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The price is worth paying, and planting more trees will bring the cost per tree down.

• wodenokoto 10y ago
  > The price is worth paying I looked up prices as I was initially in doubt if this was a good cost-benefit. This article claims that New York Cty trees have a lifetime cost of ~3,500 USD (in gardening). I was under the impression of a much higher annual cost, so I was way off in my initial reasoning. This report puts annual gardening costs of Portland trees at around 40usd [1] These numbers do not include added road, curb and sidewalk maintenance incurred by the tree, as far as I can tell. [0]http://scienceline.org/2013/10/the-high-cost-of-carbon-in-city-trees/ http://scienceline.org/2013/10/the-high-cost-of-carbon-in-ci... [1] https://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/article/514095 https://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/article/514095
• dsfyu404ed 10y ago
  At the end of the day it's money not being spent on something else. Would you rather spend 4min sitting in traffic on a tree lined street because plans to upgrade a 4way stop to something that can handle more volume was canned in favor of adding trees. Pretty is nice but beauty without function gets old really quick.