Future Safety of Holborn Trees

[TGB]

The view above already suggests the street trees have a a hard life. Bending away from the buildings, toward available light and over the road. Another photo shows it's the same on the other side.

 

Now the trees are getting a good soaking. But their roots are not normally subjected to such intense heat from below.

 

Are these trees now doomed?

[Mortimer Firewood]

I take it this is where the under ground cable fire is.

[sloth]

Just googled this, first I've heard of it. Looks and sounds bad, I don't know how far through the soil the heat would travel. I think a bigger concern could be the toxic smoke/gas leaks penetrating the soil under roads and surfaces with no where to escape. Could well be bad news for a lot of trees in the near future, watch this space...

[TGB]

I take it this is where the under ground cable fire is.

 

 

Yep! That's the puppy.

[redmoosefaction]

I remember back in 2001 there was a car bomb in my high street and the plane trees were in the blast, I knew one of the guys the council and he had to re pollard them... and they are still there now.

 

Planes are as hard as nails.