Protests intensify as tree felling for Old Airport Road signal-free corridor continues

Public anger at the felling of decades-old trees on Old Airport Road intensified with citizens and green activists holding a demonstration at the Suranjan Das Road junction on Sunday morning.

Holding aloft ‘Save Tree’ slogans, they collectively sought an immediate halt to the axing.

Armed with the go-ahead from the Tree Experts Committee, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is on a drive to remove 23 trees at the junction. Ten trees, all fully grown and over 50 years old, were felled last weekend in an operation designed to make way for a subway at the ‘T’ Junction.