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Forest Hills bus yard to become beetle grindhouse
By adamg on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 8:29pm
The JPVoice reports that federal and state bug officials will put a half-acre tree-grinding facility at the MBTA's Forest Hills bus yard to grind branches and trunks - and any beetles and larvae they may house - into tiny little chips.
For possibly the next four years, people and businesses within a roughly 1.5-mile radius of Faulkner Hospital - where a number of the tree-killing beetles and their demonspawn were found earlier this month - are forbidden from carrying anything coming from their trees out of the area. The giant wood chipper would be just for people within the zone.
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Not fair
"The giant wood chipper would be just for people within the zone."
There's plenty of people in other zones who deserve to be put through the chipper.
Does that include fruit and flowers?
You said "forbidden from carrying anything coming from their trees out of the area" -- does that apply to flowers, fruits, and seeds, or just wood?
Also, I doubt that the entire MBTA bus yard is being converted to a wood chipper.
No and no
We're talking about things a beetle would drill into to unleash millions of wriggling larvae that probably really wish they could climb into your ear, like that thing Khan's people put in Chekov's ear in Star Trek II, but they can't get into your ear because they're trapped inside a tree, bwa-ha-ha.
So things like branches, stumps, logs, etc.
No, the entire bus yard is not being converted into a giant wood chipper, as interesting a project as that would be. They're taking about a half-acre of the yard for chipping, and I'm betting some of that is for trucks to unload stuff.
Sorry for the buggy post.
More noise?
How much noise will this add to the area? Jamaica Plain south of Stony Brook, and proximate to the train tracks, is already regularly insulted by roaring jets that create an illusion of Al Quada attacks, incessant announcements bleeding from the T platforms, the noise from rushing commuter lines and the jarring racket of subway trains, the motorcyclists who are trying to deafen their neighbors and the boom boom cars driven by thugs engaged in passive-aggressive neighborhood destruction.
Now add a permanent (for four years at least) wood chipper?
That was my first thought but...
I think you are going a bit overboard here. Those rail lines have been around for a very long time so anyway who does not like the noise should not move near the same. I am not sure where your "roaring jets that create an illusion of Al Quada attacks" is coming from, but I think you are going a bit overboard there and every neighborhood and town has unmuffled motorcyclists (I live in Dedham and we get plenty of unmuffles) roaring through as well as "boom boom" cars - I lived in JP in the 1980s and there were many, many more "boom boom" cars driving through...I can assure you.
Plus the Forest Hills bus yard has been around for a long time...
Living in a city means noise. If ya don't like noise, then move to upstate Vermont!
Well
when the morons at the city proposed putting the woodchipper in Franklin Park (WTF!!! Yes, please, let's put a bunch of beetle infested wood in extremely close proximity to the largest park in Boston, makes total sense!) they said the noise would carry for 1/2 mile radius.
The link goes to a dead page
The link goes to a dead page on an anonymous blog.
They changed the URL, sigh
Fixed, but here it is again, just in case:
http://www.thejpvoice.com/2010/07/848/
...although...
...you sort of have to feel bad for the abutters; it's just another ugly piece of machinery that they will have to stare at. Wasn't there supposed to be some sort of beautification effort undertaken there that never came to fruition? Or am I mistaken?
It's a bus yard. It used to
It's a bus yard. It used to be a bus and streetcar yard, and now it's a bus yard. Railroad and rapid transit trains are next door. This has been going on for a hundred years. How much beautification can you expect at a bus yard? If you don't like noise, move to a nice quiet suburb.
Abutters?
There are no abutters. The yard takes up a whole block (or would if Stonley went through). The closest thing to residential abutters (Plainfield, Brookley, etc.) are on the other side of a junkyard and a bunch of light industry. A pile of wood chips would improve their view.