Cogswell Avenue Resident

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    8 Cogswell Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02140 - North Cambridge
    Request this tree be taken down. It is old and in its last 'throes' of life, and certainly a menace to cars and pedestrians. This tree has been reported for culling before but no action resulted. Please send team to reconsider its viability/safety. Numerous branches have come down over the years and they are getting bigger, so its threat has increased.
  • 8 Cogswell Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02140 - North Cambridge
    Two downed branches, one large and one medium, from cabled tree at 8 Cogswell Avenue, blocking sidewalk and street parking. Will submit another 'complaint' asking that this tree be taken down. It is old and in its last 'throes' of life, and certainly a menace to cars and pedestrians. This tree has been reported for culling before but no action resulted. Please send team to reconsider its viability/safety. Numerous branches have come down over the years and they are getting bigger so its threat has increased.
  • Walden St & Mead St Cambridge, MA, 02140, USA - North Cambridge

    This is a hazard and an accident with legal consequences waiting to happen; one much reported on for years and years. We even had a neighborhood meeting at Lesley College in Porter with Patrick Baxter and others from the city traffic and engineering offices. While this traffic died down a bit during quarantine, we are back to pre-Covid levels of traffic and cars again are dangerously cutting through from Walden to Mead to Cogswell to avoid the back-up on Walden created by the long Mass Ave light and the parked cars on Walden near Mass Ave that blocks access to the lane for right turning traffic. Neighbors have all concluded that nothing was done about this because the city could not go on record, officially, to agree with traffic issues because that would confirm that traffic is indeed an issue when the developer Capstone and Hope claim through a traffic & parking study that there are not any traffic or parking issues. With the help of city manager Louie DePasquale, the Planning Board and the Board of Zoning Appeal, these developers seek a 40B Comprehensive Permit and want to develop the corner of Walden and Mass Ave (2072 Mass Ave). The developers were continued twice and recently submitted a letter to withdraw their application, yet remain committed to developing 2072 Mass Ave.

    Of course nothing has been done to mitigate traffic issues or dangers because such an admission would make the development a no-go. Clearly this is a legally binding issue at this point and the city needs to respond: we are being left at risk in the hopes that for profit developers can win a contract and the city can tick off a box or two for 'affordable housing.' This playbook is not fair or transparent and the neighborhood calls on the city to return to the traffic and parking issue on the streets Walden, Mead, Cogswell and Mass Ave at 2072. It is time to serve the people whose taxes pay city employee salaries; it is not the time to serve the developers.

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    33 Walden St Cambridge, MA, 02140, USA - North Cambridge
    This issue was first reported in 2016; three years later in 2019, the situation is ever more precarious and dangerous to Cogswell Ave residents, especially elderly and those with kids. Nothing has been done. This street needs to be closed to non residents, otherwise there is a real issue and severe accident/ disaster waiting to happen. If this situation has been reassigned and Hanes to other Department, we need to know which one and a contact person in charge for transparency and feedback purposes.
  • 8 Cogswell Ave Cambridge, MA, 02140, USA - North Cambridge
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    Mead Street & Cogswell Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts - North Cambridge
    Traffic speeds through and bottlenecks every afternoon: people use these streets to avoid the back up at the mass ave light as they come down the bridge on Walden Street; they seem to want to cut across mass ave from Cogswell to Russel street. It's not easy to get across mass ave from Cogswell in the afternoons so traffic backs up, jams, bottlenecks, making it impossible for we who live on this street to go anywhere: we are virtually trapped. For reasons of kids in the neighborhood and any emergency we might face and need to get in a car and seek help, we are severely constrained. There needs to be a sign posted "Do Not Enter" from 3-7 at corner of Walden and Mead Street or some such to correct this problem.