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Where I live, Sheffield in the UK, the council was nearly toppled because they chopped down some street trees. They still haven't fully recovered from it: http

Where I live, Sheffield in the UK, the council was nearly toppled because they chopped down some street trees. They still haven't fully recovered from it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_tree_felling_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_tree_felling_protest...

rob74 2y ago
I'm also against chopping down trees - but sometimes tree protection turns into a pretext for NIMBYism, especially if it's against projects that are also good for the environment, such as public transport (felling 189 trees for a bus lane sounds like a lot, but if the trees shown in this photo https://proarbmagazine.com/controversial-sheffield-bus-lane-plan-see-188-trees-axed/ https://proarbmagazine.com/controversial-sheffield-bus-lane-... are representative, those look more like shrubs)
- buro9 2y ago
  There are a lot of species that may be misinterpreted as a shrub, i.e. a Hazel tree https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/hazel/ https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/br... is dense, and forms many smaller straighter branches shooting up in parallel... could easily be mistaken as a shrub as this next pic shows https://cotswoldtrees.com/hazel-corylus-avellana/ https://cotswoldtrees.com/hazel-corylus-avellana/ . Still a tree though, and all trees are good trees.
  - pvaldes 2y ago
    Hazelnut on cities are mainly from two different species. Corylus avellana is clearly a shrub, even if can grow 6m high with time, and will recover fast from being chopped, but the other species is a tree.
- benoliver999 2y ago
  It was a bigger scale. The plan was to cut down 17,500 of 35,500 street trees, all due to a total mis-reading of a report. Instead of backing down the council ploughed on, got people arrested and even tried to jail one of its own councillors for protesting. It was a huge fiasco.
- pastage 2y ago
  "one more lane" a buss lane means more hard and hot surfaces in a city. As long as you just add hard surfaces you are still making things worse. With that said buss lanes are more important than car lanes.

rob74 2y ago

I'm also against chopping down trees - but sometimes tree protection turns into a pretext for NIMBYism, especially if it's against projects that are also good for the environment, such as public transport (felling 189 trees for a bus lane sounds like a lot, but if the trees shown in this photo https://proarbmagazine.com/controversial-sheffield-bus-lane-plan-see-188-trees-axed/ https://proarbmagazine.com/controversial-sheffield-bus-lane-... are representative, those look more like shrubs)

buro9 2y ago
There are a lot of species that may be misinterpreted as a shrub, i.e. a Hazel tree https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/hazel/ https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/br... is dense, and forms many smaller straighter branches shooting up in parallel... could easily be mistaken as a shrub as this next pic shows https://cotswoldtrees.com/hazel-corylus-avellana/ https://cotswoldtrees.com/hazel-corylus-avellana/ . Still a tree though, and all trees are good trees.
- pvaldes 2y ago
  Hazelnut on cities are mainly from two different species. Corylus avellana is clearly a shrub, even if can grow 6m high with time, and will recover fast from being chopped, but the other species is a tree.
benoliver999 2y ago
It was a bigger scale. The plan was to cut down 17,500 of 35,500 street trees, all due to a total mis-reading of a report. Instead of backing down the council ploughed on, got people arrested and even tried to jail one of its own councillors for protesting. It was a huge fiasco.
pastage 2y ago
"one more lane" a buss lane means more hard and hot surfaces in a city. As long as you just add hard surfaces you are still making things worse. With that said buss lanes are more important than car lanes.