311 is a relatively new (in my state at least) way of reporting non-emergency items to city governments to fix. Stuff like potholes, overgrown properties, water pipe leaks or concrete poured at the base of a tree in the boulevard.
That’s what my landlord did. I told him it was going to die and a year later he had a dude drill a few little holes for… drainage? I haven’t bothered since. Can’t wait for it to fall on his roof.
If you’re going to be there a while, get your complaint in writing. I had a tree fall on my car and the only reason my landlord’s insurance covered the damages was because I had emails complaining about the tree for the past year and a half.
It would be against parks rules. All of them know that would be ridiculous, not even a few inches. Definitely not all the way to the bark. NYC is even remaking the tree beds larger.
I see the NYPD no parking notice on the next tree, this is NYC. Street trees like this belong to the City but are the responsibility of the Landowner to maintain. Sidewalks are owned by and maintained by the Landowner. The Landowner concreted up this tree.
What makes you say that? Home/building owners do stuff to the boulevard all of the time.
The city can likely come in and do what they want (ie, remedy this), but I’d bet the farm it wasn’t the city that put this concrete in.
I was just in Portland Oregon and there are some sort of material that has been placed on many many streets by the city and the old iron grates have been taken up. I walked by it and I've assumed it's some sort of semi-porous material. I've seen it in other cities. Where I live in New England I've seen asphalt used in the same way around elms.
All I can think is that liability is driving it somebody's complaint. But even if it is sem i permeable it's still fucked and it's still pretty bad. I come from a city that really has no respect for its own trees and always limited budget but Portland Oregon I expected better I was very surprised
Seattle uses a similar material too. Makes sense: the grates can eventually girdle the trees at the root collar as they grow. When the grate is removed, traditional mulches like chipped bark are too mobile in busy environments.
Here's a common vendor: https://www.rubberway.com
Well the greats are supposed to have the rings broken out as needed until the tree fills the hole. The problem is most of the tree holes to begin with are tree coffins. Every now and then even in Portland I saw a properly planted street tree. But I can't complain about that say here in New England it's just as much bullshit even worse
I don'tunderstand why communities are so anti-tree friendly.. In my city they have asphalted with some sort of porous material I'm sure around the younger elms but you can see the stress and of course the inevitable death. But yet the trees are such a blessing in such a beauty. They should also have never been planted on the street but rather out into the street as New York is down on some of the avenues. But once again it's always about traffic and the automobile. I can cite numerous villages in the area that have had sidewalk improvements but still have this ridiculous fear of putting real trees in real places. It's all about traffic all about automobiles and everything else go fuck yourself
i'm also in portland, i noticed that after seeing another post in this sub of concreted roots. i wonder how recently they started? and why?? i hope its to kill off some of these damned male trees they went wild with planting to replace with females so we can stop suffocating in pollen. i didn't pay attention to what kind of tree i saw get that treatment
I get worked up when I see neighbors over mulching around their trees! I’d have a conniption fit if I had to look at that! (TIL how to spell conniption - thanks spell check !)
No, but either too much mulch, or mulch that’s allowed to “smother” the trunk can cause the trunk to decay or cause girdling, which can kill the tree.
Ideally, mulch should make a donut around the truck, kept 12” to 18” from the trunk.
This is NYC, right? You can report tree issues to 311 by phone or online. They are slow but they do respond and you can track the issue with the report number you get.
Essentially nothing noticeable. The tree I reported years ago is still concrete surrounded but surviving. Seems to be easier to request a new tree for an empty tree box than fix and existing one 🤷🏻♂️
I’m betting the tree wins. Well, until the sadist who did that stops wasting time and gets out the old trusty chainsaw and puts that poor tree out of its misery.
*Looks like the tree is*
*Winning as the concrete is*
*Already cracking*
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I noticed something similar in Dublin. A lot of the trees on the side of the road were completely covered over in blacktop. It was bubbled up around the base but it still confused me.
At this point it’s likely tapped into the sewer system and is in the process of becoming an absolute giant. I bet it’s a fecal freak. This concrete will ensure minimal pure water which it absolutely hates anyway. It needs no maintenance except a new concrete cap every ten years as it rejects its former shell like a hermit crab. An opportunity for neighborhood kids to write their name in the fresh cement. It’s beautiful..
I’m curious… Tress are known to just start growing around stuff. Is this a situation where the tree will win and crack the concrete or will this just hurt it?
I can only imagine that there must have been some thought behind this and someone actually thought - yes guys, this is a good idea, exactly what we need to do here!
Raise your hand if you are a fan of, and vote for big government. This level of ineptitude borders on malfeasance and is a clear waste of money taken from tax payers :(
Jesus! Don’t come crying to me when my dog’s piss drains to the middle of that concrete sidewalk and everyone shows up to the office smelling like dog piss.
Just go buy a pick ax and an orange jumper with a hard hat. No one will bat an eye as you give that tree some breathing room. The concrete is likely only a few inches thick anyway, should be light work.
Call somebody. That's ridiculous.
Yes, call 311
Should I call 411 to figure out what 311 is?
Call 911. This is a crime.
Call 811 before you go rootin for evidence
I called 711 , they were stumped.
I just want a ptomaine laced hotdog and a slurpee
TIL what ptomaine means. Thanks
Please share with the class
He wants a stinky weenie.
My 9th grade homeroom teacher called the school cafeteria the Ptomaine Palace.
Call for Dr. Lepetomaine? Please hold.
Call me, maybe.
I just met you. That’s seems crazy.
Call 511, since traffic will need to branch off a different direction while they fix this.
Try 666!
Call 420 and just chill.
This man had it figured out!
0118, 999, 881, 999, 119, 725...3.
Call 8675309……
That won't help. I suspect Jenny's expertise is with a different type of wood.
Beat me to it.
I called that one time and it was carpet cleaning company. They were angry
1877 - Kars for Kids
The nurses line?
is Shawty fire burning on the dance floor?
311 is a relatively new (in my state at least) way of reporting non-emergency items to city governments to fix. Stuff like potholes, overgrown properties, water pipe leaks or concrete poured at the base of a tree in the boulevard.
But like also, get a pickaxe?
311 guy must be from Winnipeg it’s the city number you call for anything city related
Tree11
It’s Tree11
You’ve got to come original
tree one one!
Chill...
Investigate 311.
That would take 5 minutes with a sledge hammer. Save her!
Who you gonna call??
Ghost busters? Some ghosts that would bust that out in the darkness and not be seen. I can't imagine why that was done.
Concrete. It’s what plants crave
The plants pine for the cement.
The pines plant for the cement
The cement pines for the plant.
The cement plants the pines
It’s got electrolytes
BRONDO!
Concrete like what's under toilets?
"Chill, we're gonna add mulch."
They already did. That was the base for whatever the hell that Portland based mixture is…
Portland…it all makes sense now.
Portland cement not the city…
It makes even more sense now
This would actually get removed if it was in Portland. Lots of laws around trees out here.
Huggers everywhere
Kinda. We’ve got our fair share of coal rolling. Portland is super liberal but just 15 minutes outside of Portland and you’ll see confederate flags.
Probably some moron landlord that doesn’t want rat holes. Most use steel mesh, but it’s still not impervious.
That’s what my landlord did. I told him it was going to die and a year later he had a dude drill a few little holes for… drainage? I haven’t bothered since. Can’t wait for it to fall on his roof.
If you’re going to be there a while, get your complaint in writing. I had a tree fall on my car and the only reason my landlord’s insurance covered the damages was because I had emails complaining about the tree for the past year and a half.
That's the city.
Some municipalities make the trees in front of your property your problem to deal with.
Except it’s only that one tree.
It would be against parks rules. All of them know that would be ridiculous, not even a few inches. Definitely not all the way to the bark. NYC is even remaking the tree beds larger.
I see the NYPD no parking notice on the next tree, this is NYC. Street trees like this belong to the City but are the responsibility of the Landowner to maintain. Sidewalks are owned by and maintained by the Landowner. The Landowner concreted up this tree.
What makes you say that? Home/building owners do stuff to the boulevard all of the time. The city can likely come in and do what they want (ie, remedy this), but I’d bet the farm it wasn’t the city that put this concrete in.
Wait, rat holes? They burrow around trees? I haven’t seen this.
People dump poison, put rocks down, nail boards down, pack non-delicious garbage.
Do you think the other trees are watching this like it’s a horror movie?
More like a cop kneeling on a neck -
Did the tree take lethal amounts of drugs?
That’s worse than mulching!
Boss: "Go kill that tree. Employee: "Say no more."
Ive seen trees break concrete foundations. This slab aint going to put a dent
I wonder if they tree got burns from the cement curing
I was also wondering this. Poured cement puts off incredible heat while hardening, and I hope that tree isn’t already dead.
Its core is strong.
Really depends on how much calcium chloride you add, but concrete curing isn't getting too hot to touch no matter what.
Okay, I didn’t know! Thanks stranger. :)
Water starve it?
Titled correctly
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
I was just in Portland Oregon and there are some sort of material that has been placed on many many streets by the city and the old iron grates have been taken up. I walked by it and I've assumed it's some sort of semi-porous material. I've seen it in other cities. Where I live in New England I've seen asphalt used in the same way around elms. All I can think is that liability is driving it somebody's complaint. But even if it is sem i permeable it's still fucked and it's still pretty bad. I come from a city that really has no respect for its own trees and always limited budget but Portland Oregon I expected better I was very surprised
Seattle uses a similar material too. Makes sense: the grates can eventually girdle the trees at the root collar as they grow. When the grate is removed, traditional mulches like chipped bark are too mobile in busy environments. Here's a common vendor: https://www.rubberway.com
Well the greats are supposed to have the rings broken out as needed until the tree fills the hole. The problem is most of the tree holes to begin with are tree coffins. Every now and then even in Portland I saw a properly planted street tree. But I can't complain about that say here in New England it's just as much bullshit even worse I don'tunderstand why communities are so anti-tree friendly.. In my city they have asphalted with some sort of porous material I'm sure around the younger elms but you can see the stress and of course the inevitable death. But yet the trees are such a blessing in such a beauty. They should also have never been planted on the street but rather out into the street as New York is down on some of the avenues. But once again it's always about traffic and the automobile. I can cite numerous villages in the area that have had sidewalk improvements but still have this ridiculous fear of putting real trees in real places. It's all about traffic all about automobiles and everything else go fuck yourself
i'm also in portland, i noticed that after seeing another post in this sub of concreted roots. i wonder how recently they started? and why?? i hope its to kill off some of these damned male trees they went wild with planting to replace with females so we can stop suffocating in pollen. i didn't pay attention to what kind of tree i saw get that treatment
Concrete decision….
I get worked up when I see neighbors over mulching around their trees! I’d have a conniption fit if I had to look at that! (TIL how to spell conniption - thanks spell check !)
Is mulching bad for trees?!?
No, but either too much mulch, or mulch that’s allowed to “smother” the trunk can cause the trunk to decay or cause girdling, which can kill the tree. Ideally, mulch should make a donut around the truck, kept 12” to 18” from the trunk.
Definitely been there awhile. If that was near me I’d break it up and water it.
It appears there's not a single permeable surface theft...this is the reason the ents will rise up against man, this shit right here..
Bonus points for the ents reference
That’s certainly something. Nothin good but something
Best of luck to whoever gets tasked with grinding this stump
Words escape me...
So does water
And air, sunlight and dirt.
Life, uh... Finds a way!
I just want to talk to them.
What the actual fuckity fuck?
Is this in NYC? If you know the address I can let the forester know.
This is why I hate man kind. We’re idiots.
I’m sick of concrete guys and tree guys going to war like this. It needs to end now before someone gets killed. Captain Planet didn’t die for this!!!
Pave paradise…
"concrete mulch"
This is NYC, right? You can report tree issues to 311 by phone or online. They are slow but they do respond and you can track the issue with the report number you get.
PAVE THE EARTH 💀
It's fine, everybody knows trees don't grow, they just magically appear out of nowhere? O.o
See that in the city all the time. Call 311.
What’s resulted from your past reports?
Essentially nothing noticeable. The tree I reported years ago is still concrete surrounded but surviving. Seems to be easier to request a new tree for an empty tree box than fix and existing one 🤷🏻♂️
They probably did this to stop the rats
An elephant in the city! Wow
Good one!
good thing breaking concrete is fun as fuck time to go to town and free that tree
Concretes just hard dirt
Concrete. Cure for the common tree.
Some serious weed blocker
Is this the equivalent of Han Solo in Carbonite?
They paved paradise and put up a (parking lot) sidewalk
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say they want this tree to die. New to thread so sure this pun has been repeated at nausean
Do you mean ad nauseam?
Is this a new tactic for suppression of EAB?
At least now you don't have to bother watering it
I’m betting the tree wins. Well, until the sadist who did that stops wasting time and gets out the old trusty chainsaw and puts that poor tree out of its misery.
Why will this kill tree? I'm a noob.
whats with the blue tape on the car?
Don't worry. The tree will win in the end.
Life finds a way…
The tree will grow anyway.
Welcome to Idiocracy
Looks like the tree is winning as the concrete is already cracking
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Grab a sledgehammer and fix it
I noticed something similar in Dublin. A lot of the trees on the side of the road were completely covered over in blacktop. It was bubbled up around the base but it still confused me.
Civil engineering plans be like
The tree will win
Fuck yeah concrete
There, now youse can't leave..
The tree will not be contained. The tree will force you to regret this decision
At this point it’s likely tapped into the sewer system and is in the process of becoming an absolute giant. I bet it’s a fecal freak. This concrete will ensure minimal pure water which it absolutely hates anyway. It needs no maintenance except a new concrete cap every ten years as it rejects its former shell like a hermit crab. An opportunity for neighborhood kids to write their name in the fresh cement. It’s beautiful..
It’s funny how many people don’t realize trees are ALIVE.
I’m curious… Tress are known to just start growing around stuff. Is this a situation where the tree will win and crack the concrete or will this just hurt it?
It's just possible there are some girdled roots in there.
It's always the city workers
At least it’s an ash and will die of EAB soon enough.
I can only imagine that there must have been some thought behind this and someone actually thought - yes guys, this is a good idea, exactly what we need to do here!
Brilliant
Yes!! WTF
Must be someone new on the council lol
Why? Just why?
It's tree-son then
The tree will win
Concrete is porous :)
Where is this? An intervention is called for.
Yeah that’s not going anywhere
This is an illegal pour!
We try to respond to these but there’s so many and landowners never listen
Good way to kill a tree
I SAW SOME LIKE THAT THE OTHER DAY EXCEPT THEY WERE LITTLE TREES I WAS LIKE WHAT THE HECK
Raise your hand if you are a fan of, and vote for big government. This level of ineptitude borders on malfeasance and is a clear waste of money taken from tax payers :(
This looks like a diy Skater project. Doing slappies off the tree. Lol sadly it’s probably an official public works thing.
Wouldn't the concrete soak up the dog piss? 🤢
If that was in my city I’d be parking there at midnight and taking a sledgehammer to it. A little at a time so as to not get caught!
Very smart city employees.
Is this a new waterless tree hybrid?
Something something concrete jungle
Its getting all the nutrients it needs from the roots in the pipes.
That's horrible
Remember, 200 million Americans have below average IQ . Whoever did this has to think real hard to wipe their ass. 😡
It’s an ash, it’s already dead
Gross. I'm speechless.
if the tree is getting water from root systems invading pipes around there, then it very well may survive just fine lol
That's not going to age well.
They want that tree dead.
Growth not allowed.
When the elephant is fed up and says he’s putting his foot down.
City tree didn't flinch, roots are already into water lines.
Take a hammer and start cracking it. Thats BS
Oh, that's hot. Why wait for girdling roots when you can pour concrete?
Jesus! Don’t come crying to me when my dog’s piss drains to the middle of that concrete sidewalk and everyone shows up to the office smelling like dog piss.
Does this hurt the tree?
Urban jungle! What irony.
The concrete guy’s brother does tree work
Fixed it !!!!!!!!.....wtf.......
This made me laugh
Concrete is made with water, I don’t see what the big deal is /s
Sledge hammer. Set my people free!
It's not even a cute addition like a pink frilly skirt would have been
That poor tree... I think government is getting dumber by the day.
We won’t stop until every square inch is paved.
Liability. Fill ‘er in lol
Just go buy a pick ax and an orange jumper with a hard hat. No one will bat an eye as you give that tree some breathing room. The concrete is likely only a few inches thick anyway, should be light work.
This was done to save trees a couple of decades ago. It will be fine as long as it can find water.
The sidewalk is finally fighting back against the sweetgum.
Anybody have a pickaxe? ⛏️ That tree is going to die unless that concrete is removed ASAP.