This Tuesday morning, the municipal brigade of Tarragona cut down eight elm trees on Ramon y Cajal Street that were in poor condition and could be a risk to pedestrians and vehicles.
In the different periodic checks they carry out, Parcs i Jardins technicians detected these specimens that presented different pathologies.
“The main ones are that they are rotten on the inside. It can be due to the tree’s own causes, due to injuries from pruning or due to other external causes that have to do with human beings, such as touches from cars or trucks or pollution; and they must be pruned to that there will not be a fall in the near future,” explained the Minister of Espai Públic, Guillermo García.
Starting next week the pruned elms will be replaced by privet. “For two months we will be replanting about 350 trees in urban roads, parks and gardens,” he said. García also explained that following the fall of a palm tree in Barcelona that caused the death of a woman, at the end of summer the 150 palm trees in the city were checked and only three cases had to be intervened.
