100 Year Old Trees Felled in Dublin

by stupified Sun Nov 03, 2002 17:52

"A spokesman for Dublin City Council said.... all the trees on the street will be "recycled in the coming months", despite strong protests from environmentalists".

???how do you recycle a tree???

by me Sun Nov 03, 2002 18:15

You take it of to some place (?) and turn it into paper cups, give it to the planners to drink out off (while they swagger about their erections) and hope they throw it in the green bin.

by Brian Sun Nov 03, 2002 18:19

rest assured some big fat city planner hiding in Dublin Corportation has just scored himself a new desk and office suite

by John Henderson - suparama Mon Nov 04, 2002 12:52 supa.john at suparama dot com London (Irish born)

Cut down a tree thats full or Irish History to allow a crane one days access to erect a modern art piece. What a ridiculous idea. How can this be justified. The trees on O'Connell street make the street. If they are removed, O'Connell St will become the same as any other grey and lifeless street.

by r Mon Nov 04, 2002 13:40

London plane trees (the type in question) are ingenious environmentalists. Typically they shed their bark every few weeks/months (and leaves in winter) which means, in a place like Dublin city, a lot of polution is gathered and shed (and the bark replenished) by the nature of these trees.

Ah sure, ye never know, they might replace them with another 'arty' metal oak tree like the one at the central bank, won't that be lovel?

r

by Flokey - free floating and keen Mon Nov 04, 2002 20:49

I wonder if they'd recognise it now 86 years later. The trees are great for keeping off the rain, and they're nice, and who the hell wants a big ugly spike (other than people being paid to build it)

trees are free... and they're alive, like people are supposed to be, free and alive.
not half aslumber and codding themselves about Irish democracy.

by curious Mon Nov 04, 2002 21:10

had a look at that really wide street today, surely you dont need to cut down trees to construct those cranes that are used everywhere else for building offices, do they plan to drive a monster like the one that was working near the port tunnel up the street, maybe we can decorate it and make it part of st patricks day. Also just wondering, down near the o'connell monument, seems to have less foliage and is it true that their are kiosks going there, most european style kiosks fit neatly into the streetscape, if you need to fell trees they must be pretty big kiosks, am i paranoid in picturing the council dreaming of something as beautiful as a drive thru mcdonalds or maybe a somewhere for a coffee chain to make us love our new cosmopolitan lifeststyles. Where can i see plans etc for the beautification of our lovely hamlet.

by Tree Tue Nov 05, 2002 00:17

Is there nothing we can do about this?