I just got off the phone with the BFRT surveyors! As has been reported, the only choices for most of the questions were to leave it alone, make it into a stone...
... I wish I would get a call! I sorely want to know what the real wording is.. ... The old Reformatory branch (goes through Concord, past the lumber yard, ...
Well...well... WHO is funding this survey? I think they should make themselves known, or discredit the results of their survey. How do we know how honest...
I am offering a free ice cream at Kimball's in Carlisle, up to and including a banana split, to who ever can definitively out the person, persons or...
I got surveyed tonight as well. I also asked who sponsored the survey, and the caller said the same thing ("group of Concord citizens," etc.). I -believe- he...
... I can understand the frustration with not having the group identified - but if it isn't a named group, then what? I also find it quite odd that because...
now, instead of keeping the discussion on this list focused on the pros and cons of various trail ideas, we have been sandbagged by the people who commissioned...
... I am getting the feeling that people are reacting like the survey has "Have you stopped beating your wife" style questions...where none of the questions...
In political campaigns, organizations or candidates are required to identify themselves when making calls. Since the BFRT issue is not (yet) the subject of an...
... It seems secrecy creates a concern about integrity and transparency. It brings into question at minimum how the survey results will be used or abused, and...
... gain by ... Julie, The caller claims to be conducting a 'survey' - an honest attempt to understand (rather than to manipulate) how people feel on an issue....
... Or poor judgement. Or arrogance. Or... you name it. Isn't a mystery compelling? Some can keep folks from thinking about anything but until it's solved. -d...
In my case, I said I -wanted- to answer in a way that would annoy them. I actually answered each question as truthfully as I could. I'm much more annoyed by...
Good point. Let me amend what I said before: "We dont' trust you with our identity, and we don't trust you to have a worthwhile opinion unless it's the one we...
I would think that if the trains didn't stop the wildlife, the trail won't either. None of the interstates, cyclists and/or development is preventing the...
I have some questions: Why are you answering the questions at all when you know they are highly biased? Someone who comes up with a survey like this isn't...
... It's not the left/right of the corridor :) it's the length of it.. being able to travel, in this case, north and south. A design sensitive to that concern...
Dear Neighbors: I'm confused. Maybe the trains did have an adverse impact on the wildlife in the area, maybe it didn't. More to the point, in the years that...
The edition of the Sunday Globe that we get way out here in western MA, had an article about the Minuteman Trail. Given the lack of discussion of that article...
Betty Proper
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Jul 2, 2007 2:36 pm
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... I have no doubt the trails were a negative impact. The trick here is that we abandoned the train but then developed more and more land around the private...
... I remember reading many warnings about boric acid across the years. I just checked a few web sites and it would appear that it depends.... One site quoted...
Betty Proper
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Jul 2, 2007 2:43 pm
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If you come in from the garden and do your tick ritual, including dumping what you have on into the washer and turning it on to get rid of the ticks, will the...
Our edition of the Globe had the article(s). The problem for me with using them as a guide for the BFRT is that the Minuteman bike trail follows a much more...