Washington Ave Maintenance 9 Months Later
Last July 9th I did a post called, “Washington Ave Suffering From Deferred Maintenance” which focused on nearly 10 missing street trees on what had been a very expensive streetscape. I included numerous pictures like this one:
Four days later I reported that the “Forestry Dept Begins Long-Overdue Street Tree Maintenance on Washington Ave. They must have been testing the process to grind out the stumps because they only did one that weekend.
But eventually they all got removed and replanted.
The newly planted trees are budding out too.
But they won’t all do well. The above tree is not planted correctly:
If this tree lives it will begin to grow into the grate on the right. Most of the other trees seem to be planted reasonably centered in the area provided. I happened to spot this one yesterday. Is it too late to move it?
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Don’t worry; it will die long before its trunk’s circumference is that large.
Wouldn’t it be easier to reconfigure the positioning of the grate and paving stones a bit, so that the tree is centered, rather than digging up and replanting the tree?
I was thinking the same as Jay, it’s not like the detailing is exactly Miesian anyway
Steve,
The new trees are an improvement, I get worried about maintenance too.
I called the Streets Dept several times and they finally replaced 21 burned out lights on Wash Ave and any side streets included in the 1999 improvements. Thanks for that Streets Dept!!
Can you “do a bit” on proper Wash Ave zipper granite paver replacement? Maybe it’s not necessary since I haven’t looked in a while, but as of last year and the year before missing zipper pieces (near Tucker BLVD) were being filled w/ asphalt instead of being replaced w/ the 1999 granite pavers–what a shame. -Brad