‘Bureaucracy going mad’: the 250 ‘magnificent’ 10 metre-high trees being felled for a Melbourne bike path

About 250 mature native and introduced trees on Queens Avenue in Caulfield South are set to be cut down to make way for a kilometre-long shared bike and pedestrian path (inset). Photograph: Benita Kolovos/Victorian government

For 30 years, Tamara de Silva has woken up to the sound of birds chirping in the trees across the road from her home in Melbourne’s south-east.

“Listening to the magpies and the lorikeets in the mornings, watching them playing around – it lifts your spirits,” she said.