They paved paradise

My town, Victoria, is building a new bridge that besides being over budget and more than two years behind schedule seems hellbent on killing every tree that once graced the entrance-way to the span. It started gradually as one by one the small groves were unceremoniously stripped of their branches and hacked down. The new bridge is billed as an improvement to downtown but any improvement must involve increasing green space and foliage and not taking it away. As our city embraces the "green philosophy" the hypocrisy is stark. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot and and all the while they call it improvement. I call it a darned shame.