MIT Destroying historical storage building which it promised to save.

Report from Robert J. La Trémouille

IN PROCESS NOW.

The historical WAREHOUSE storage building now owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and located on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge between Vassar Street and the Grand Junction Railroad Tracts WHICH HAS BEEN PROMISED TO BE SAVED BY MIT is in the process of demolition.

This was observed by me about 1:30 pm, October 12, 2023 from the #1 bus traveling toward Boston.

Demolition is ongoing on the top floors facing the Grand Junction railroad.

SUPPLEMENT:   This post is getting a lot of hits.  The follow up post with photos is getting less.  Please see https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/mits-renovation-of-historical-warehouse.html for gory details.  I have a lot of photos, but it is also a lot of work.  This may wind up as the DEFINITIVE post.

Charles River White Geese: Fire next door to the Destroyed Nesting Area

 Charles River White Geese:  Fire next door to the Destroyed Nesting Area

Here is a photo taken from the website of WBZ TV Boston.  WBZ TV was reporting a fire on the opposite side of the BU Bridge from the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The report is that of a fire reported to be in a homeless encampment.  The situation, obviously, is yet another result of the extreme lack of fitness of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation to be charged with the maintenance of properties on the Charles River in Boston and Cambridge.

The view is from a point a little bit north of the Cambridge city line on the BU Bridge.

The building at the right is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology building which is separated from the Destroyed Nesting Area of the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese by Memorial Drive and the on ramp to Memorial Drive from the BU Bridge.  The DNA is approximately to the right of the car which is visible.

The thick smoke is obviously from a landscaped strip managed by the DCR located between the BU Bridge and the sensitively designed pollution control plant of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.  The row of trees on the left abut the plant.

I walked around this area on Thursday. The area I saw, consistent with the belligerent incompetence of the DCR, was a mess.  A fire is not at all surprising.  Not that long ago, a contractor working for the DCR created a public health emergency in the Charles River by rerouting poisons dumped on Magazine Beach by the DCR and Cambridge into the Charles River, creating an algae infestation.  The DCR has inflicted decades of heartless abuse of the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese.  The DCR with Cambridge assistance has destroyed more than 150 commonly excellent trees between the BU Bridge and Longfellow Bridge on the Charles River.  The DCR  and Cambridge are in the middle of destroying another 60 commonly excellent  trees at Magazine Beach.

The DCR is belligerently unfit to be charged with state properties on the Charles River.  I have recently gone into detail of its record (including a predecessor entity).  That analysis may be seen in Cambridge, MA records at:  https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True, pages 2654 to 2713.  It can be difficult to wander through the Cambridge records.  At the request of Governor Healey’s Assistant Secretary for the Environment, I have recently provided the off line masters for this document to an official at the DCR.  I would be pleased to provide the off line files to people so requesting at boblat@yahoo.com.  There are an extremely large number of graphics in this report.  I have subdivided the files into workable size.  It is feasible to transmit them at your request.

The Charles River White Geese should be safe from this outrage.  The unfit DCR, however, keeps on creating outrages.

My solution of the DCR problem is to replace the DCR on the Charles River with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation which also is responsible on the Charles River but has different responsibilities.  MassDOT is not perfect, but on shared responsibilities, MassDOT looks like the adult in the room with the DCR and Cambridge.

I encourage anybody who is concerned with the environment to communicate to Governor Healey.  It is a waste of time to attempt to deal with the belligerently destructive Cambridge City Council.  However nominal communications could be of value.  The Cambridge City Manager is relatively new and could be of help.  City Council candidates other than two with records on the Charles River are also possible people to communicate with.  Among other problems, one of the new candidates did the poisoning of the Charles as documented in our DCR report.

More destruction DECEPTIVELY proposed for the Charles River.

 More destruction DECEPTIVELY proposed for the Charles River.

1. General.

2. Plans.

A, General.

B. Governing plans.

C. DCR regeneration.

D. MIT Lecturer.

3. Reality.

1. General.

Another fake protective group has reared it misleading head.

An entity which claimed to be the “BU Bridge Safety Alliance” held a presentation on Thursday, October 5, 2023, announcing ideas which would be “better for all.”

It turned out to be an Massachusetts Institute of Technology lecturer indulging in a teaching session with his class with glorification galore, and minimal understanding of local history and lack of concern about environmental impacts.

I saw one student express concern about harm to existing trees.  He was sloughed off.  At another point, I raised plans IN THE IMPLEMENTATION STAGE  to make the situation worse from what passes for planners in Cambridge.  The instructor was uninterested.

Included in the group was a Cambridge City Council staffer who has conveyed the City Council’s destructive ideas to the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation.  The City Council ideas communicated distress that the DCR had apparently backed off from the most irresponsible plans of the DCR.  The City Council’s destructive ideas comported with one truly irresponsible idea of the MIT lecturer.  The City Council  euphemism is “sidewalk improvements” although the lecturer hid this destructive part of his proposal as much as possible while claiming to be communicating it.  

The staffer is running for City Council.  A more destructive “activist” is among his opposition among City Council candidates.  She created an algae blight which poisoned the Charles River AS PAID CONTRACTOR FOR THE DCR.  That does not make either one of them less of a problem than the City Council and its bureaucrats.

2. Plans.

A, General.

Below is the DCR’s plans for the most irresponsible part of the MIT lecturer’s ideas.  Of importance, MIT supported the January 2016 destruction.  From MIT’s point of view, it “benefitted” from that outrage.  

This part of the plans was not implemented in the 2016 outrage.  In the 2016 outrage the DCR with Cambridge assistance destroyed more than 150 trees near the Charles River between the BU and Longfellow Bridges, including too many truly excellent trees.  Our video on that package may be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.  

The instructor’s ideas, obscured as much as possible, and shared by Cambridge’s environmentally destructive City Council, were rejected in 2016.  They resurfaced through fraud in the latest round of plans, and apparently were given up on in favor of less destructive ideas.  BUT THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL IS TRYING.

From Cambridge records, here is my recent summary of the continuing outrages most visibly by the DCR, with have included Cambridge bureaucracy and City Council support, with Cambridge’s usual fake protective groups assisting:  https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True, pages 2654 to 2713.  This analysis goes back more than twenty years, although the Charles River White Geese have had their habitat on the Charles River in this area for more than 42 years.  

I, at the direction of the governor’s people, have passed master computer files for that document to an office of the DCR.  I would be pleased to pass these master files on to you as well.  Please contact me at boblat@yahoo.com.  I had to split files without deletion of component parts to make the file size of the master files accepted by the state’s computer.

B. Governing plans.

Here are the plans apparently being resurrected by the MIT lecturer which the DCR gave up on in January 2016 and which the Cambridge City Council seems to be trying to revive, along with this MIT lecturer.  The key part of the plans are difficult to read.  I have tried to make them less hidden through lighting modifications.  It is extremely difficult to use the plans.

The actual plans were drawn by a predecessor organization which the legislature tried to destroy to protect the world from its destructiveness.  The “planners” moved to the DCR and have proceeded with the outrages.  I will not waste people’s times by making what, in reality, HAS BEEN MADE a silly distinction between the two entities.

Memorial Drive, the boulevard on the Cambridge side of the Charles River runs right to left starting at the upper left and curving to the upper right.

Below it is the area in very destructive play, the on ramp from the BU Bridge to Memorial Drive.  Running at a slight angle from bottom to top in the middle of the plan is the Grand Junction Railroad.  To its left below the ramp is the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.  To the right is the Wild Area, the last remaining animal populated woods in this part of the Charles River.  

The DCR demonstrates the vileness of the entire batch of plans by the circle numbered “535” toward the lower right.  This is the ONE tree the batch of destroyers do not seem to be fighting to destroy.  To the left of the Grand Junction are other trees targeted.  The blackened one, marked “541" is the gem of the BU Bridge Rotary in this area, and the gem of this part of the Destroyed Nesting Area.  It would be casually destroyed AS SECRETLY AS POSSIBLE 

The latest round of attacks was delayed by the COVID nightmare.  The DCR lied that its plans ended at the BU Bridge.  

C. DCR regeneration.

Here is one of several essentially duplicate slides from the DCR presentation of the earliest version of its current proposal.

The key lie at that time was that the DCR said its plans eastern boundary was the BU Bridge.  Crossing this plan is Memorial Drive.  Running below Memorial Drive is the BU Bridge, the supposed eastern end.  The lie is demonstrated by the fact that the plans go beyond the BU Bridge to the right.  The area to the right is the area that the DCR did not destroy in January 2016, and which the Cambridge City Council through that staffer, and this MIT lecturer are currently attacking.

The DCR has backed off on this part of their plans, ending the current offensive at the next bridge to the west, the River Street Bridge.  The Cambridge City Council, through that staffer has implored the DCR to do “sidewalk improvements” east of the BU Bridge.  The “sidewalk improvements” are the stuff shown in the above plan, with the MIT lecturer including as misleadingly as possible in his presentation.

D. MIT Lecturer.

The MIT Lecturer had two handouts in his show and tell, one for the Cambridge Side of the BU Bridge, the other (mismarked “Cambridge”) for the Boston Side.

Here is a blow up of the relevant part of the MIT lecturer’s plans.  Dominating the photo from bottom to top, is the BU Bridge.  To the right is the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.  

At the top is Memorial Drive, below it on the right is the on ramp from the BU Bridge to Memorial Drive, the northern edge of the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.  The edge to the right IS NOT EDITED BY ME.  THIS IS AS FAR AS HE WENT TO THE RIGHT.  

The number 3 gives the impression that it indicates the totality of his plans.  His comments extended the plans, if you listened close enough, to the outrage continually showing up from the DCR and the Cambridge City Council in spite of lovely and, in that key DCR announcement, FRAUDULENT comments to the contrary.

3. Reality.

Here is the wild area which would be destroyed.  To its left is the Grand Junction Railroad, and a tiny part of the DNA.  The building to the right is a boathouse owned by Boston University.

DCR work projects commonly have  harm to the Charles River White Geese.  The DCR has explained its continuing outrages by saying it only has a duty to refrain from harming animals on a Federal protected list.

And here is tree 541, NEVER MENTIONED, BUT ALWAYS TARGETED along with a lot of other destruction in the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.  Photo was taken from the DNA.

It is now much larger.  In the background is Memorial Drive and a building currently owned by MIT, the employer of the lecturer who is the creator of these latest plans.

Report on Charles River outrages, transmittal to Cambridge City Manager.

Report on Charles River outrages, transmittal to Cambridge City Manager.

1. Introduction

2. City Manager letter, part 1.

3. Background.

4. City Manager letter, part 2.

5. Harvard University’s Coming Allston Village Campus.

1. Introduction

For my last report, I gave the index to our detailed letter to a whole bunch of government entities including outrages upon outrages which the Cambridge and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation have inflicted on the Charles River because the outrages have been so massive that the letter itself was a large compilation of the unforgivable.

The complete publication of the communication is on line at https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True, pages 2654 to 2713.  Our report did provide the index.  The index is posted at https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/charles-river-report-published-index.html.

I did, however, did provide a good transmittal to the new Cambridge City Manager.  It may be of value, but I still recommend looking at the original.  The graphics are so massive that I broke the file into many word processing files to address my application getting overloaded in my computer.

Here are a few key photos about the area under attack.

The Eastern area under attack, From “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw, minute 09:28.  The drone photos are centered on Magazine Beach.

From minute 5:38 cropped, Cambridge running from the BU Bridge to the Mass. Ave / Harvard Bridge.  This cropped still includes a different view a lot of the area in the prior photo.  All of the drone photos are before the January 2016 outrages.  Running from the very left is the extremely responsible Massachusetts Water Resource Agency facility, the BU Bridge, the Destroyed Nesting Area of the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese, the Grand Junction railroad and Bridge, the Wild Area also containing free animals, the BU Boathouse, the hotel area, and then a portion of the Charles River which was deliberately denuded of trees over the prior decade without replacement so Cambridge and the DCR could lie of “improvements.  In spite of the vast number of photos in the report, I omitted this artificially created wasteland.  Definitely an error on my part.  

Then follows the bend which is the outrage that was inflicted on the Cherry Grove.  The above photo has a better view from there from the bend.

The review I have submitted has so much in it that ALL the outrages could not be included, but it is really distressing to look back at this part of this still.  A very major part of this “pre-existing wasteland was created by Cambridge in a “sewer project.”  The outrage was left for years so that the DCR and CAMBRIDGE could LIE about all the “tree planting”after January 2016.  An outrage was created and left to rot.  This sort of lying got Cambridge designated as a “Tree City USA” over repeated years because “Tree City USA” and Cambridge and the DCR do not count the trees they OUTRAGEOUSLY destroy.  Our report only shows the part done in and since January 2016.  We tried to communicate this by showing tree destruction in the right hand part of this still in our report.  We omitted the wasteland created by the sewer project.

From minute 1.59 of the drone stills, the Core Habitat of the Charles River White Geese for most of the last 42 years is shown in context.  The bottom right is I90, the Massachusetts Turnpike, currently being studied for major improvements, of which Cambridge entities are fighting for major destruction in Cambridge.  Plus Soldiers Field Road, the Boston correlative of Memorial Drive, which follows the river in Cambridge, running from the left to the top near the right.

In this clip, running from the left is the DCR Swimming Pool (white area), then the Magazine Street park under attack now along with the excellent grove to the left of the swimming pool, and the playing fields which have been their good weather habitat for most of the last 42 years.  This is followed by the MWRA plant.  There is a building under that open space, beautifully done.  Then the area in the prior still.

And here is the DCR swimming pool and the excellent Micro Center grove currently under attack by the environmentally reprehensible Cambridge City Council and DC R, minute 2.33 cropped.  The doomed grove is at the bottom right.

Following is the transmittal to the Cambridge City Manager, with graphics added to assist the reader.  Remember, this letter transmits 55 pages of outrages plus four pages of attachments.  The CM letter is interrupted for more context.

2. City Manager letter, part 1.

City Manager Yi-An Huang

City of Cambridge

795 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA   02139

Mr. City Manager:

RE: More detailed comments on the DCR PARTIALLY presented to Stewardship Council at its public meeting of May 25, 2023.

Welcome.  I, personally, have been active in the City of Cambridge for four previous City Managers.  Your immediate predecessor was a clear improvement over the three interlocked City Managers who preceded him.  There, however, was only so much he could do.

Enclosed for your information and action is a copy of our communication to the CEO of the Department of Conservation and Recreation detailing the situation on the Charles River, with recommendations for correction.  A copy is also being provided to the City Council.

You have almost certainly been given an incorrect impression of the situation on the Charles River, both in your current position and, previously, as a resident of Cambridge subject to the tiny but extremely loud Machine created with the assistance of the three interlocked City Managers.

We hope that you, directly or through your staff, will evaluate this communication including the recommendations therein in order to give you an accurate awareness of the situation and our proposed responses to the situation.  

As noted in the communication, the legislature has attempted to correct extremely irresponsible management on the Charles River.  The legislature took action, but unfortunately, the guilty parties migrated from the  Metropolitan District Commission, which the legislature destroyed, to the Department of Conservation and Recreation, which received part of the MDC’s responsibilities.  The guilty parties, with the assistance of the Cambridge bureaucracy, have since continued with their irresponsible behavior.  They have done a great deal of harm and are proceeding to make the outrage even worse.

One excellent example of the outrageous situation in Cambridge government has been the handing of the subway proposal known as the Urban Ring.  I have two years experience employed in a management level position in one of the nation’s largest railways.  I started working on the Urban Ring proposal in 1986, and, realizing the destructiveness of the then existing proposal supported by the Cambridge bureaucracy, proposed an alternate route to the one supported by the Cambridge bureaucracy.  

My proposal became known as the Kenmore Crossing.  It was adopted by the MBTA as an alternative to the Cambridge bureaucracy’s favored proposal in 1991 or 1992.  For A MINIMUM OF 20 YEARS thereafter, the Cambridge bureaucracy and the Machine lied that the only Urban Ring proposal under consideration was the irresponsible alternative supported by the Cambridge bureaucracy.  

With my assistance and the assistance of responsible people in Government, plus one key developer, it now is clear that the Kenmore Crossing, probably terminating at Kenmore / Lansdowne Station, is the Urban Ring alternative which will go forward.  Since the Harvard / Longwood Medical Center badly needs this transportation, it is highly likely it will go forward.  The Cambridge government together with MIT have shot itself in the foot, once again, with massive MIT dormitory construction making the Urban Ring Kenmore Crossing much more expensive in Cambridge by being in the obvious path of the Kenmore Crossing.  As a result, it is highly likely that the Urban Ring will terminate at Kenmore / Lansdowne Station.  

3. Background.

The project pushed by the Cambridge bureaucracy to destroy the Wild Area required that Lansdowne Station near Fenway Park and Kenmore Station be moved maybe half a mile to the west (straight ahead in this photo) to a location a block from the core of Boston University, Marsh Chapel.  Shown here is the current situation of Landsdowne Station, under the first of a four building project which has also completed a second building and has approvals for two more behind the camera.  Lansdowne Station is at the bottom left, with the Worcester Line of the Boston Commuter Rail system to its right and then I90, the Massachusetts Turnpike.  

Here is a very telling cropping of Minute 8.12 of “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw.

The bridge straight ahead is the Beacon Street bridge connecting Kenmore Square to Brookline.  Behind the camera is the Brookline Avenue bridge between Kenmore Square and Fenway Park, with the Longwood / Harvard Medical Center perhaps a mile beyond on Brookline Avenue, to the left rear.  The coming buildings will quite certainly include allowances for the new subway, including links to combine Landsdowne Station to Kenmore Station as one big superstation which will also include ready transfers to three Green Line subway lines out of Kenmore, and one Green line subway line inbound.

This is from minute 8:12 of the drone stills

The bridge is the Mass. Ave. / Harvard Bridge crossing the Charles River.  The Boston end to the right is about one block from Kenmore Square, further to the right outside the photo.  The state was considering, and still is considering an “Urban Ring” subway line which would provide very much needed public transportation for the Harvard / Longwood Medical Area, one of the biggest attractions for money in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The original plans proposed that the line run under the Grand Junction railroad, which is visible as the grey area running at perhaps a 30 degree angle at the bottom left.  This is the alternative that the Cambridge bureaucrats and the Cambridge machine supported and lied for more than 20 years was the only route under consideration.

The big green area is the playing fields of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  The Kenmore Crossing as proposed by me and adopted as an alternative by the state in 1991 or 1992, would have turned off the Grand Junction and run under the playing fields, followed by running under the Charles River and connecting to Kenmore Station under Kenmore Square.

The three truly massive buildings just on the other side of the Grand Junction are a dormitory complex constructed by MIT in the direct path of the Kenmore Crossing with the assistance of very major zoning games by the Cambridge City Council.  Another apparently dormitory project to the right of this massive project is in planning or construction to the right of this building with further assistance of exchanges of property rights with the Cambridge City Council.  

The tripartite building blocks the Kenmore Crossing.  The next construction will apparently block an alternate route for a bike highway which is another dirty trick, but beyond the scope of this report. 

Here is the Green Line A proposal described below.  Section 5 presents the drone still view of the highway area going to the left.  The road shown under it is Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.  The BU Bridge is a little above the bottom right corner.

4. City Manager letter, part 2.

As part of my fruitful participation in the I90 Rebuild Project I have submitted the alternate Green Line A proposal included as Attachment 2.  This will assist medical students and others to travel between the Medical Area and the relocated Harvard Medical School and related facilities being created ancillary to the I90 rebuild project.  I have been highly beneficial to the City of Cambridge in my activities on the I90 Rebuild, IN SPITE OF MORE ERRORS BY THE BUREAUCRACY, THIS TIME THROUGH ITS APPOINTEES.

As stated in less detail in the attached communication, I persuaded MassDOT to move ALL of the Boston / area traffic from the River Street bridge / off ramp of Soldiers Field Road to my proposed direct Soldiers Field Road connection to and from the project area.  Unfortunately, while my intent was to free up Cambridge traffic on that off ramp by relocating Boston / area traffic, the Cambridge appointees and their compatriots persuaded MassDOT to move Cambridge traffic to the new Harvard campus IN BOSTON / ALLSTON as well, and destroy the River Street off ramp.  Fortunately, I and others persuaded MassDOT to do what I originally proposed, continue the River Street off ramp for the undisturbed benefit of Cambridge.

Prior to and overlapping with these environmental activities, I used zoning as a very effective environmental tool, assisting people throughout the City of Cambridge.  I carefully kept these activities separate from The Machine because of the destructiveness of The Machine.  Almost all of our victories constituted defeat of the bureaucracy and The Machine by vote of the Cambridge City Council.  I, as a result, have had more impact on Cambridge zoning than any other individual not employed by the City of Cambridge.  I would be pleased to follow up by providing you my partial résumé should you wish, but this package is pretty large without it.

We hope that you will take action appropriate to give the Commonwealth and the City of Cambridge  the situation on the Charles River which the Commonwealth and City of Cambridge deserve and which the legislature attempted to provide, IN SPITE OF THE CONTINUING AND VERY BAD ACTIONS of the bureaucracy and The Machine.

Thank you in advance for your kind consideration and appropriate action.

5. Harvard University’s Coming Allston Village Campus.

From the drone stills, minute 10:02.  At the bottom right is the narrow river front area west of Magazine Beach and, to the left of this strip, a small portion of the area behind the excellent Micro Center grove which is doomed by the Cambridge City Council and the DCR..

The point at the top is about a block from Boston’s Allston Village area.  This area’s planning would move the highway next to the BU West Campus and Allston neighborhood shown on the left.  The balance of this area, a railroad yard, has been moved to Worcester, MA.  The tall buildings on the right will not be directly affected.

A record of really bad government performance on the Charles River.

A record of really bad government performance on the Charles River.

My Charles River Report has been published on line by the Cambridge City Clerk. 

A committee of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation went through a process of public input by ZOOM on May 25, 2023 on the Charles River.  I was, of course, prevented from meaningful response.  

I did not last long after I gave my summary:  I very strongly think the best thing the DCR can do for the Charles River is to transfer its authority to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

I worked on my detailed analysis of the outrage as it has occurred and CURRENT bad initiatives.  I mailed the report just in time for delivery by the Cambridge City Clerk to the Cambridge City Council at its June 26, 2023 meeting.  Mailing essentially simultaneously went out the the Department CEO, the relevant Committee, the Governor of Massachusetts and the Cambridge City Manager.

My analysis was published by the Cambridge City Clerk as part of the, June 23, 2023 on line publishing of the agenda for the June 26 2023 meeting.  My big issue is how to communicate it concisely on this blog.

The report is so detailed and so extremely good, I have difficulty changing format to spell it out on this blog.  A lot of the value of the report is in how it is spelled out in hard copy.

Its publication on line is at https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True, pages 2654 to 2713. 

Officially, it is Communication 177 on the Agenda for the Cambridge City Council it is almost at the end of the agenda on line.  The official name is: “More detailed comments on the DCR PARTIALLY presented to Stewardship Council at its public meeting of May 25, 2023.”

I apologize for not having a more communicative title on the hard copy.

Here is the INDEX to the report.  I will follow up with some segments.  I am particularly fond of my transmittal letter to the Cambridge City Manager, but right now, this is what I have to give to you now:

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0. Introduction.

1. Recommendations.

2. Two key documents which are of interest.

A. My video communicating the massive destruction inflicted on the Charles River in and around January 2016, and the destruction behind false “announcements.”.

B. Destruction at the Magazine Beach Recreation Area.

3. The outrage of January 2016, Western Portion.

4. The Outage at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A. East of the Magnificent Cherry Grove, West of the Mass. Ave. / Harvard Bridge.

B. East of the Mass. Ave. / Harvard Bridge.

5. Attacks on the Wild Area during my exposure to it..

A. Location of the Wild Area.

B. Urban Ring.

C. Possible Excuses.

6. Continued outrages against the Charles River White Geese / their Destroyed Nesting Area.

A. “White Geese of Cambridge”

B. Attacks by Boston University and accomplices.

(1) Initial stages of destruction.

(2) Heartless abuse and environmental destruction  including attacks on nesting geese, assassination, rape and murder, the “reaction” of the Cambridge City Council.

(3) Continuing outrages.

(4) BU Created a lawn.  CRC & Friends destroyed lawn.  DESTRUCTION OF GROUND VEGETATION EVERYWHERE except planned BU Bridge construction work area.

C B.U. Bridge Work

D. Railroad Work

E. More Starvation from the DCR.  Blocking of food under Memorial Drive.

F. Impact of destroying the Wild Area.

7. Magazine Beach Recreation Area, General.

8. Walling off the Magazine Beach Playing Fields in the Name of a “Lawn to the River.”  General.

9. The Poisoning of the Charles River by the DCR’s agent, a Contractor who also works on the Charles River for the Cambridge City Council.

10. SECRET “improvements”by the Cambridge City Council. A - procedures, “New Dock”

A. Procedures.

B. “New” Dock WITHOUT BEING AT ALL NEW.

11. The Ball Field Maple.

12. SECRET “improvements”by the Cambridge City Council. B , A “View of the River.”

A. General.

B. The “View of the River.” 

C. What should be done.

13. Magazine Street Park.

14. Outrage at the Pedestrian Bridge over Memorial Drive..

15. MicroCenter Grove.

16. Summary.

Attachments

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The Index got too big to spell out the attachments in the Index.  I spelled them out at the end:

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1. Magazine Beach Destruction agreed to and provided to the Cambridge City Council  in 2019 by the GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR designated by the City of Cambridge as the ONLY PERSON (WITH FRIENDS) ALLOWED TO HAVE “PUBLIC INPUT” on projects in the BU Bridge area.  She previously poisoned the Charles River on behalf of the DCR (see above) and assisted the January 2016 outrage as part of a standard Cambridge Company Union claimed to be a “protective group” (Look only at what we tell you to look at.)  

2. Author’s proposal for new Green Line A mass transit route, better for Cambridge transportation without the damage fought for by the “planners.”  Better for Biden money that the bizarre bureaucracy beloved proposals.

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Two new “initiatives” on the Charles River. BOTH SCARY. Plus Cambridge’s preventing meaningful “public review” of the real stuff.

Two new “initiatives” on the Charles River.  BOTH SCARY.  Plus Cambridge’s preventing meaningful “public review” of the real stuff.

1. Introduction to the “initiatives.”

A. Close Memorial Drive on “Saturday.”

(1) Not to look at ongoing destruction FUNDED AND SUPPORTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL including destroying the excellent MicroCenter Grove on Magazine Beach across from the MicroCenter store.

(2) Not to look at YET AGAIN attempts to destroy the magnificent Wild Area east of the BU Bridge which powers that be in Cambridge have been to destroy since at least 1986.

B. The Grand Junction “Path.”

(1) General.

(2) M.I.T.’s Private Ramp from I-90 and possibly further.

(a) Current status.

(b) Prior game defeated.

(c) The game.

(3) Boston, once again, reflects sanity.

2. Restrict “public” review of plans to A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR, the Charles River Poisoner and her friends.

3. A responsible alternative WHICH WOULD BENEFIT CAMBRIDGE AND BOSTON WITHOUT the beloved massive destruction.

1. Introduction to the “initiatives.”

There are two “initiatives.”

A. Close the Memorial Drive on “Saturday.”

Memorial Drive is the state owned boulevard which follows the Charles River on its north side .  A LOT OF HARM HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE TO IT BY CAMBRIDGE AND BY MASSACHUSETTS’ DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION.  The pitch being passed on to well meaning people tells them not to look at the outrages already accomplished or planned, destruction of hundreds of mostly excellent trees.  Close Memorial Drive on Saturday.  Ignore the terrible record of government.  See our detailed video for the real record at https://youtu.be.com/dWyCdcWMuAA. 

The concept of closing Memorial Drive on Saturday IN ADDITION TO CLOSING IT ON SUNDAY was originated in City Council IMMEDIATELY after the City Council got a bunch of letters from people west of Harvard Square afraid that the Department of Conservation and Recreation was going to destroy more trees on Memorial Drive, this time in their portion.

Apparent friends of the City Council announced the creation of yet another possibly fake protective group, to close Memorial Drive on Saturday in addition to closing it on Sunday.  

Closing on Saturday very much will not happen because of the very great harm likely to too many people, BUT FIGHTING TO CLOSE IT WILL KEEP CONCERNED PEOPLE “OUT OF TROUBLE.”  

Crucial in the creation of this group is the repeated pattern of so many “protective” groups appearing in Cambridge when destructive action is likely, action which is favored by the “powers that be.”  

Such entities give the impression that“the right kind of people” are getting active.  The “right kind of people” in such groups commonly are dominated by development / contracting professionals and people with major connections to local institutions.  Folks dominating things neglect to mention dirty hands.

I have a lot of experience MEANINGFULLY GETTING THINGS DONE IN CAMBRIDGE.  My victories commonly have had such groups on the losing side.  Here is a map showing the most controversial part of my zoning victories, along with a table detailing those victories, WITH TOO MUCH HARM DONE TO THESE VICTORIES BY RECENT CITY COUNCIL ACTIONS.

“Activism” and suddenly appeared “protective groups” are a standard con when outrages are coming.  Get people to chase their tails, i.e. chase a nominally lovely idea which CANNOT GET DONE.  Get people to ignore the real problem which is connected to the city government / its friends.

In this instance the game is to distract people from destruction on the Charles River in the BU Bridge area.  Two key examples:

(1) Not to look at ongoing destruction FUNDED AND SUPPORTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL including destroying the excellent MicroCenter Grove on Magazine Beach across from the MicroCenter store.

The Cambridge City Council has funded an “activist” on this project who, acting as contractor for the DCR poisoned the Charles River.  She has given the City Council plans SHE HAS AGREED TO which would destroy that grove.

Here is the doomed grove:  

Here is the relevant part of the plans she gave to the Cambridge City Council showing that she has already approved creating the parking lot she supports replacing those trees with.

The number “3" in the middle of the current location of those trees.  The parking lot is on top of them.

Her most significant record is her poisoning of the Charles River as contractor for the DCR.

The key event was when Cambridge and the DCR started their heartless starvation of the 43 year resident Charles River White Geese.  This was pretty much the same time that the DCR and Cambridge started poisoning the previously pristine playing fields at Magazine Beach where the Charles River White Geese lived and fed.  Cambridge  and the DCR spent a bunch of money creating artificial drainage for poisons they should not even be dumping on the banks of the Charles River.

Here is how the Charles River Poisoner blocked that drainage.  The black area is plastic replacing healthy vegetation that constituted the drainage.  The healthy vegetation was pulled up and then carted away by the Cambridge Department of Public Works.  This was followed by blocking the drainage with the black plastic.  The blue area near the top is the Charles River.

Here is just one of a number of photos from Phil Barber that I have published of the resulting algae infestation when the poisons that had been drained away was rerouted into the Charles:

The filth the Charles River Poisoner created in turn created a public health emergency in the Charles River east of the Mass. Ave. Bridge which is the next bridge east of the BU Bridge.

So naturally, the Cambridge City Council paid her for planning environmental work.  She was “planning” work she and the DCR, as shown above, had already decided to do, and provided those plans to the Cambridge City Council.

Here are the DCR plans on Magazine Beach filed with the Cambridge Conservation Commission, as we passed them, along with photos, to the Cambridge City Council: http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/agenda1.pdf. 

(2) Not to look at YET AGAIN attempts to destroy the magnificent Wild Area east of the BU Bridge which powers that be in Cambridge have been to destroy since at least 1986.

Here is a photo of this excellent woods taken from the BU Bridge, with the Grand Junction Railroad / Bridge to the left and the ghetto to which the Charles River White Geese have been confined AND THEIR FOOD DESTROYED to the far left.

The white figures are members of the gaggle of the beloved 43 year resident Charles River White Geese hunting for food which has been increasingly destroyed by Cambridge and the DCR.

Cambridge and the DCR destroyed hundreds of trees on the Charles River between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge in 2016.  Here is my video / slide show memorializing that outrage:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o. 

The plans included destruction of the Wild Area.  Here is the relevant plan, showing exactly ONE OF THESE TREES NOT DESTROYED.

The Wild Area is to the right.  Note exactly one numbered circle / trees NOT DESTROYED in this thick woods.

The DCR did not do that destruction in 2016, but the stench is present now.  They are renewing their plans.  And originally announced those plans in a “public meeting” scheduled in a highly deceptive manner.

Here are the plans on Magazine Beach filed with the Cambridge Conservation Commission, as I passed them, along with photos, to the Cambridge City Council: http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/agenda1.pdf. 

Games have been played WITH A CITY COUNCIL WHICH HAS DONE REALLY DESTRUCTIVE STUFF IN RECENT YEARS, WHILE YELLING AT THE OTHER GUY. 

As part of the game, the DCR has apparently “agreed” to move “improvements” to Memorial Drive east of the River Street Bridge (first bridge WEST of the BU Bridge) to SECRET handling, with review only by A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR,  the Charles River Poisoner and friends, AS FRAUDULENT “PUBLIC INPUT.”  In place of supposedly meaningful review which would be done west of Harvard Square. 

B. The Grand Junction “Path.”

(1) General.

This supposed “improvement” would pretty up the Grand Junction Railroad starting several hundred feet north of Memorial Drive.  The discussion I observed included a RESPONSIBLE woman asking what goes on below the several hundred feet point.  The response of the bureaucrats was MISLEADING, to put it mildly.

As usual, the apparently visible part is innocuous, but there are very major problems.

(2) M.I.T.’s Private Ramp from I-90 and possibly further.

(a) Current status.

The best presentations on this proposal were done in a package from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the Cambridge City Council in 2014.  

The portion marked “MIT” has since been sold to Harvard.  Plans presented by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Company in 2003 would run a highway through pretty much the entire colored area, with access ramps to and from I-90 which can be seen in the lower left corner.  The new highway would cross the Charles River on a widened Grand Junction Bridge going under the BU Bridge, and would directly connect to I90 west bound (traveling to the upper left), By a ramp crossing I90 in the lower left corner.  The MBTA proposal would connect I90 east bound traffic to Cambridge.  THAT IS THE GAME.

The Destroyed Nesting Area, the ghetto to which the 43 year resident and beloved Charles River White Geese have been confined WITH ALL FOOD DESTROYED is between the Grand Junction and the BU Bridge.  The Wild Area is the area to the right of the Grand Junction following the Charles River.

From the same source, with one modification by us, M.I.T. showed the various options in play.

The area marked 5 is the connection to the Mass. Pike over the widened Grand Junction Bridge.  The route marked 2 is the current supposed proposal.  Under the current supposed proposal, the new bike path would connect from the Grand Junction to THE TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE at this block of Brookline Street, Cambridge.  

The area marked 4 is probably the one honest presentation of attacks on the Charles River White Geese.  This bike highway supposedly does not exist now YET.  The powers that be will suddenly “discover” THE TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE.  The new highway would be extended to destroy the already Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese and, preferably, from their point of view, to widen the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge in accordance with the MBTA report..

Following the Grand Junction up to the upper right, is a crossing to Vassar Street, parallel to the Grand Junction Railroad.  M.I.T. was proposing to connect the bike path to the Charles River by this route, marked 1.  Recently, the City Council voted for a change in property rights to allow what looks like a blockage of this route by another M.I.T. dormitory.  Following Vassar Street to the left, the street turns.  At this point, we have marked in the sane route for the bike path to access the Charles River.  This would require moving private parking in this location to a created parking terrace on the river side of Vassar Street which is currently used for unstructured parking.

The sales pitch from the bureaucrats in the Grand Junction Path meeting I attended to a responsible question told the questioner not to worry about what would be done between the currently proposed bike path and the river.  THE QUESTION OF THE RESPONSIBLE WOMAN WAS SHOUTED DOWN.

This is the area reflected in the plans above as being destroyed except for one tree in plans being maneuvered through maximum secrecy.

This is the Wild Area, which Cambridge bureaucrats have been trying to destroy since at least 1985.  A proposal initiated by me has killed a subway line proposal which would have crossed the Charles at this point.  That coming subway would now appear to be ending at Kenmore as a spur off the Orange Line running from Ruggles, in a partial implementation of my proposal.

This is the real destructive part, featuring and fully predictable, the Wild Area that the Cambridge bureaucrats have been trying to destroy since 1986.  A refuge of free animals, most visibly the loved Charles River White Geese.

Cambridge bureaucrats and the ALWAYS ACTIVE developer / contractor lobby hate free animals.  They have “no value.”  English translation; NO MONEY TO THE CONTRACTORS / DEVELOPERS.

So destroy, destroy, destroy.

(b) Prior game defeated.

The first attempt I was aware of was to run a subway through the Wild Area.  The contractor / developer / institution lobby shot themselves in the foot.  An initiative initially proposed by me has moved the subway proposal about a mile to the east, now probably terminating at Kenmore Square next to the Red Sox’ Fenway Park.

Key to that defeat of Cambridge’s Developer / Contractor lobby was a project across the street from Fenway Park based on the Commuter Rail station there, now called “Landsdowne Station.”  The bureaucrat’s beloved destruction of the Wild Area would have required moving Landsdowne Station a block from the heart of the Boston University campus.

Landsdowne Station has seen a gilding with public moneys and two new massive privately funded buildings as part of a now approved four building project.  The gilding of Landsdowne Station with state moneys came not that long after I informed the developer of Cambridge’s wish to move Landsdowne Station.  A key part of his project is the excellent transportation coming as part of the Superstation on the alternate subway route I proposed.

This project is associated with the alternative I proposed for the subway Cambridge has been fighting for which would destroy the Wild Area.  The subway alternative, instead of crossing the Charles River through the Wild Area, would go under playing fields of M.I.T., cross the Charles west of the Mass. Ave. Bridge (the next bridge east of the B.U. Bridge), create a superstation at Kenmore connecting to all Green Line branches there and to commuter rail, and then proceeding under Brookline Avenue (or so) with a possible station in the Brookline Avenue / Fenway area, a VERY IMPORTANT STATION at Louis Pasteur and Longwood supporting the Harvard / Longwood Medical Area, and then link at Ruggles Station to the Orange Line subway.  The northern end would connect to the Orange Line in Charlestown.

Cambridge / M.I.T. have played games to make the route north of the Charles much more expensive.  The obvious result is to simply build this subway line as an Orange Line spur running from Ruggles to the Superstation at Kenmore Square / Station.  The important part of the subway line is necessary transportation for the Massachusetts cash cow at the Harvard / Longwood Medical Area.  That can be very effectively accomplished with the subway terminating at Kenmore Square / Station.

Landsdowne Station with its gilding and the now approved four building project would be part of the superstation.  Landsdowne Station is not going to be moved.

On general principles, here is the gilded Landsdowne Station as part of the larger of the two existing buildings.  To the right of the station is I90.  The bridge in the rear of the photo is Beacon Street connecting Kenmore Square / Station to Brookline.  Behind the camera is the Brookline Avenue bridge connecting Kenmore Square / Station to Fenway Park.  That bridge will be a major part of the final two buildings in the Landsdowne project, including connection to Kenmore Square / Station as part of the coming Superstation.

Another loss for Cambridge’s destructive Developer / Contractor / Institution lobby.

(c) The game.

The Grand Junction “Path” game is a private exit from I90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) to M.I.T. and beyond, assisted by the lovely park being created WHICH CAN READILY BE DESTROYED FOR THE HIGHWAY KILLED FIFTY YEARS AGO.  The highway would go as far as the lobby can make it.

The Developer / Contractor / Institution lobby has fought to get state moneys to set up the beginning of that outrage, the upgrading of the Grand Junction railroad bridge as part of apparently needed improvements to I-90.  The private exit ramp / whatever will only work if that bridge is widened.

(3) Boston, once again, reflects sanity.

What is happening off that is up in the air.  The REAL PURPOSE has been to use state proper planning to counter the effect of fifty years of wear and tear on I-90 (Mass. Pike) across from Magazine Beach.  The planning has gotten distressingly secret although I followed it for years.  The visible part appears to be outrageous construction in the Charles River, but the always present widening of the Grand Junction railroad bridge could be in there.

Last I was hearing, powers in Boston seem to have blocked funding because the obvious part of the project would create yet another campus for Harvard University, the triangular Allston Village campus, wide at Soldiers Field Road on the Charles (the Boston correlative to Cambridge’s Memorial Drive), pointed at the other end a block from Boston’s Allston Village student area.  East and west boundaries would be Boston University West and an existing residential neighborhood plus a much larger existing residential neighborhood separated by Cambridge Street.  See my analysis above.

I have had two major victories in this project.  The part really being bragged about by the I-90 project management would connect Harvard’s new Allston Village campus to Soldier Field Road heading toward and from Downtown Boston.  That was my idea.  In fact, in an extremely unusual action for a MassDOT public meeting, I was shouted down by the chair when originally I made the suggestion.  He, in interrupting me, called my idea to rearrange the ramps outside the parameters of their authority.

Here is drone footage of the area from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw.  This shot is from minute 10.02.  The lower end of the photo shows the river / flat end of Harvard’s triangular Allston Village Campus at the point where the new intersection will be constructed.  On the near side of the river is the area where the Cambridge City Council is fighting to destroy the MicroCenter Grove.  Above the new intersection will be the Allston Village Campus.  The point of the triangle at the top is about one block from Allston Village.

At the bottom of this photo can be seen that portion of Magazine Beach in Cambridge WHERE THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER IS BEING PAID BY THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL TO “PLAN” DESTRUCTION OF THE MICROCENTER GROVE.  Earlier in this report are the plans SHE gave to the City Council years ago showing that she had already agreed to destroy the MicroCenter Grove.  The edge shown in this photo is immediately south of the doomed grove and to the left / east of the small building which is visible.

My other victory in the I-90 Project was to restrict the access from Soldiers Field Road to the River Street Bridge (next bridge west of the BU Bridge) so that the ramp only goes to Cambridge rather than the current situation where the ramp is clogged with traffic that would be moved to the new connector.  That bridge is the extension of the road to the right end of this photo.  The road continues to the right as the River Street Bridge, running over the Charles River.

What is being used by the Boston folk, it would appear, to restrict funding is the fact that the Allston Village Campus would have its street structure LAID OUT FOR HARVARD WITH STATE MONEY.  The Boston folk think Harvard should pay to create Harvard’s new campus.

Very helpful.  If Boston can kill the widening of the Grand Junction bridge, the building in the Charles, and Harvard’s nonsensical and DUPLICATIVE private commuter rail station keyed into, of course, building up the Grand Junction Railroad area in Cambridge, that would be excellent.

Harvard’s holdings date back to the time when the “Inner Belt” was killed for the time being.

But it is terrific to see Boston, once again, standing up to outrages centered in Cambridge.

2. Restrict “public” review of plans to A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR, the Charles River Poisoner and her friends.

The DCR plans have been “modified.”  The area west of Harvard Square gets “PUBLIC REVIEW.”

The area east of the River Street Bridge (the first bridge west of the BU Bridge has been transferred to SECRET PLANNING.  This is the real stuff, the dirty tricks.  The City of Cambridge has that truly fraudulent “protective group” which they DEMAND all :”public” discussions center on.

That fake protective group is really fake.  As detailed above, it is a one woman outrage.  The woman is the one who, as contractor for the DCR, poisoned the Charles River.  She has this very fake protective group which pretty much keeps all plans secret.  I have actually seen her / her people lie that no trees will be destroyed in the Magazine Beach reservation  in spite of destruction already achieved and planned for the future.  Cambridge demands nobody else be given access to plans.  

This situation is REALLY OUTRAGEOUS.  Fraudulent claims to “public review.”   NONSENSICAL CLAIMS OF “PUBLIC REVIEW “.

3. A responsible alternative WHICH WOULD BENEFIT CAMBRIDGE AND BOSTON WITHOUT the beloved massive destruction.

Harvard is pitching a private commuter rail station as a benefit to the neighborhood.  The usual nonsense.  Commuter rail service is, of necessity, so limited in trips that the neighborhood does not get meaningful benefit.

The impact on public transportation is destructive.  Harvard’s private station would be too close the existing new station next to the Everett Street Bridge over the Mass Pike and thus would bizarrely slow down commuters who really need commuter rail.  Responsible behavior would be bus service from this “Boston Landing” station to Harvard’s new Allston Village campus.

I have proposed public transportation which would benefit the residential North Allston neighborhood and provide direct connection between Harvard Square and Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, reducing traffic on the existing Red Line subway between Harvard Square and Downtown Boston, a Green Line A spur running from the intersection of the BU Bridge and Commonwealth avenue to Harvard’s Allston Village Campus above the upgraded I90, and then under North Harvard Street to the residential North Allston neighborhood (where I lived for a semester), and then to Harvard Square.

Such MEANINGFUL transportation improvement would truly be a benefit to the North Allston residential neighborhood, with underground stations at Cambridge Street and Franklin Street.

This proposal, because of the meaningful public transportation, would also be much more attractive to the Biden administration.  AND THUS PROVIDE MONEY BOSTON EXPECTS.  Additionally, the underground portion would make Boston investment highly appropriate.  Plus this connector spur would be of major benefit to Cambridge by improving access to Harvard Square and reducing traffic on the overloaded Red Line beween Harvard Square / Station and Park Street / Station.  It thus would make financial contribution by Cambridge highly appropriate.

But the Cambridge lobby of developers / contractors / institutions wants their bennies, including destruction of the BU Bridge area in Cambridge.

So the Cambridge City Council is telling people to chase their tails on Memorial Drive and ignore the outrages supported by the Cambridge City Council.

Here is my map of the responsible alternative.  Harvard’s Allston Village Campus is to the left of the lower curve of the river. Harvard Square is at the top middle, with three possible station locations marked.  At the bottom right is the BU Bridge.  The bottom end of the BU Bridge would be adjacent to the new Green Line A Spur.

Beloved Bald Eagle in neighboring Arlington poisoned. Cambridge and the DCR not known to STOP poisoning Magazine Beach.

RE: Beloved Bald Eagle in neighboring Arlington poisoned.  Cambridge and the DCR not known to STOP poisoning Magazine Beach.  Cambridge RESTRICTS advance knowledge of environmental actions in the BU Bridge area to the WOMAN WHO POISONED THE CHARLES AS AGENT FOR THE DCR.

1. Related outrage.  Beloved bald eagle poisoned.

2. Related letter to destructive Cambridge City Council.

3. The Charles River Poisoner, beloved by Cambridge government.

4. Charles River Poisoner and friends designated as THE ONLY ENTITIES ALLOWED FOR PUBLIC REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS IN THE AREA.

5. Cambridge Conservation Commission meetings are secret NOW before the fact, except for the date, with SOME POSSIBLE INFORMATION AFTER THE FACT.

6. Caveat.

1. Related outrage.  Beloved bald eagle poisoned.

Beloved bald eagle in next door Arlington killed by poisons.

The DCR (by its predecessor) and Cambridge started poisoning the banks of the Charles at about the same time they started deliberately starving the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese, 2008.

Here is a photo of the Charles River White Geese learning they were being starved by Cambridge.  At the time the poisons were introduced.

The usual fraud was key.  Cambridge and the DCR (including by its predecessor) brag of a supposedly holy Charles River Master Plan.  Key in the Master Plan was a LAWN TO THE RIVER which was the usual fraud.  

They starved the Charles River White Geese by introducing a bizarre wall at the river creating a situation where the Playing Fields might as well be ten miles inland.  The important goal, however, attacking the beloved and now 43 year resident Charles River White Geese, was accomplished by the Starvation Wall.  They kept the Charles River White Geese from the luscious grass on which they had fed and, if they got through the wall, by poisons such as those which killed that beloved Bald Eagle.   Dead bees have been seen, obviously because of this outrage.

Here is a photo of the Starvation Wall from the early 2010's, taken from the Boston Side.

The tiny opening has had multiple AND INCREASING obstacles constructed which perfects the heartlessness of the abuse.

The situation is so bad that the DCR has refused to promise not to introduce poisons on the Boston side of the Charles River in a coming park project ALSO IN A PRISTINE AREA, associated with the rebuilding of I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike).

2. Related letter to destructive Cambridge City Council.

The Cambridge, MA, USA, City Council received our latest letter on the ongoing outrages at its recent regular meeting which allowed public comment.  It may be read at:  https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3797&Inline=True, Pages 266 to 290.  I saw no action in the final actions of that meeting or in the agenda for February 6, 2023.  I also see no change in the secrecy of activities on the Charles River in the habitat of the Charles River White Geese.

The letter includes documentation on the poisoning of the Magazine Beach playing fields and goes into further analysis of the accelerating outrages.  It runs over 20 pages, too large to really handle here.  I have PDF copies (three files, too large for one) and would be pleased to provide them.  Please contact me for the PDF’s at boblat@yahoo.com.  

It starts with a slide summary as follows:

3. The Charles River Poisoner, beloved by Cambridge government.

At the time the destructive duo started to starve the Charles River White Geese and to poison the Magazine Beach playing fields where they have lived and fed for most of the last 43 years, the two constructed expensive drainage to drain off the poisons.

Here is the created drainage in a still from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw, minute 10.26.  Lining the Charles River is the Starvation Wall.

Here is a sign posted by the state bragging about the drainage needed to keep their poisons out of the Charles River.  They do not mention the fact that the poisons were introduced by them and Cambridge. 

Three photos by Phil Barber, combined by me.

A government contractor beloved by the Cambridge government, as a paid contractor for the DCR blocked the drainage using Trump / DCR funds and DCR provided “volunteers.”  

Here is a photo of the blockage.

The blue area near the top of the photo is the Charles River.

The following May, an algae pool appeared at the top of the “native” black plastic, to the left (in the picture) of the blockage.  

Here is Phil Barber’s photo.

The following September the filth had spread in the waters of the Charles River next to the blockage.

Here are TWO of a number of photos from Phil Barber of this outrage.

The following spring, the algae infestation had poisoned the Charles River below the Mass. Ave. Bridge, the next bridge east of the BU Bridge.  A fake protective group close to the DCR started objecting.

Previous work by the DCR / Cambridge destroyed hundreds of mostly excellent trees in this area, with the support of that fake protective group.  See my video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o. 

4. Charles River Poisoner and friends designated as THE ONLY ENTITIES ALLOWED FOR PUBLIC REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS IN THE AREA.

Advance PUBLIC REVIEWS of environmental projects are required.

Cambridge, through various maneuvers, has established that ONLY THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER AND FRIENDS ARE ALLOWED SUCH INFORMATION AND ESTABLISHED THAT ONLY THEY ARE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MANDATORY REVIEW.

An ongoing DCR work has been apparently modified to split off the BU Bridge area possible outrages, 

A. the destruction of the Wild Area, and 

B. the destruction of the Micro Center Grove, WHICH THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER AGREED TO YEARS AGO. 

The Charles River Poisoner gave the City Council a map showing the destruction she had agreed to  years before the Cambridge City Council funded her to provide “environmental” assistance in the area..

Here are the outrages:

The Micro Center Grove:

The Wild Area:

Photo is from the BU Bridge.  The railroad is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge.  

To the left is the Destroyed Nesting Area, the ghetto to which the 43 year resident Charles River White Geese are heartlessly confined.  The Destroyed Nesting Area was formerly lush with vegetation.  Almost all of that vegetation has been heartlessly destroyed by the DCR and its friends.

The map provided by the Charles River Poisoner to the Cambridge City Council showing destruction supported by her showed the entire Magazine Beach Recreation Area.  I have provided the entire map to the Cambridge City Council reproduced in three parts to make it readily understandable in letter format.

Here is the portion which includes the Micro Center grove blown up to focus on the Micro Center Grove.

The number 3 shows a parking lot where the Micro Center Grove currently stands.  The facilities below it are the MDC bathhouse and swimming pool.

In 2017, a group of city councilors held a May Day celebration on City Hall’s front steps in which they lied of environmental sainthood.  Their first motion of the night was to praise the DCR for its destructive plans on Magazine Beach and to offer financial support. 

The DCR’s plans to destroy 56 mostly excellent trees at Magazine Beach had already been filed with the Cambridge Conservation Commission.  I spent more than a month collecting photos of the outrage, and, by my letter of June 6, 2017 passed on to the Cambridge City Council my edits of the CCC filing along with corresponding photos.  That letter is posted at http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/agenda1.pdf.  Actual implementation is exceeding what was filed and is over 60.  The MDC filing and my letter include the destruction of the Micro Center Grove and a lot more outrages.

5. Cambridge Conservation Commission meetings are secret NOW before the fact, except for the date, with SOME POSSIBLE INFORMATION AFTER THE FACT.

My main source of information on actions in the BU Bridge area  area affecting the Charles River and its banks has been the Cambridge Conservation Commission which reviews the plans.

I was deleted from the mailing list of meetings and stayed off that distribution in spite of written objection with signed receipt.  

I have made multiple complaints of the censorship to the Cambridge City Council.  The complaints have been ignored.  Public meetings of entities would appear to be found on line through the web page of the City of Cambridge.

The Cambridge Conservation Commission NOW has a page on line.  I found it in preparing this report.  I found it on a Google search.  That page was not available on any prior Google search.  That is an “improvement” over the prior total secrecy.

The Cambridge Conservation Commission’s page NOW on line is at https://www.cambridgema.gov/Services/conservationcommission.

It has a link which provides only dates of meetings.  So there is no choice in advance other than to physically attend every meeting to determine activities in advance.

The list also does not state the location of meetings.  

The page NOW also has a link to videos.  At last check, the only 2023 video was of January 23.  The list says three meetings have occurred so far in 2023.  A ZOOM link is provided, which works.  The agenda shows at the beginning of the video.  The agenda includes a link to register for a ZOOM.  

There is no way to get the agenda in advance, and the ZOOM requires an access code which is in the agenda.  Same maximum secrecy.

The video page list is NOW a page supposedly giving access to meeting minutes and videos.

Checking prior meetings, a meeting and video were listed for December 19, 2022.  A pass code is required to see the ZOOM record.  The passcode did not work.  The minutes can be accessed through clicking on the date.

December 5, 2022.  The ZOOM link and pass code do work.  

When I have time, I will go back to see what I can find of the previously secret meetings.

So, it looks like, UNLESS A PARTICIPANT HAS INVITED “PUBLIC” participants, meetings are not open to the public, but NOW MAY BE FINDABLE AFTER THE FACT..

6. Caveat.

This report has been rewritten so extensively that I am gun shy.

Part of the situation is that I have tried to keep out of Cambridge political issues except for key environmental issues in areas where I see a chance for improvement.  Organizational changes may have improved things.  

Another part is that, over the years I have repeatedly griped about the same things.  It is entirely possible that these gripes have taken hold.  Another possible factor which comes into play is the SECRECY and duplicity which have been normal.  I can only read so many minds.  In particular, the letter I mention above and for which I reproduce the first page may have been important in the changes.  The lead page summarizes the key issues in a simple slide.  That simple slide could have communicated what pages of analysis did not get through.

Another matter of interest is that the bad apples scratch each other’s backs.  The woman who led the key outrage in Harvard Square showed up to yell on the side of destroying the BU Bridge area.  The Charles River Poisoner has started yelling in favor of a silly follow up zoning change initiated by the Harvard Square destroyer.  That gives the APPEARANCE of “improvement” while actually changing none of the very terrible outrages done by the City Council on her prior Harvard Square upzoning .

The trouble in preparation of this report is that things have been changing during my writing of this report.  The changes ARE NOT SUBSTANTIVE.  But the SECRECY and duplicity have been aided by the structural situation.  The Cambridge City Council hides behind this secrecy and duplicity.

That said, I am doing the best I can do.