After some first glances, the municipal technicians from Parcs i Jardins de Barcelona believe that the most likely origin of the fall of a tree at least a couple of stories high that occurred early Thursday morning on Aragó Street is in its battered roots. This is the fifth accident involving trees in the city in just ten days. In any case, technicians are still awaiting the results of the analyzes of the ill-fated hackberry to confirm these assertions. On Monday a robinia fell on the children's area of a park in the Clot neighborhood. This summer a palm tree broke and killed a young woman in the Raval.
A few residents on this side of the Eixample say that this specimen, like others of the same species in the surrounding area, had a disturbing appearance, very yellow, with large holes and exaggeratedly inclined towards the asphalt, where it finally fell, until it fell on the front sidewalk. Municipal sources, however, state that this tree passed the review of the risk plan in January 2022 to which all specimens in the city undergo at least every two years, and that it was not due for a new examination until the beginning of the year. coming.
The events took place around five-thirty in the morning, specifically in the section of Aragó between Entença and Vilamarí, on the sidewalk on the sea side. Fortunately, no one was injured in the accident. The area is usually very busy, except at that time of the morning. “It woke me up, because she made a noise, but I turned around and went back to sleep,” said a neighbor from her balcony, right in front of the now orphaned tree tree. And then I said to myself, let's see if something has happened and I looked out, and there was the tree, lying down. The truth is that he didn't look good, like the rest of the street. Just the other day I was telling my husband that if these trees continued to lean they would end up forming a tunnel for cars.” Other surrounding residents agree with these conclusions, but none of them ever filed a complaint.
Municipal sources, as they did after Monday's collapse, emphasize that this year as many trees are falling as the previous one, that so far this year 156 have fallen, and that last year 203 did. “This year so many are falling. trees and branches like last year,” City Hall sources insist. In any case, municipal technicians have been in contact for weeks with experts and officials from other cities in order to exchange information. According to statistics, tomorrow or the day after at the latest another tree will collapse in Barcelona.
