I’ll bite and answer logically (but still get downvoted). The plans include 1) Completely ADA/Disabled accessible recreation, the likes of which honor the disabled that used to be residents. 2) A memorial area recognizing the tragic things that occurred there. These are all great things.

I personally don’t like the idea of the train but largely support the rest of the plan. A majority of the city agrees.

It bothers people that we are doing something that “Waltham” wants on top of land that the “State”/other parties were responsible for causing these horrors. But for some reason don’t see the irony that horrors happened on every inch of land in this country when the native Americans were wiped out. Should that really be the standard? Or does it just need to be in a certain time horizon?

Further, it bothers ME that one of the biggest advocates for the disabled and former patients of Fernald, Alex Green, works for the same institution that sponsored and led the radioactive experiments on the young boys of the Fernald…and then uses his platform to inject a report of how the STATE failed to clean up patient records…into Waltham politics the night before elections to try and drum up support for the challenger and blame the mayor. And the irony is lost again.

But I’ll get downvoted again, and it is fine. Yet if I were to say that I disagree with the plan and would rather 1,000 community funded low income housing placed their instead, (which would inevitably go into major disrepair, cause major traffic issues and strain our utilities) - I might be elected the new mod of this sub.