Comments on: Death of trees causes grief to Patterson’s funeral home http://saportareport.com/blog/2010/07/death-of-trees-causes-grief-to-pattersons-funeral-home/ Maria Saporta is a longtime Atlanta business, civic and urban affairs journalist with a deep knowledge of our city, our region and state. Wed, 23 May 2012 10:10:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Streetscape Facts http://saportareport.com/blog/2010/07/death-of-trees-causes-grief-to-pattersons-funeral-home/comment-page-1/#comment-5312 Streetscape Facts Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:25:34 +0000 http://saportareport.com/blog/?p=4370#comment-5312 MTP, if by "the best looking (healthy) trees" you mean the ones in front of One Atlantic Center, it was the new storm sewer installed by GDOT that took the trees out, not the fancy street lights. However, the real shame along 14th Street is Georgia Power's high-voltage transmission lines. Georgia Power's easement grants them the right to chop the tops off all those trees so they don't suddenly (and magically) grow up into the lines. MTP, if by “the best looking (healthy) trees” you mean the ones in front of One Atlantic Center, it was the new storm sewer installed by GDOT that took the trees out, not the fancy street lights. However, the real shame along 14th Street is Georgia Power’s high-voltage transmission lines. Georgia Power’s easement grants them the right to chop the tops off all those trees so they don’t suddenly (and magically) grow up into the lines.

]]> By: Yr1215 http://saportareport.com/blog/2010/07/death-of-trees-causes-grief-to-pattersons-funeral-home/comment-page-1/#comment-5298 Yr1215 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:15:25 +0000 http://saportareport.com/blog/?p=4370#comment-5298 MTP, you're crazy. I know of several healthy big trees in Midtown. And I think improving the streetscaping is a very good idea. While we should do things to mitigate the heat island effect, its not killing all the trees. You're on the same page as the people who don't believe global warming exists because it gets cold in the winter. Extrapolating a trend from one data point is absurd. MTP, you’re crazy. I know of several healthy big trees in Midtown. And I think improving the streetscaping is a very good idea. While we should do things to mitigate the heat island effect, its not killing all the trees.

You’re on the same page as the people who don’t believe global warming exists because it gets cold in the winter. Extrapolating a trend from one data point is absurd.

]]> By: Midtown tree planter http://saportareport.com/blog/2010/07/death-of-trees-causes-grief-to-pattersons-funeral-home/comment-page-1/#comment-5288 Midtown tree planter Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:35:08 +0000 http://saportareport.com/blog/?p=4370#comment-5288 Sad, but not surprising. The stress from years upon years of drought, made much worse by the heat island effect of the Midtown commercial corridor causing most rain to bypass the area, makes it much worse for Midtown trees than elsewhere. So now what few new trees are planted don't stand a chance of becoming well-established and thus healthy, long-lived trees. Fewer trees, fewer green patches, more heat, less rain, more air pollution (no trees nor rain to clean the air). I still can't believe that the best looking (healthy) trees in the Midtown commercial corridor were cut down to make way for putting up fancy street lights along 14th Street. Sad, but not surprising.
The stress from years upon years of drought, made much worse by the heat island effect of the Midtown commercial corridor causing most rain to bypass the area, makes it much worse for Midtown trees than elsewhere. So now what few new trees are planted don’t stand a chance of becoming well-established and thus healthy, long-lived trees. Fewer trees, fewer green patches, more heat, less rain, more air pollution (no trees nor rain to clean the air).
I still can’t believe that the best looking (healthy) trees in the Midtown commercial corridor were cut down to make way for putting up fancy street lights along 14th Street.

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