos: Harvard’s Targeted Off Ramp Location which looks like the source of a lot of Charles River destruction.
1. Reality proves a bunch of lies false..
A. General.
B. Reality.
2. Nice words on the photos posted last Sunday, and on the Charles River Connectivity Report.
A. Goose Photos, February 2, 2014:
B. Charles River Connectivity:
3. The rest of my photos from Sunday, February 2, 2014.
4. Context.
A. Harvard Medical School relocation.
B. Con game with irresponsible bicycle activists with Cambridge connection..
[2006 aerial photo]
1. Reality proves a bunch of lies false..
A. General.
Last Sunday, February 2, 2012, I took a number of photos on the Charles River.
I published photos more directly associated with the Charles River White Geese at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/photos-charles-river-white-geese-in.html.
Since then, I have been thinking over how best to present the balance of the photos, which have to do with the off ramp from I-90 (Mass. Pike) Harvard is targeting for the railroad bridge under the BU Bridge. This clearly is the source of a lot of the dirty tricks and destruction going on.
On February 5, I passed on to this blog a preliminary state report on Charles River Connectivity. This has been in the works since 2011. In the meetings, the planners scoffed at the “underpass” proposal which is the con game tactic being used to destroy hundreds of trees between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge, four bridges (including the BU Bridge) to the east of the Magazine Beach playing fields. The trees are being destroyed to straighten out Memorial Drive so that it can handled the traffic from the I90 off ramp. The “underpasses” were condemned as environmentally destructive and just more Cambridge nonsense.
The con being used to get that off ramp in is that they are proposing a bike highway for widening the railroad bridge, but the planners at the preliminary meeting I attended in 2011 commented that such a bike highway would be nonsense. The lie is that the proposed bike highway would connect with existing bike highways on the Boston / south side. The planners in 2011 commented that it simply could not be done.
The report I passed on goes into great detail as to improvements needed to improve connectivity of traffic around the Charles River. Neither of these Cambridge Machine pieces of nonsense are recommended, as far as I can see.
That report is at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/charles-river-conductivity-study.html.
On February 7, 2014, I passed on a shortened version of the blog report to the Governor. If you would like to read the shortened version provided the Governor, my comments on the Charles River White Geese facebook page are essentially identical to the communication to the Governor.
Basically I will go through the on the ground photos and then put them into context in the later sections of this report.
B. Reality.
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This shot brings the lies together and proves them lies.
This photo is taken from the Boston end of BU Bridge above the railroad bridge passing under the BU Bridge.
Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road and the Boston side bike highway are visible at the lower part and buildings along Comm. Ave. are visible in the upper part.
The green sign is above the westbound side of the turnpike.
The railroad track is the one track of the Grand Junction railroad route in use in this area. At the bottom of the photo is the vestigial portion of the two track bridge which used to hold a second railroad track.
The plans are to add a third area to the left which will hold one lane, the off lane, carrying traffic from I90 (Mass. Pike) to Cambridge, MA, so that Harvard can build its Medical School / other facilities on the current off ramp from I90 to the Brighton neighborhood of Boston and to Cambridge, MA.
The existing track will become the lane from Cambridge to I90. The empty, former track, area will hold the Grand Junction railroad track.
In the very middle of the photo is a railroad bridge. Under the railroad bridge is Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road. This is the boulevard which follows the southern side of the Charles River in Boston. It is the corresponding highway to Memorial Drive which follows the river on the northern side of the Charles River in Cambridge.
On the left side of the photo is a tree. At the top of the photo are more trees, probably on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Below the trees is a large building, part of the Boston University Campus. Below that large building and partially obscured by the first tree I mentioned is an automobile. Look ahead of the automobile, and you can see that green sign and the highway the automobile is traveling on. The automobile is traveling outbound / westerly on the outbound / westerly side of I90, the Massachusetts Turnpike.
As I said, the track you see is targeted to be the ramp which takes traffic from Cambridge to the Massachusetts Turnpike. All you have to do to connect to the roadway that car is on is to run the ramp straight ahead.
Not really seen is the inbound / eastbound traffic on I90 / the Mass. Pike. That traffic is beyond the car. Blowing up this photo, it is possible that side of the Mass. Pike can almost be seen in the very middle of the shot. On the other hand, I might be imagining that.
All that is necessary to connect that traffic to the inbound ramp to Cambridge which is proposed to the left of the railroad track you see is to construct a roadway from the eastbound side of the Mass. Pike over the westbound side of the Mass. Pike.
When the Mass. Bay Transportation Authority proposed this connection, the MBTA commented that this arrangement would only accommodate traffic between Cambridge and areas west.
Within months, Harvard bought the off ramps from the Mass. Pike to Brighton and Cambridge. Within months a U turn was approved in the area to the right of this photo allowing traffic going west on the Mass. Pike (I90) to turn around and go east, and thus to make this off ramp viable for traffic going between Cambridge and both directions on the Mass. Pike (I90).
2. Nice words on the photos posted last Sunday, and on the Charles River Connectivity Report.
Anjell Benjanian commented:
A. Goose Photos, February 2, 2014:
Yes, they r well and alive!--- Made my day Robert, and thankssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
B. Charles River Connectivity:
This helps a bit or a lot in me knowing more, but, I am still not really clear. But so good of u Robert, to have done this much work finding out about it.-- thanks and more thanks, and want to know more about the well being of the geese.-- thank u VERY MUCH
Ed: The planners who wrote the Charles River Connectivity report noted the lack of connection between the BU Bridge and the bike highways on that side of the Charles River. They did not recommend any connection. Verbally they called the connection impossible.
But the Cambridge Machine is lying to destructive bike activists, people they will shaft when / if that off ramp is built. Then the bike highway will connect to Memorial Drive by way of the L on Vassar Street which comes close to the tracks where the bike highway will meet Harvard’s off ramp, if at all.
3. The rest of my photos from Sunday, February 2, 2014.
[2006 aerial photo]
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The concrete (?) running up the left side of the photo is the eastern sidewalk of the BU Bridge. The metallic line to its right is decorative, and strong protection for pedestrians.
Straight ahead is a large building which contained a Cadillac - Olds dealer for half a century or more. It is now owned by Boston University. Directly below the Cadillac Olds building is Commonwealth Avenue. At this point, both Commonwealth Avenue and the BU Bridge are constructed on air rights above I90 (the Mass. Pike). The brownish coloration is a field which has been left to nature since the Mass. Pike construction in the 1970's. The Mass. Pike runs through this area. The change in color between the field and Commonwealth Avenue is the Mass. Pike.
That field would be used for construction of the ramp from the inbound / eastern direction of the Mass. Pike to the inbound / northern ramp off the Mass. Pike to Cambridge.
Below the Grand Junction is the Boston Side bike highway the Cambridge Machine is tempting the destructive bike activists with. There are signs in the area of that bike highway warning of the muggings which have occurred in the area at night.
The supposed reason for the massive destruction of environment including trees in Governor Patrick’s House Bill H3332 (Historic Parkways) is to duplicate this dangerous area and destroy hundreds of trees in the process (while keeping the destruction as secret as possible).
I do not have the slightest idea what the barge is there for.
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The mostly frozen Charles River is shown against the Boston shore.
The monstrous buildings straight ahead are new Boston University dormitories.
The line at the foot of the buildings is the Mass. Turnpike. This segment of the Mass. Pike is the only portion of I90 built in Boston on air rights.
Below the Mass. Pike is Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road.
If you follow the river up to the bend, you and see vehicles on Soldiers Field / Storrow. If you look above it and below the brown building to the left of the dormitories, you can see the elevated Massachusetts Turnpike / I-90.
The thin structure at the very right is probably in the area where Harvard now proposes to build a massive expansion, an area larger than Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, purchased by Harvard in 2004 / 2005. This includes off ramps from the Mass. Pike to Brighton and Cambridge.
I90 is depressed from its eastern extremity at Boston Logan Airport to the Commonwealth Avenue / BU Bridge intersection. It rises above the rail yards which Harvard now owns and intends to use for the Harvard Medical School. The comparison to adjacent properties varies after the rail yards.
The next bridge across the Charles River west from the BU Bridge is the River Street Bridge. River Street is called Cambridge Street in Boston. Cambridge Street goes over the Mass. Pike which is at ground level under and beyond Cambridge Street and eventually is raised again.
4. Context.
A. Harvard Medical School relocation.
[Aerial Photo / 2006 / Harvard Med - DNA]
This photo is a cropped and marked up version of a state photo in a 2006 environmental report. I have copied it twice above for reference.
The Charles River is the blackish (black and white photo) expanse running from the central portion of the right side of the photo to the top of the photo about a third of the way from the far left.
On the left side of the photo, occupying all of the photo except the bottom is what I understand is now an empty railroad yard along with the existing exits from I90 to Cambridge and the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. The area is much larger than is shown.
Harvard’s key purchase in this area from the state occurred just months after a report from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority determined that the railroad bridge under the BU Bridge could be widened to add a lane so that the widened rail bridge would contain a two lane off ramp and one railroad track. The continuing railroad track connects this purchased area to railroad storage associated with Boston’s North Station.
Harvard’s holdings are larger than Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.
Harvard has attempted to get the state to create a subway spur from the Red Line subway stop in Harvard square (further to the left and above the Charles River) to a location near the Harvard / Longwood Medical Center in the Fenway area of Boston. The proposal would connect the subway spur to a supposed bus tunnel proposed to connect from a location near Boston’s Kenmore Square (Green Line Subway) to Louis Pasteur and Longwood and then to a location near the Ruggles Station (Orange Line subway). I have done an extended analysis of this proposal on this blog. The Louis Pasteur Station would provide excellent connections to the Longwood / Harvard Hospitals.
Harvard has announced intention to move the Harvard School of Public Health to its holdings in Allston. Clearly this is being done to allow hospital expansion in place of the Harvard School of Public Health. In an even more obvious location for Harvard Hospital expansion is the Harvard Medical School which, in turn, is also very close to the Louis Pasteur stop. The Harvard Medical School currently abuts and is to the east of the Harvard School of Public Health,.
Clearly, Harvard’s holdings in Allston are targeted for the relocation of the Harvard Medical School, and Harvard’s Red Line spur is intended to have the state provide a shuttle service from the relocated Harvard Medical School to give its medical students ready access to the Harvard Hospitals in the Longwood / Harvard Medical Area.
B. Con game with irresponsible bicycle activists with Cambridge connection..
I have done a detailed photo essay on the responsible way to construct the (according to the Cambridge Machine) sanctified north south bike route.
Looking at this aerial photo, there is a thick highway running south of the Charles River from the BU Bridge to the future Harvard Medical School area. The BU Bridge is the nearly vertical crossing of the Charles River toward the right side of the photo. It is marked, as is the railroad bridge below it.
Compare this aerial photo to photo 0525 which I analyzed above.
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On the right hand side of the aerial photo is an “M” which is the beginning of “Memorial Drive” on the less cropped version of this aerial photo. Directly above the “M” is a street whose segment in this photo is L shaped. This is Vassar Street.
The railroad crosses the bridge in almost a straight line and comes very close to the point of the L of Vassar Street.
The corrupt situation in Cambridge is telling irresponsible bike activists that Harvard’s off ramp over the railroad bridge is their future bike highway. The responsible route for the bike highway is to connect to Memorial Drive by taking a narrow strip connecting the point of the L to the railroad.
[2013 / 05 / 05-17A / 04 15 Vassar Street]
This is the L of Vassar Street. The white building fronts on Vassar Street and backs to the railroad. The responsible place for the bike path is the near side of the white building.
The following photo is of the railroad side of the white building.
[2013 / 05 / 05-17A / 07 18 Gd Jctn, Bk Hwy]]
That is the route the con artists will “suddenly” discover when Harvard decides to go forward with the off ramp over a widened railroad bridge, widened to “allow” the stalking horse bike highway. The reality, however, is not widening the railroad bridge for the bike highway because the promise is impossible of connection to the bike highway on the Boston side, so the bridge will not be widened as part of the bike highway.
The real con is the Memorial Drive railroad underpass. Memorial Drive starts at the right, with that M on top of it and runs through the photo basically parallel to the Charles River, leaving the photo just to the right of the Charles River. The underpass will hold two railroad tracks. It is not enough for the 2 lane off ramp and one railroad track. It is also not wide enough for the bike highway and two railroad tracks. The con is to widen the underpass “for the” bike highway which would then do even more destruction to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.
This is the current underpass viewed from next to the Destroyed Nesting Area.
[2013 / 06 DNA / 06-23A / 0206]
The above three photos are part of the much more detailed photo analysis which I published concerning the fraud being inflicted on the irresponsible bike activist highway lobby.
The precursor to this highway is the northern of the crushed gravel highways which has been built in the Destroyed Nesting Area, photo taken on January 11, this year. The lower part of the gravel was wantonly dumped by workers associated with the DCR..
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This bike route is much longer, much more time consuming and much more expensive than just cutting over to Vassar Street, but the destructive bicyclist highway lobby are being promised a bike highway over the Charles, and this route will be the “Oh, I am so sorry” alternative, the first shafting of some destructive people.
The second shafting will be to put the bike highway where it belongs.
A. General.
B. Reality.
2. Nice words on the photos posted last Sunday, and on the Charles River Connectivity Report.
A. Goose Photos, February 2, 2014:
B. Charles River Connectivity:
3. The rest of my photos from Sunday, February 2, 2014.
4. Context.
A. Harvard Medical School relocation.
B. Con game with irresponsible bicycle activists with Cambridge connection..
[2006 aerial photo]
1. Reality proves a bunch of lies false..
A. General.
Last Sunday, February 2, 2012, I took a number of photos on the Charles River.
I published photos more directly associated with the Charles River White Geese at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/photos-charles-river-white-geese-in.html.
Since then, I have been thinking over how best to present the balance of the photos, which have to do with the off ramp from I-90 (Mass. Pike) Harvard is targeting for the railroad bridge under the BU Bridge. This clearly is the source of a lot of the dirty tricks and destruction going on.
On February 5, I passed on to this blog a preliminary state report on Charles River Connectivity. This has been in the works since 2011. In the meetings, the planners scoffed at the “underpass” proposal which is the con game tactic being used to destroy hundreds of trees between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge, four bridges (including the BU Bridge) to the east of the Magazine Beach playing fields. The trees are being destroyed to straighten out Memorial Drive so that it can handled the traffic from the I90 off ramp. The “underpasses” were condemned as environmentally destructive and just more Cambridge nonsense.
The con being used to get that off ramp in is that they are proposing a bike highway for widening the railroad bridge, but the planners at the preliminary meeting I attended in 2011 commented that such a bike highway would be nonsense. The lie is that the proposed bike highway would connect with existing bike highways on the Boston / south side. The planners in 2011 commented that it simply could not be done.
The report I passed on goes into great detail as to improvements needed to improve connectivity of traffic around the Charles River. Neither of these Cambridge Machine pieces of nonsense are recommended, as far as I can see.
That report is at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/charles-river-conductivity-study.html.
On February 7, 2014, I passed on a shortened version of the blog report to the Governor. If you would like to read the shortened version provided the Governor, my comments on the Charles River White Geese facebook page are essentially identical to the communication to the Governor.
Basically I will go through the on the ground photos and then put them into context in the later sections of this report.
B. Reality.
[0524]
This shot brings the lies together and proves them lies.
This photo is taken from the Boston end of BU Bridge above the railroad bridge passing under the BU Bridge.
Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road and the Boston side bike highway are visible at the lower part and buildings along Comm. Ave. are visible in the upper part.
The green sign is above the westbound side of the turnpike.
The railroad track is the one track of the Grand Junction railroad route in use in this area. At the bottom of the photo is the vestigial portion of the two track bridge which used to hold a second railroad track.
The plans are to add a third area to the left which will hold one lane, the off lane, carrying traffic from I90 (Mass. Pike) to Cambridge, MA, so that Harvard can build its Medical School / other facilities on the current off ramp from I90 to the Brighton neighborhood of Boston and to Cambridge, MA.
The existing track will become the lane from Cambridge to I90. The empty, former track, area will hold the Grand Junction railroad track.
In the very middle of the photo is a railroad bridge. Under the railroad bridge is Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road. This is the boulevard which follows the southern side of the Charles River in Boston. It is the corresponding highway to Memorial Drive which follows the river on the northern side of the Charles River in Cambridge.
On the left side of the photo is a tree. At the top of the photo are more trees, probably on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Below the trees is a large building, part of the Boston University Campus. Below that large building and partially obscured by the first tree I mentioned is an automobile. Look ahead of the automobile, and you can see that green sign and the highway the automobile is traveling on. The automobile is traveling outbound / westerly on the outbound / westerly side of I90, the Massachusetts Turnpike.
As I said, the track you see is targeted to be the ramp which takes traffic from Cambridge to the Massachusetts Turnpike. All you have to do to connect to the roadway that car is on is to run the ramp straight ahead.
Not really seen is the inbound / eastbound traffic on I90 / the Mass. Pike. That traffic is beyond the car. Blowing up this photo, it is possible that side of the Mass. Pike can almost be seen in the very middle of the shot. On the other hand, I might be imagining that.
All that is necessary to connect that traffic to the inbound ramp to Cambridge which is proposed to the left of the railroad track you see is to construct a roadway from the eastbound side of the Mass. Pike over the westbound side of the Mass. Pike.
When the Mass. Bay Transportation Authority proposed this connection, the MBTA commented that this arrangement would only accommodate traffic between Cambridge and areas west.
Within months, Harvard bought the off ramps from the Mass. Pike to Brighton and Cambridge. Within months a U turn was approved in the area to the right of this photo allowing traffic going west on the Mass. Pike (I90) to turn around and go east, and thus to make this off ramp viable for traffic going between Cambridge and both directions on the Mass. Pike (I90).
2. Nice words on the photos posted last Sunday, and on the Charles River Connectivity Report.
Anjell Benjanian commented:
A. Goose Photos, February 2, 2014:
Yes, they r well and alive!--- Made my day Robert, and thankssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
B. Charles River Connectivity:
This helps a bit or a lot in me knowing more, but, I am still not really clear. But so good of u Robert, to have done this much work finding out about it.-- thanks and more thanks, and want to know more about the well being of the geese.-- thank u VERY MUCH
Ed: The planners who wrote the Charles River Connectivity report noted the lack of connection between the BU Bridge and the bike highways on that side of the Charles River. They did not recommend any connection. Verbally they called the connection impossible.
But the Cambridge Machine is lying to destructive bike activists, people they will shaft when / if that off ramp is built. Then the bike highway will connect to Memorial Drive by way of the L on Vassar Street which comes close to the tracks where the bike highway will meet Harvard’s off ramp, if at all.
3. The rest of my photos from Sunday, February 2, 2014.
[2006 aerial photo]
[0522]
The concrete (?) running up the left side of the photo is the eastern sidewalk of the BU Bridge. The metallic line to its right is decorative, and strong protection for pedestrians.
Straight ahead is a large building which contained a Cadillac - Olds dealer for half a century or more. It is now owned by Boston University. Directly below the Cadillac Olds building is Commonwealth Avenue. At this point, both Commonwealth Avenue and the BU Bridge are constructed on air rights above I90 (the Mass. Pike). The brownish coloration is a field which has been left to nature since the Mass. Pike construction in the 1970's. The Mass. Pike runs through this area. The change in color between the field and Commonwealth Avenue is the Mass. Pike.
That field would be used for construction of the ramp from the inbound / eastern direction of the Mass. Pike to the inbound / northern ramp off the Mass. Pike to Cambridge.
Below the Grand Junction is the Boston Side bike highway the Cambridge Machine is tempting the destructive bike activists with. There are signs in the area of that bike highway warning of the muggings which have occurred in the area at night.
The supposed reason for the massive destruction of environment including trees in Governor Patrick’s House Bill H3332 (Historic Parkways) is to duplicate this dangerous area and destroy hundreds of trees in the process (while keeping the destruction as secret as possible).
I do not have the slightest idea what the barge is there for.
[0525]
The mostly frozen Charles River is shown against the Boston shore.
The monstrous buildings straight ahead are new Boston University dormitories.
The line at the foot of the buildings is the Mass. Turnpike. This segment of the Mass. Pike is the only portion of I90 built in Boston on air rights.
Below the Mass. Pike is Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road.
If you follow the river up to the bend, you and see vehicles on Soldiers Field / Storrow. If you look above it and below the brown building to the left of the dormitories, you can see the elevated Massachusetts Turnpike / I-90.
The thin structure at the very right is probably in the area where Harvard now proposes to build a massive expansion, an area larger than Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, purchased by Harvard in 2004 / 2005. This includes off ramps from the Mass. Pike to Brighton and Cambridge.
I90 is depressed from its eastern extremity at Boston Logan Airport to the Commonwealth Avenue / BU Bridge intersection. It rises above the rail yards which Harvard now owns and intends to use for the Harvard Medical School. The comparison to adjacent properties varies after the rail yards.
The next bridge across the Charles River west from the BU Bridge is the River Street Bridge. River Street is called Cambridge Street in Boston. Cambridge Street goes over the Mass. Pike which is at ground level under and beyond Cambridge Street and eventually is raised again.
4. Context.
A. Harvard Medical School relocation.
[Aerial Photo / 2006 / Harvard Med - DNA]
This photo is a cropped and marked up version of a state photo in a 2006 environmental report. I have copied it twice above for reference.
The Charles River is the blackish (black and white photo) expanse running from the central portion of the right side of the photo to the top of the photo about a third of the way from the far left.
On the left side of the photo, occupying all of the photo except the bottom is what I understand is now an empty railroad yard along with the existing exits from I90 to Cambridge and the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. The area is much larger than is shown.
Harvard’s key purchase in this area from the state occurred just months after a report from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority determined that the railroad bridge under the BU Bridge could be widened to add a lane so that the widened rail bridge would contain a two lane off ramp and one railroad track. The continuing railroad track connects this purchased area to railroad storage associated with Boston’s North Station.
Harvard’s holdings are larger than Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.
Harvard has attempted to get the state to create a subway spur from the Red Line subway stop in Harvard square (further to the left and above the Charles River) to a location near the Harvard / Longwood Medical Center in the Fenway area of Boston. The proposal would connect the subway spur to a supposed bus tunnel proposed to connect from a location near Boston’s Kenmore Square (Green Line Subway) to Louis Pasteur and Longwood and then to a location near the Ruggles Station (Orange Line subway). I have done an extended analysis of this proposal on this blog. The Louis Pasteur Station would provide excellent connections to the Longwood / Harvard Hospitals.
Harvard has announced intention to move the Harvard School of Public Health to its holdings in Allston. Clearly this is being done to allow hospital expansion in place of the Harvard School of Public Health. In an even more obvious location for Harvard Hospital expansion is the Harvard Medical School which, in turn, is also very close to the Louis Pasteur stop. The Harvard Medical School currently abuts and is to the east of the Harvard School of Public Health,.
Clearly, Harvard’s holdings in Allston are targeted for the relocation of the Harvard Medical School, and Harvard’s Red Line spur is intended to have the state provide a shuttle service from the relocated Harvard Medical School to give its medical students ready access to the Harvard Hospitals in the Longwood / Harvard Medical Area.
B. Con game with irresponsible bicycle activists with Cambridge connection..
I have done a detailed photo essay on the responsible way to construct the (according to the Cambridge Machine) sanctified north south bike route.
Looking at this aerial photo, there is a thick highway running south of the Charles River from the BU Bridge to the future Harvard Medical School area. The BU Bridge is the nearly vertical crossing of the Charles River toward the right side of the photo. It is marked, as is the railroad bridge below it.
Compare this aerial photo to photo 0525 which I analyzed above.
[0525]
On the right hand side of the aerial photo is an “M” which is the beginning of “Memorial Drive” on the less cropped version of this aerial photo. Directly above the “M” is a street whose segment in this photo is L shaped. This is Vassar Street.
The railroad crosses the bridge in almost a straight line and comes very close to the point of the L of Vassar Street.
The corrupt situation in Cambridge is telling irresponsible bike activists that Harvard’s off ramp over the railroad bridge is their future bike highway. The responsible route for the bike highway is to connect to Memorial Drive by taking a narrow strip connecting the point of the L to the railroad.
[2013 / 05 / 05-17A / 04 15 Vassar Street]
This is the L of Vassar Street. The white building fronts on Vassar Street and backs to the railroad. The responsible place for the bike path is the near side of the white building.
The following photo is of the railroad side of the white building.
[2013 / 05 / 05-17A / 07 18 Gd Jctn, Bk Hwy]]
That is the route the con artists will “suddenly” discover when Harvard decides to go forward with the off ramp over a widened railroad bridge, widened to “allow” the stalking horse bike highway. The reality, however, is not widening the railroad bridge for the bike highway because the promise is impossible of connection to the bike highway on the Boston side, so the bridge will not be widened as part of the bike highway.
The real con is the Memorial Drive railroad underpass. Memorial Drive starts at the right, with that M on top of it and runs through the photo basically parallel to the Charles River, leaving the photo just to the right of the Charles River. The underpass will hold two railroad tracks. It is not enough for the 2 lane off ramp and one railroad track. It is also not wide enough for the bike highway and two railroad tracks. The con is to widen the underpass “for the” bike highway which would then do even more destruction to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.
This is the current underpass viewed from next to the Destroyed Nesting Area.
[2013 / 06 DNA / 06-23A / 0206]
The above three photos are part of the much more detailed photo analysis which I published concerning the fraud being inflicted on the irresponsible bike activist highway lobby.
The precursor to this highway is the northern of the crushed gravel highways which has been built in the Destroyed Nesting Area, photo taken on January 11, this year. The lower part of the gravel was wantonly dumped by workers associated with the DCR..
[0505]
This bike route is much longer, much more time consuming and much more expensive than just cutting over to Vassar Street, but the destructive bicyclist highway lobby are being promised a bike highway over the Charles, and this route will be the “Oh, I am so sorry” alternative, the first shafting of some destructive people.
The second shafting will be to put the bike highway where it belongs.
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