Booo! I hate this kind of thing.
I'm sure the metal structures to support cables will be so much more attractive than the cut down trees...
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Trams versus Trees
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Posted 13 years ago #
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To be fair, they are planting 37 new trees after they finish: 14 more than they've cut down.
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Don't read the comments, will. to. live.... draining.
"So some anonymous spokes-bimbo from the kooncil says 'the work is necessary and that the trees will be replaced with semi-mature ones in two years’ time'. And HOW long has the Heart of Midlothian War Memorial been 'temporarily' removed from Haymarket??"
Not even sure where the spokes attack comes from. Mind numbing stupidity... And then there is the comments.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I think 'spokes-bimbo' is an amendment to 'spokesman'...
Crowriver, absolutely, that's what they... say... I'll happily be proved wrong, but as one commenter points out that was supposed to happen on Leith Walk and hasn't yet. AND it's in two years time. Healthy, mature trees simply removed, no questions allowed. Sorry, I just find it sad, no matter how many trees they think they're going to replace them with.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I find it sad too. I remember they were widening a road in the centre of Dundee a few years ago, and they chopped down a load of trees which had been there I guess since the 1980s at least. They used to form a screen, beyond which was the train station car park. Now has Scottish Enterprise and HMRC offices. Trees were never replaced.
I was actually walking past when they were chainsawing the trees and overheard a young Dundonian passerby opine sarcastically "Take that, you trees! Give us some bloody oxygen, will ya?"
Ah, Dundonian gallows humour.
Posted 13 years ago # -
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Uproar as thousands of trees axed for tram routeEDINBURGH'S beleaguered tram scheme has been plunged into fresh controversy, with thousands of trees being chopped down to make way for the route.
The city council last night admitted to The Herald that 3321 trees are being felled along the tram system's nine-mile route from the airport to St Andrew Square, with the majority already gone.
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Posted 13 years ago # -
"Most of those being removed are in the Gogar tram depot area"
Had a look on Google Earth to see what it looked like 'before', but the tram works have been going on for so long that Google just shows a big building site at Gogar.
If over 3000 trees have been taken down for the tram then there must be 10s of thousands that have come down for the new Forth crossing - a small forest by the M9, plus a huge swathe of mature trees (just north of Newbrisge). And a vast area on the noth side of the Forth too.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Yeah, if you go into North Queensferry you can see the massive logging operation removing the trees along the route of the new bridge. I think once they had decided to make the omelette the fate of the eggs was sealed.
I'm chopping down a holly tree in my garden in an act of wanton vandalism.
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