Charles River, MA, USA after the Hurricane, continued

Charles River, MA, USA after the Hurricane, continued.

I visited the Charles River White Geese on Saturday, July 5, 2014.  I took a bunch of photos.

I published many photos yesterday at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/charles-river-ma-usa-after-hurricane.html.  Here are a few more.

The Charles River White Geese enjoyed their day.

My next report will not be as pleasant, documentation, once again, of heartless animal abuse by so many hyprocrites who constantly proclaim themselves holier than thou, and are very blatant liars..

Charles River, MA, USA after the Hurricane.

Charles River, MA, USA after the Hurricane.

I visited the Charles River White Geese on Saturday, July 5, 2014.  I took a bunch of photos.

The Charles River White Geese enjoyed their day.

Here are some of my photos.

Mass. Pike (I90) rearrangement on the Charles River, Boston, MA, USA. What about the Rail Yard?

1. Summary.
2. Facebook:  Mass. Pike (I90): Rapid Transit or another Cambridge con? [July 1, 2014 condensation of blog post]
3. James Tighe response, 11:07am Jul 1.  What is going on in the rail yard?
4. Elaboration.  What about the rail yard?


1. Summary.

On June 30, I reported on Rapid Transit possibilities next to the Mass. Pike (I90) area on the Boston side of the Charles River.

These are relevant because Harvard’s empire building on the Boston side are key sources of a lot of the environmental destruction on the Cambridge side and in the Charles River, either directly or through benefits for coconspirators.

Additionally, the Cambridge Machine is maneuvering the rearrangement of the Mass. Pike to maximize heartless behavior on the Cambridge side, plus to prevent a responsible transit possibility on the Boston side.

These reports are republished usually in condensations with links on facebook and in an email newsletter.

The biggest horror I am dealing with in these reports is the massive complexity of the maneuverings.  I must, of necessity, leave a lot out of each report or turn each report into a treatise.

The biggest horror, other than the heartless animal abuse and environmental destruction, I am dealing with in these reports is the massive complexity of the maneuverings.  I must, of necessity, leave a lot out of each report or turn each report into a treatise.

Below is the condensation I published on facebook of the June 30 report, followed by an excellent question and my response to the question with writing slightly cleaned up.

To put things into perspective, here are my two maps of the maneuverings on the Boston side, the modified aerial photo I have been using for some time followed my modification of MassDOT’s areal photo.  The MassDOT map was attached to my facebook condensation.

The rail yards mentioned are at the core of the latter photo, and on the far left in the former photo.


2. Facebook:  Mass. Pike (I90): Rapid Transit or another Cambridge con? [July 1, 2014 condensation of blog post]

Green Line A is the workable way for rapid transit to service Harvard’s new Medical School location.

Here is a detailed posting of it.  If you have problem with the fine print, please read the blog analysis at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/re-mass-pike-i90-rapid-transit-or.html.

Green Line A is the way to connect the Harvard Medical School to the world.  On one end, it would connect to the existing Green Line B / Commonwealth Avenue and then to Kenmore Square.  On the other end, it would connect to the existing Harvard Square Station by a tunnel which continues to exist but which has not been in active use since the Red Line went beyond Harvard Square.  It was intended to connect to the then subway storage yards, which are now Harvard’s JF Kennedy School of Government and the Charles Hotel complex, and the JF Kennedy Park on Memorial Drive.

At last Wednesday’s meeting of the MassDOT committee, the Cambridge Machine provided a detailed proposal to move the Mass. Pike on top of the area needed for Green Line A.  The proposal would fit in exactly with all the outrages the Machine is fighting for on the Cambridge side.

Naturally, they neglected to mention their environmental outrages and heartless animal abuse.

After all, the con is the con.


3. James Tighe response, 11:07am Jul 1.  What is going on in the rail yard?

Hum! so they cleaned out the rail Yard for the green line..........Tell me they didn't have a long range plan and what else is coming in that plan we don't know about?


4. Elaboration.  What about the rail yard?

Hello Jim,

Thanks for an excellent question.

This is a situation I have lived with for more than a decade with regard to the Charles River and for 30 years on the transportation aspects.  It is always amazing how many issues lie beneath the surface in my reports.  My biggest difficulty in writing these reports up is to edit down enough to make the post readable.

In 2004, the MBTA did a study with a silly basis that proved an off ramp can be built from the Mass. Pike to Cambridge by way of the Grand Junction railway bridge.

About four months later, Harvard University bought the rail yards and the Mass. Pike and the Mass. Pike exit for use for a relocation of its Medical School and related projects.  The area is larger than Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.

Who knows the real reason, but the railroad has moved the rail yard operation to Worcester.

There have been extended discussions concerning linking the various subway lines together by a ring subway line, the Urban Ring.  Harvard got its Allston holdings added to the discussion.

Harvard has since floated the idea of building a Red Line spur by very expensive deep bore technique out of Harvard Station to their Medical School to come, to a very expensive tunnel which has been floated in the Urban Ring discussions.  The latter tunnel ALMOST connects Ruggles Station, the Longwood Medical Area (Longwood and Louis Pasteur) and Kenmore Station.

That tunnel is rather clearly another con.  It would appear that the feds like buses this week.  So the planners are calling this portion of the Urban Ring subway system a bus tunnel.  It can very easily be extended in two directions to make it a spur off the Orange Line to connect Kenmore and the Harvard Medical Area to Downtown Boston as an Orange Line spur by way of Ruggles Station.

Harvard’s Red Line Spur would connect to this tunnel.

Green Line A is, as near as I can gather, my idea.

I have two years on the ground railroad management experience.

I am a major part of the Urban Ring Subway discussions because I proposed the Kenmore Charles River Crossing five years before it was made a alternative in the Urban Ring subway system.  It looks like the winning alternative and would be made the only official alternative if an Orange Line spur is built to Kenmore.

I do not recall, and I do not think, that this Green Line A alternative has been presented in the official discussions.

The reality is that Green Line A would be much less expensive than Harvard’s Red Line spur and it would be much more functional in the mass transit system.

Harvard would, for a massive amount of money, create an extremely expensive and essentially private Red Line route for, primarily, its own benefit.

The only stop in the Allston area would be for the Medical School.


By contrast, the neighborhood needs rapid transit.  Green Line A would provide five new stops including two in the actual residential neighborhood, on a rapid transit line connecting the Allston neighborhood to Harvard Station and the Red Line, and to Kenmore Station and the various Green Line branches.

Much bigger public benefits, much less bucks.

The reality, however, is that Harvard’s wants its expensive AND ESSENTIALLY PRIVATE Red Line spur and Harvard has very major say, to put it mildly, in the Cambridge Machine machinations.  Plus the rest of the destruction on the Charles very clearly fits into Harvard’s benefit or Harvard’s doling out rewards to Harvard’s fellow travelers.

The moving of the Mass. Pike proposed by the Cambridge Machine would destroy Green Line A by blocking its route in the viaduct area.  It would create a situation where there is “no choice” but Harvard’s expensive deep bore PRIVATE SUBWAY proposal.

Wow, that would be long for the blog which is where it will wind up.

Thank you for an excellent question.  I hope I have been communicative.

PS: As I said, I am constantly editing down to prevent overwhelming.  There are a lot of maps I can add to the above discussion.  They have been provided on the blog with links on facebook.

Mass. Pike (I90): Rapid Transit or another Cambridge con?

1. Green Line A, more detail.
2. Cambridge Machine proposes the Mass. Pike be rebuilt where Green Line A should go.


1. Green Line A, more detail.

Green Line A is the workable way for rapid transit to service Harvard’s new Medical School location.

It is the way to connect the Harvard Medical School to the world.  On one end, it would connect to the existing Green Line B / Commonwealth Avenue and then to Kenmore Square.  On the other end, it would connect to the existing Harvard Square Station by a tunnel which continues to exist but which has not been in active use since the Red Line went beyond Harvard Square.  It was intended to connect to the then subway storage yards, which are now Harvard’s JF Kennedy School of Government and the Charles Hotel complex, and the JF Kennedy Park on Memorial Drive.

Green Line A must fit between the Mass. Pike viaduct (soon to be torn down) and Boston University.

Green Line A could create stops at BU West, the new Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Business School, but the key stops for the neighborhood point of view would be two on North Harvard Street, one at Cambridge Street, the second at Franklin Street or Western Avenue.

I am going to have to do work on this off computer, but, here is the MassDOT map of the future Harvard Medical School.  The viaduct is the upper right area.  The middle is the future Harvard Medical School plus whatever gets created in this rearrangement.  The left side of this triangle is Cambridge Street, Allston, MA.  The small structures to the left of Cambridge Street are the residential neighborhood.

I handed out my previous map to the MassDOT committee last Wednesday evening.  It shows Green Line A placed in the right side of the viaduct, where the Cambridge Machine now proposes to move the viaduct, thus preventing Green Line A.  The better concept for Green Line A (soon to be placed on paper) would run Green Line A through the Medical School area to the street which hits Cambridge Street perpendicularly pretty close to the middle point of the neighborhood.  This is North Harvard Street.

The tall buildings next to the viaduct are Boston University’s new dorms.  That would be the first stop on the Green Line A.  Somewhere in the middle of the Harvard Medical School area would be the second stop.  After leaving the dorms, Green Line A would go underground and stay underground.  This would be “cut and cover”.  Basically, it would be created by digging an open trench for the subway line and then covering the trench over with highway or a building.

Storage for cars used on this line should be created parallel to plans for storage of trains servicing South Station.

The third stop would come at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Cambridge Street

Following North Harvard Street to the left, just before it goes off the map, it strikes another street which comes up from the lower right.  This is Franklin Street and is a reasonable square abutting the neighborhood.  This should be the second neighborhood stop.

Proceeding off this map, North Harvard Street goes to Harvard Square.  It travels, across Western Avenue, past the soon to be destroyed Charlesview formerly affordable housing complex, and between Harvard Stadium and Harvard Business School.

Green Line A should turn left just before Harvard Stadium, and then turn right behind Harvard Stadium, proceeding upwards toward Harvard Square and that still existing tunnel.  It would go under the Charles River.

A stop should be created for Harvard Business School / Harvard Stadium under North Harvard Street where Green Line A turns.

Behind Harvard Stadium should be created an underground layover area for trains waiting to go into Harvard Station.  A small yard could be created in this area to provide flexibility in access to the stump end at Harvard Station, all underground.

2. Cambridge Machine proposes the Mass. Pike be rebuilt where Green Line A should go.

A very professional engineering type presented this package to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation committee last Wednesday night.

The proposal would move the Mass. Pike viaduct on top of the area needed for Green Line A.

The result, of course, would be to shaft North Allston by restricting rapid transit to the future Harvard Medical School.  Because Green Line A could not exist.  The viaduct would be moved where Green Line A needs to be.

By contrast, Harvard’s Gold Plated Red Line extension would only have one stop, for the Harvard Medical School, between Harvard Square and, possibly, the Harvard / Longwood hospitals, although another stop might be proposed near the Fenway Park stop of the Green Line D (Riverside) Branch.

The biggie, of course in the Cambridge Machine proposal would be the environmental destruction in Cambridge associated with that proposal, but that NEVER gets mentioned.

After all, the con is the con.

Cambridge, MA, USA City Council: Attack, lies of holiness, beautiful victims.

1. General.

2. Beautiful victims on June 29, 2014.

3. Cambridge City Council claims holiness against the Other Guy.  How dare circus proprietors who are less vile than the Cambridge City Council misbehave!

4. Repeat of response to Cambridge City Council lie that they have no responsibilities on the Charles River.

1. General.

The Cambridge City Council destroys, destroys, destroys and lies that it is holier than thou by yelling at the other guy.

Cambridge killed acres of resident animals when it destroyed acres of the irreplaceable Alewife Reservation.

Cambridge joins the state bureaucrats in their goal of killing off or driving away all resident animals on the Charles in multiple ways.  The most visible victims are the Charles River White Geese, but many, many more victims are not as visible.  Deliberate starvation with a bizarre introduced wall of vegetation on a Charles River where ALL bordering vegetation is destroyed twice a year unless it is starving beautiful, valuable animals.

The outrages in the Magazine Beach / BU Bridge area are highly visible and highly ignored.  While this reprehensible body destroys, destroys, destroy on the Charles River , it loudly claim it has nothing to do with the Charles River, while yelling at circus proprietors who are only passing through Cambridge on their way elsewhere.

These extreme examples of holiness are blatant lies to fool people into thinking Cambridge has a responsible city government.

So the outrage on the Cambridge Common is going forward, no trees yet.  The outrages on the Charles River are allowed to stay in place protected by hypocritical company unions.  The Cambridge City Council has its own attacks on the Charles pending on the Grand Junction while designating to the Cambridge Machine the dirty work on the Mass. Pike and in House Bill H4099 destroying hundreds of trees and animal habitat from the Charles River White Geese’s Destroyed Nesting Area at the BU Bridge to the Longfellow Bridge, the second bridge to the east.

And one of their Cambridge Machine Groups is fighting in the Mass. Pike discussions to make things worse in Cambridge.  That one probably tomorrow.

2. Beautiful victims on June 29, 2014.

The Cambridge City Council is starving the Charles River White Geese by walling off their feeding place for most of the last 33 years with a bizarre wall of introduced vegetation which they paid for and do not want to know about.  Their coconspirators are joining in multiple attacks on them in their tiny foodless prison for which the Cambridge City Council is working on plans to make worse.

The first is an extended family shot, Grandma Brown Beauty, a child / grandchild, a baby.  The geese are very well organized.  Whenever they have a baby, as much as they can, they have three adults protecting the baby, the parents and a babysitter.  This babysitter is Brown Beauty, the daughter of the assassinated patriarch.  The Cambridge City Council was neutral with maximum guilt.  

When the killer of multiple nesting geese and of the leader of the gaggle graduated to rape and murder in the same location, the city council discussed the rape and murder for an hour.  They just did not want to know where their copycat committed the act.

And they are making their outrages worse and worse, while lying of their own holiness.

This guy is the other vestigial White Goose with Brown China markings.

This is one of the offspring, either of Brown Beauty or of the Toulouse who joined the gaggle.

Lovely day for a swim.

3. Cambridge City Council claims holiness against the Other Guy.  How dare circus proprietors who are less vile than the Cambridge City Council misbehave!

The latest con game, yelling at Circus proprietors (and do not look at the real record of the Cambridge City Council) may be read at:  

http://www2.cambridgema.gov/cityClerk/CommitteeReport.cfm?instance_id=808.

4. Repeat of response to Cambridge City Council lie that they have no responsibilities on the Charles River.

From letter to Cambridge City Council, June 11, 2014.

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• City Council has no business on Memorial Drive?

I have been hearing some strange comments that the Cambridge City Council has no business getting involved in Memorial Drive.

• Save the world but don’t talk to us about Cambridge.

Last I heard, the Cambridge City Council has routinely spoken out on matters in South America, Africa, and wherever.  Memorial Drive, by contrast, is in Cambridge, MA, and this destruction was run past the Cambridge Development Department.  

The contrast between saving the world and being “neutral” on irresponsible destruction in Cambridge, MA is striking to someone looking for the truth.

• “Underpasses”

Additionally, the Cambridge City Council has blessed the “underpasses” outrage which has been condemned by MassDOT.  This destruction is targeted at the Western Avenue, River Street and Anderson (Harvard Square) Bridges and their environs.

Last I heard, the destructive “underpasses” you have gone on record supporting were located on Memorial Drive.

The most visible proponent has called the $24 million (H3332, predecessor to H4009) for massive tree destruction incidental to $4 million for the destructive “underpasses.”  So it would appear that the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” claims that your irresponsible support of $4 million destruction included even more irresponsible support of $24 million destruction.

• Magazine Beach

Additionally, the Cambridge City Council spent between one and two million on the project at Magazine Beach which included destructive work which was either kept secret and which was a flat out lie directly in conflict with public contrary positions.  Portions of your achievement there include a bizarre wall of introduced vegetation walling off Magazine Beach from the Charles River.  

The supposedly sacred “Charles River Master Plan” called for a lawn to the river.  It was modified to undo the blatant lie.  

You were promised better playing fields.  But you installed sickly grass to replace the healthy responsible grasses there for more than half a century.  You then fed it poisons to keep it alive, and then put in a complicated drainage system to drain off the poisons keeping alive the sickly introduced grasses.  The drainage system decreased the size of playing fields in contrast to the improvements which you were promised.

Your manager of the project repeatedly lied of “no intent” to harm the Charles River White Geese.  You have blocked them from their food of most of the last 33 years at Magazine Beach and have proceeded to starve them.  This does not sound like “no intent” to harm, but I speak English.  Additionally your agent has publicly bragged of starving them. 

The fine print of the “Charles River Master Plan” calls for killing off or driving away all resident animals, an achievement you and the DCR did in many acres when you destroyed irreplaceable woods at the Alewife reservation with the assistance of Company Union groups.

My letter of September 19, 2012 to the City Council is attached to my letter on the Grand Junction highway proposal being filed at the same time as this letter.

It includes persuasive photos of the outrage at Magazine Beach in its appendix 3.

Last I heard, Magazine Beach is on Memorial Drive.

• Grand Junction bike highway to be extended beyond common sense.

You recently authorized preparation for funding of a bike highway along the Grand Junction.  

The responsible ending for this bike highway would come where the Grand Junction approached the bend in Vassar Street.  There is a tiny distance which would need to be taken through a parking lot there to connect to Vassar Street the distance of one building on either side of Vassar Street to Memorial Drive.

Instead of the responsible ending, the plans you are organizing funding for go beyond this point and cause major destruction in the formerly lush area to which you have confined the Charles River White Geese.  Plus you would install a fence dividing the animal habitat at the railroad tracks, preventing direct access between two areas to which major destruction has been done by your accomplice.

The supposed plans show photographs all over the place but lie through omission by not showing the goose habitat.  Your friends have helped you in the heartless abuse of these beautiful animals by doing very terrible things to the environment in that location already.

Photos of the destruction areas are below and in the appendix.

• False description to you of state plans for the Grand Junction area.

An excellent example of the quality of the staff with which you are working is further information which was suppressed in the 2000s when the City of Cambridge upzoned the area near Putnam Avenue and the railroad tracks.  

The staff clearly communicated that, if the Urban Ring subway went forward, a train stop would go there.  Your staff lied by telling you there was only one Urban Ring option.  At the end of this report, I will provide the MBTA plans for both the alternative options in Cambridge.  The one your staff has lied does not exist was adopted as an option in 1991, five years after I first suggested it.  The one which “does not exist” is the likely winner of the two options.

Appendix 1 to the attachment, pages 2, 5, 6 and 7 provide the MBTA’s maps.  The Kenmore Crossing is the one that the Development Department has lied for more than 20 years that it does not exist, and which is now most likely to be the winner.

• Summary on argument which should not exist.

I have no respect for claims that the Cambridge City Council has no business on Memorial Drive.  

The claim translates as a claim that the Cambridge City Council has a right to destroy but not to defend the environment.  The claim has the same value as the Development Department Staff’s 20 year insistence that the Urban Ring option which is likely to be the winner does not exist.

• Unexercised rights of the Cambridge City Council on Memorial Drive.

The deal by which you inflicted destruction on Magazine Beach included a provision that the City of Cambridge would take over management.

That has not happened.

I would anticipate it has not happened because the Cambridge City Council does not want to “know” of the outrages achieved there by Cambridge and the DCR.

Exercise your rights.  Insist first, however, that the bizarre wall be treated the same way as bordering vegetation everywhere else on the Charles River Basin, and be chopped down.

Insist that the poisons be stopped and the responsible grasses returned.

Insist that the playing fields delivered to you be the same or better than they were before the destruction commenced.

Insist that the expansion of this outrage blessed through corrupt action of the local Company Union not take place.

• The outrage on Memorial Drive, the secret part of the Grand Junction proposal.

The supposed plans do not show what you are destroying.  This is part of the usual packages of omissions.  Keep it secret.  I will go into this outrage in a separate communication concerning this deliberately secret destruction.

• Conclusion.

I beg of you.

You claim to be pro environment.

This outrage is most definitely not pro environment.  It is highly destructive of the environment and exactly the opposite of your claims of being pro environment.

Please oppose House Bill H4009, Section 2C, line item 2890-7020.

Lovely Blessing of the Animals in Jamaica Plain, Boston, USA

I want to thank the folks at the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain for their lovely Blessing of the Animals this afternoon, and for their invitation to Friends of the White Geese.

Regrettably, members of the gaggle are very loath to leave their home, so I brought a stand in provided by my sister Jeanne, a lovely little white baby waterbird doll.

The folks from First Baptist prepared a very thoughtful welcoming, including photos of dogs, cats, and even one Mallard.

Their address is

First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain
633 Center Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
617-524-3992 / 508-840-6479
kyannabeech@live.com

Here are a few photos of participants.  Dogs tend to be the most social animals.  A number of them happily enjoyed the day.

I apologize for the paucity of photos.  I had a good time.  I spent so much time patting dogs that I forgot to create much of a photo record.  And I am afraid that I realized that I had messed up only when I went to post the photos.

It was a lovely day, a lot of nice people and uniformly nice dogs.

Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of Boston on the other side of Brookline and the Charles River from Cambridge.  It is close, but separated.  It has a very significant former Cambridge population.  And it has neighborhoods which are significantly less dense than Cambridge.  Jamaica Plain may be the most popular single destination for folks driven out of Cambridge by the Cambridge costs.

Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA, Babies enjoy the Charles River

1. Babies enjoy the Charles River.
2. Links to latest reports of outrages.
3. Contacts: Protect against destruction.
4. Tip.

1. Babies enjoy the Charles River.

Here are some photos from June 18, 2014.

The proud parents took the two babies I have been following swimming.

They enjoyed themselves.

The area they went swimming off is near the big tree which is beloved by the gaggle.  Fortunately, the destruction has been minimal in this tiny, beloved area.

The photos start in the Charles River and follow them leaving the river and returning to dry ground.

2. Links to latest reports of outrages.

The plans for destruction under House Bill H4009 are in my letter to the Cambridge City Council posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/h4009-destruction-of-hundreds-of-trees.html

These are the official plans posted when they sought Obama moneys, lying of disease to the public.  They have been fighting to destroy these trees for 10 years.  Do not be conned.  Any deviation from these plans will be minor.

The exact citation is House Bill H4009 is Section 2C, line item 2890-7020.

The photos of trees marked for destruction on the Cambridge Common are posted in two parts:

a. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-cambridge-common-another-target-of.html.
b. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/cambridge-ma-usa-prepares-to-destroy.html.

My letter of objection to the Cambridge City Council is posted at:
http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/destruction-of-cambridge-common-3.html.  The letter includes smaller reproductions of the actual photos.

The Cambridge City Clerk's Printing of my letter and the attachments far surpasses in quality my records.  It is posted at:  http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/140602%20latremouille%20com_1.PDF.

On June 3, 2014, I posted on YouTube my presentation of that letter, at http://youtu.be/FgQ9ojVuMxM.

My objection to the Cambridge City Council on the Grand Junction highway proposal is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/cambridge-ma-usa-destructive-grand.html.

3. Contacts: Protect against destruction.

I have repeatedly reported on the outrages being inflicted on the Charles River and the Cambridge Common.

I included in the letter to the Cambridge City Council objecting to its imminent outrages on the Cambridge Common my objections to House Bill H4009 initiated by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  This will destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, and ALL such destruction is coordinated with the City of Cambridge.  Passage could be imminent.

I summarized many other ongoing and recently accomplished environmental outrages for the City Council of the City of Cambridge has filthy hands.

The imminent target of destruction is the excellent common just north of Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, USA.

If you would like to be recorded opposing to these outrages, please send an email to dlopez@cambridgema.gov.  That will get your email to Donna Lopez, the City Clerk.  As part of your email, ask that your email be forwarded to the Cambridge City Council and included in their Communications for the next meeting.

Support of my letter opposing the destruction on the Cambridge Common and the destruction in H4009 concerning multiple destruction of trees and animals on the Charles River would be helpful.

Of greater value in opposing the outrages on the Charles River would be communications to state officials as follows:

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

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

The list of legislators’ emails is set up so that you can copy and paste them into addresses on your email, either original addressees or, better, blind copies.  Please do not miss the addendum at the beginning in which I list the local State Representative who was recently elected.

4. Tip.

The key with the Cambridge City Council is that their weakness is a very distressing and continued lie that they are pro-environment.

One of the major purposes of the fake company union groups is to perpetuate this lie.

It is a very major weakness, but the lack of response to complaint concerning their destruction on the Cambridge Common is not encouraging.

There are four out of nine newcomers.  One might be subject to persuasion.  The balance could be possibly be embarrassed into decency.  I have major zoning victories as an environmental technique in Cambridge.  It was common to get approvals from the “conservatives.”  The “liberals” were then embarrassed into compliance with their claimed positions.

The current situation on the Cambridge Common gives good reason to question whether any of the newcomers have environmental decency.

Of major importance with legislators is a widespread contempt for the Department of Conservation and Recreation and its destructiveness.  Cambridge, MA, is a distinctive entity which is in sync with the problems that the DCR embodies.

Cambridge, MA, USA Common: NINE city councilors start destruction of excellent trees.

1. Bad Report.
a. Introduction.
b. The outrage Thursday evening.
c. Past Postings.
d. The record.
e. Leafleting.
2. Links to latest reports of outrages.
3. Contacts: Protect against destruction.
4. Tip.



1. Bad Report.

a. Introduction.

The biggest problem with the Cambridge City Council is that the non stop lies of environmental sainthood leaves you with the automatic impression that “they would never stoop so low.”

That is a very severe error.

Thursday evening, June 19, 2014, at about 5 pm or so I was driving past the Cambridge Common.  I keep making the mistake of thinking, “They would never stoop so low.”

The Cambridge City Council has taken the first step toward destruction of those excellent trees on the Cambridge Common.

b. The outrage Thursday evening.

Here is the horror I saw Thursday evening.

Trees protected by wood will not be destroyed.

Trees not protected by wood are highly likely to be destroyed.

I did not look for the orange mark of death, but the situation looks thorough, and outrageous.

The view coming from Harvard Square is horrendous.

c. Past Postings.

I posted here a copy of my letter with photos to the Cambridge City Council.  It was dated May 26, and delivered in hand on May 27, and due May 29 to make the June 2, 2014, city council meeting.

My photos of trees marked for destruction on the Cambridge Common are posted in two parts:

(A) http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-cambridge-common-another-target-of.html.
(B) http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/cambridge-ma-usa-prepares-to-destroy.html.

My letter of objection to the Cambridge City Council is posted at:
http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/destruction-of-cambridge-common-3.html.  The letter includes smaller reproductions of the actual photos.

The Cambridge City Clerk's Printing of my letter and the attachments far surpasses in quality my records.  It is posted at:  http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/140602%20latremouille%20com_1.PDF.

The letter gives a number of excellent photos of the impending outrageous destruction on the Cambridge Common next to Harvard Square.

My presentation of that letter live on my Cable Show on June 1, 2014, from my post on this blog, is posted on YouTube at http://youtu.be/FgQ9ojVuMxM.

d. The record.

I have checked the city clerk’s record of last Monday’s meeting.  There was no action Monday.  Next Monday is a special format under which normal business is not conducted.  Nine city councilor s are fully aware of this and had a chance to take action last Monday.

There is any sign of decency from any member of the Cambridge City Council.

All five returning city councilors reaffirmed their destructiveness by silence.

All new four city councilors have adopted the destructiveness by silence.  Silence in the face of outrage is acceptance, confirmation.

NINE city councilors are destroying those excellent trees.

e. Leafleting.

I was on my way to a city council committee meeting at a school in West Cambridge.  The leaflet I passed out in front of the school features the outrage on the Charles River with a box providing the URL for the YouTube presentation of the letter to the Cambridge City Council on Cambridge Common.

I pointed out to various people that the Cambridge City Council’s record is consistently reprehensible.

• Destruction on the Charles River.
• Destruction of acres of the Alewife reservation.
• Destruction of the Cambridge Common.

The responses were knowing and not happy looks.

I did speak with one of the new councilors.  I got a very carefully worded no comment.

2. Links to latest reports of outrages.

The plans for destruction under House Bill H4009 are in my letter to the Cambridge City Council posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/h4009-destruction-of-hundreds-of-trees.html

These are the official plans posted when they sought Obama moneys, lying of disease to the public.  They have been fighting to destroy these trees for 10 years.  Do not be conned.  Any deviation from these plans will be minor.

The exact citation is House Bill H4009 is Section 2C, line item 2890-7020.

The photos of trees marked for destruction on the Cambridge Common are posted in two parts:

a. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-cambridge-common-another-target-of.html.
b. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/cambridge-ma-usa-prepares-to-destroy.html.

My letter of objection to the Cambridge City Council is posted at:
http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/destruction-of-cambridge-common-3.html.  The letter includes smaller reproductions of the actual photos.

The Cambridge City Clerk's Printing of my letter and the attachments far surpasses in quality my records.  It is posted at:  http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/140602%20latremouille%20com_1.PDF.

On June 3, 2014, I posted on YouTube my presentation of that letter, at http://youtu.be/FgQ9ojVuMxM.

My objection to the Cambridge City Council on the Grand Junction highway proposal is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/cambridge-ma-usa-destructive-grand.html.

3. Contacts: Protect against destruction.

I have repeatedly reported on the outrages being inflicted on the Charles River and the Cambridge Common.

I included in the letter to the Cambridge City Council objecting to its imminent outrages on the Cambridge Common my objections to House Bill H4009 initiated by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  This will destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, and ALL such destruction is coordinated with the City of Cambridge.  Passage could be imminent.

I summarized many other ongoing and recently accomplished environmental outrages for the City Council of the City of Cambridge has filthy hands.

The imminent target of destruction is the excellent common just north of Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, USA.

If you would like to be recorded opposing to these outrages, please send an email to dlopez@cambridgema.gov.  That will get your email to Donna Lopez, the City Clerk.  As part of your email, ask that your email be forwarded to the Cambridge City Council and included in their Communications for the next meeting.

Support of my letter opposing the destruction on the Cambridge Common and the destruction in H4009 concerning multiple destruction of trees and animals on the Charles River would be helpful.

Of greater value in opposing the outrages on the Charles River would be communications to state officials as follows:

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

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

The list of legislators’ emails is set up so that you can copy and paste them into addresses on your email, either original addressees or, better, blind copies.  Please do not miss the addendum at the beginning in which I list the local State Representative who was recently elected.

4. Tip.

The key with the Cambridge City Council is that their weakness is a very distressing and continued lie that they are pro-environment.

One of the major purposes of the fake company union groups is to perpetuate this lie.

It is a very major weakness, but the lack of response to complaint concerning their destruction on the Cambridge Common is not encouraging.

There are four out of nine newcomers.  One might be subject to persuasion.  The balance could be possibly be embarrassed into decency.  I have major zoning victories as an environmental technique in Cambridge.  It was common to get approvals from the “conservatives.”  The “liberals” were then embarrassed into compliance with their claimed positions.

The current situation on the Cambridge Common gives good reason to question whether any of the newcomers have environmental decency.

Of major importance with legislators is a widespread contempt for the Department of Conservation and Recreation and its destructiveness.  Cambridge, MA, is a distinctive entity which is in sync with the problems that the DCR embodies.