Will the streets be lined with stumps?
A sweltering, slow run with the sun bearing down on me in New London today cemented my belief that cutting down more trees in New London is a bad idea.
According to the New London Times, the city’s Public Works department is proposing to chop down 84 trees, which includes many completely healthy ones. It is the first phase of a multiyear 10-mile beautification project that involves repaving roads and installing new sidewalks and curbs.
The Public Works department believes the trees need to be removed because they are lifting up the roads and sidewalks, and they are interfering with telephone lines. However, I’m wondering why the $108,000 that would be spent on removing the trees couldn’t be put towards working around the trees.
It is also troubling that there is currently no plan to replace trees that are cut down.
For more info, see: “A Changing Landscape: City considers mass tree removal”
Check out Ocean Avenue – Pequot Avenue Run for a 5-mile running route in New London (while there are still trees).
On Wednesday, July 15, from 2–3:30pm the Mashantucket Pequot Museum will host a reading and discussion of Ellison “Tarzan” Brown: The Narragansett Indian Who Twice Won the Boston Marathon.
Today is National Running Day, a time to come together and become more healthy and fit as a nation. The aim of National Running Day is to promote jogging as an accessible form of exercise- all you need are comfortable clothes and a good pair of running shoes!
