The axing of 10 fully grown trees at the Old Airport Road–Suranjan Das Road junction during the weekend has triggered protests and online petitions by citizens and green activists.
The trees were axed to make way for an underpass, a part of the controversial Old Airport Signal-free Corridor Project.
The BBMP had a justification for axing the trees: It had the go-ahead from the expert committee set up on the directions of the Karnataka High Court to fell a total of 25 trees. But dubbing the Palike’s action as indiscriminate and opaque, citizens were upset that they had no clue about the panel’s green signal.
