Medford Looks Like a Third World Country These Days: Unacceptable

 1,675,612 @ 6:57 pm August 17, 2020 - 54 years after Beatles  played Toronto for their last tour!

The Goal is to Improve Medford and MBTA

Medford Looks Like a Third World Country These Days:  Unacceptable 

Around 590 Fellsway Dunking Donuts

Daria Tehera

Mayor Lungo-Koehn

George P. Hassett Drive

Medford MA 02155

RE: The Goal is to Improve Medford and MBTA

See photos here: https://medfordinformationcentral.blogspot.com/2020/08/medford-looks-like-third-world-country.html

Medford Looks Like a Third World Country These Days:  Unacceptable
Around 590 Fellsway Dunking Donuts

Dear Daria,

I decided to walk home from the doctor's Somerville's office today - nice air to take in and get some exercise, take pictures of the ducks, the swans ---- some time away from my deadlines and enormous workload.  Yet I am putting my work on pause, again, because of what my eyes

beheld on that walk back to the house.

Concerning to every citizen that takes the T in Medford, Malden and beyond was the unbelievably horrifying and unacceptable state of the MBTA bus stops on the Fellsway.

Forget the 1.00$ fine for jaywalking, how about a Fifty Dollar fine for leaving food during the Covid pandemic at places where people congregate?

This is as much the fault of the MBTA as it is the state highway department, but Medford city councilors and the mayor cannot hide their collective heads in the sand on this.  They need to get on the phone and get these messes cleaned up!

The biggest offender appears to be Dunkin Donuts' customers with the Mass. State lottery in a close second.   As the bus to Lebanon Square (the 108) came I couldn't snap the last photo near Stop and Shop of 5 Dunkin Donuts cups all in a row, and a bunch on the ground.  It is so revolting.

There is NO MEDFORD PRIDE in the despoiled Fellsway - a pure theft of our natural resources.   

So when residents tell me that it's not the mayor's problem being on a state highway I ask politely, what city are we living in?   It IS the mayor's responsibility, even if she is busy busy busy

coddling Mike Nestor over there at the DPW...tell Nestor to pick up the phone and get the MBTA or Mass Highway Dept crew to clean these messes up every other day.

To add insult to injury the mayor's law office is a stone's throw from Wellington Circle Plaza, the Dunkins at 620 Fellsway or so.

This mess goes the entire length of the Fellsway.  Check out Target store on Salem Street ...someone needs to talk to a manager there about not having refuse around the trash buckets, and cleaning up their side of the MBTA stop all the way to the auto place on the corner.

Litter is everywhere in Medford and Malden, but the excuse that the Fellsway is a state highway is pathetic.

You want to see the residents aware of this and get people to start behaving.  It's very simple, put me in charge of the public access station that we really don't have, keep Pat Gordon to run your "government channel" (because that's all he is doing right now, the bidding of the city government.)  I'll give you

one better, cut his salary in half, pay me the 35K a year for the public channel, Gordon 35,000.00 to keep Michael Marks and the council happy, and watch Medford come alive.  Mr. Gordon can learn a thing or two about work ethic from his elders!

Of course the mayor campaigning on hiring the best people was just hot air for the election.    

You know a simple public records request on her administration, which I call not-so-affectionately Rodrigues, Colaianni and Piques, LLC will prove my point.    You, Daria, have been an excellent public servant, as has Kimberly Scanlon, Chief Gilberti, so few and far between.   Why isn't Hank Morse in the administration?  The city just lost him to WBOQ - one of my favorite stations (a.k.a. Northsore 104)   

Why isn't the mayor working closely with Natalie Breen, Erin DiBenedetto, Jean Nuzzo, Cheryl Rodriguez, people the public praise if you are listening to the buzz around town?   A lot of talent in Medford has gone wasted, and look at these photos that I didn't go out looking for...just taking a walk a senior citizen runs into this mess on the way home.     Getting on the 108 bus (the 100 to Target is better for me but it was 20 minutes away) I had to put up with a Covid nightmare of unhealthy trash.

My new home is sparkling clean and spacious as I keep the records and books in storage (though I'm just as comfortable around thousands of books and records) - and bring in help to keep the place tidy.  Being on the "disabled list" it is a bit more difficult on my own these days. 

It's easy to get into the habit. 

Medford looks like a third world country...and shame on the MBTA for having such a health hazard at multiple stops.

Put me in charge of public access, Daria, allow a professional with 41 years experience to get the public motivated, and watch the membership flourish and the access airwaves come alive, even during this pandemic.   

The sad thing about Breanna Lungo-Koehn's unfulfilled promises is that Medford actually

has the talent to be a very special place.   Rodrigues, Colaianni and Piques, LLC are not qualified, in my opinion, to do the job that needs to be done.

Let these photographs be exhibit A.

 

Respectfully,

Joe Viglione