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The Socialist Municipal Group is confirming the practice of the Government team to abandon large trees, which end up getting sick and, later, dying, while promoting the policy of placing flowers and pots around the Town Hall, in the Glorieta.
Therefore, Councilman Antonio Benito believes that "this bet to use and throw away while Murcia and Murcia lose this heritage that has survived generations" cannot be a coincidence.
"Two years ago, the well-known ficus of the Plaza de Santo Domingo could not stand it anymore and broke down as a result of the thermal stress it suffered, a few months ago, we were alerting to the recurrent closures of the Floridablanca garden for fear that the wind would cause branches to fall about citizens, two weeks ago the Socialist Municipal Group denounced the decadent state of the centennial cypress of the Glorieta and only a week ago the neighbors woke up in the middle of the morning with the noise of the chainsaws cutting down the mythical jacaranda of the Plaza de Santa Catalina because her roots, it seems, were sick, "says Benito, who states that" the government team must leave the selfies with the pots and really take care of the woodland we have left. "
He also explains that the Department responsible for parks and gardens promised to invest € 6 million in 2018, but spent a sixth and that half, went to the riverwalk, so that for neighborhoods and districts this year there are only 500,000 left €.
"We must not allow the government team to follow this course. We have requested reports on the maintenance of the trees in the municipality and the convening of the Tree Table. We will continue to denounce the state of our trees and work because Murcia has the parks and gardens it deserves".
In addition, he adds that "to say that the fault is the heat or the scarcity of rains sounds like a simple excuse. These trees have been born and grown here, living with heat and dryness for decades. What we see today is the result of some wrong policies that we inherit from the past and have not been corrected. "
The socialist councilor says that "we have a fundamental problem, a concept of a city. In many gardens, land, water and green have been replaced by stone. We are the orchard of Europe, cultivation and maintenance of trees we know a lot But we must have a sensible and sustainable model, properly direct our technicians and allocate the necessary means. "
Likewise, he points out that "it is healthy envy to see how other cities enjoy walks and gardens full of leafy trees, joyful fountains, perennial shadows that refresh and welcome citizens."
On the contrary, he adds, "having a garden as beautiful and historic as that of Floridablanca, you cannot enjoy in all its splendor because of the threat of falling branches. If you tell us that the problem is heat, what do we do? , wait for Christmas? "
For all this, "we ask that our Consistory take care of its historic trees, cool our squares and parks, oxygenate and decontaminate our city. We must change course. We must have a model. A friendly city, where walking is not an ordeal the long summer months, where we recover the freshness of the green, "concludes Benito.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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