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Originally Posted by COtoOC
I finally got around to walking 16th St. last week and was impressed. It was Tuesday afternoon between lunch and dinner crowds, so not all that crowded. But there were people everywhere and definitely a police presence. I only saw a couple homeless people minding their business and one guy playing guitar who appeared to have a city permit. DUS was quite busy. Overall, a definite improvement. My only complaint was that a few of the trees already could use a little trimming with branches in the way as we walked by.
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They really did do a good job with it, even though most of the work is "behind/under the scenes" if you will.
I made a similar comment about the eye-pokers on the street about a year ago. Really shouldn't trim trees while they are actively growing. I know that they are monitoring the health of the trees as one that was placed along the street between Tremont and Court and didn't survive has already been replaced. I am glad that they didn't go cheap when they picked the trees for that project. Most were about 30' tall when installed and the base of all of them is about 18-24" below the surface.
But, one of those hidden reasons why the tree canopy is growing in so nicely is due to the strata vault system that is well below the surface of the street/sidewalks.
Here is what it looks like:
And here is how it works:
https://citygreen.com/product-category/soil-vault-systems/
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