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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Photos by JARED JERNAGAN, Editor
Making the journey from living to mulch in mere minutes, one of several downtown bradford pear trees meets its ultimate fate Wednesday morning. Crews from Crider & Crider contractors worked their way down the U.S. 231 corridor taking down trees Wednesday in advance of the next phase of the reconstruction project that will involve extensive work beginning on April 9 and continuing into fall. The rolling traffic backups experienced by motorists during work on Wednesday were but a taste of the larger and longer delays the spring and summer work is likely to bring, with traffic reduced to one lane for most of the time.
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Later, an excavator operator from Crider & Crider deftly avoids the nearby buildings to his right and the equipment to his left as he prepares to load an entire tree onto the waiting wood chipper.
Banner Graphic/JARED JERNAGAN
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  • Hopefully, in the future, the "Tree Committee' can make a better replacement selection than these bradford pear trees which tend to split as they age.

    -- Posted by Lookout on Wed, Mar 20, 2024, at 8:21 PM

  • And across the street from these photos, the courthouse cut down the flowering crabapple trees a couple years ago without any input from the public. Nice going.

    -- Posted by Ben Dover on Wed, Mar 20, 2024, at 8:32 PM

  • The Bradford/callery pear trees are also invasive. The guidance for years has been not to plant them at all.

    -- Posted by techphcy on Wed, Mar 20, 2024, at 8:44 PM

  • What about the trees lining the Southern Highway? If invasive trees are removed will they be replaced? These are memorial trees.

    -- Posted by Alfred E. on Thu, Mar 21, 2024, at 8:29 AM

  • Bradford pears are invasive. Pretty but invasive. Flowering crabapple is pretty for a short time in the spring but considered to have an unruly growth habit and doesn't provide much for most of the year.

    I have confidence the tree committee will make more informed and long term decisions.

    Maybe, just maybe, trees aren't needed in some of these areas where they are being removed.

    Unimpeded sight in a heavy traffic area is important for safety. Since I believe human life is important, whatever decision is made will hopefully have human safety as the most important filter. Reality and practical sense is/ are more important than emotions/ feelings.

    -- Posted by beg on Thu, Mar 21, 2024, at 11:59 PM
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