The fall of a plane tree three or four stories high on Wednesday night in the Les Corts neighborhood is fueling the concern of many Barcelonans about trees. Barcelona now has three incidents related to trees in less than a week. Yesterday, right there, in front of the felled base of the trunk, some neighbors frowned. Drought, climate change and especially the death of a young woman this summer in the Raval, after a palm tree broke in half and fell on her, largely explain this unrest.
The municipal technicians, however, send a reassuring message and detail that there are no more landslides than in other years, that the causes of these latest incidents are varied and that the safety measures put in place after the fateful palm tree accident are ready. to finish developing. These days the City Council is cutting down half a thousand date palm trees that could still pose some risk.
The Les Corts plane tree, the one on Loreto Street, according to City Hall sources, was located in an area of road redevelopment works. “We are analyzing the causes of the fall. For now, as a precaution, we have asked those responsible for the work to secure the rest of the trees in the area while these investigations last.”
This Monday some fungi triggered the fall of the large branch of a melia in front of the doors of an educational center in the Vila de Gràcia neighborhood, on Riera de Sant Miquel street. And it was the rain and the weight of the water, the technicians conclude, that caused the branch of a tipuana on Avenir street, in the Sant Gervasi-Galvany neighborhood, to give way last Friday.
