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Councils Are Felling Trees To Make Way For Postie EVs The Irony ( Climate Change) Is Killing Me

Australia Post Climate Change Age Melbourne

Melbourne local councils are chopping down trees and removing vegetation on footpaths to make way for Australia Post’s new emissions-reducing electric vehicles and the irony is simply too much for me at this time of year. Merri-bek, Darebin and Stonnington councils have felled trees and removed branches along footpaths so posties can roll down in their brand-new electric trikes, which Australia Post announced in 2021 would replace the old motorbikes. 3000 are being used around the country, 500 of those in Vic so far. The bikes have been used by Australia Post

as reported by The Age. The AgeStudies have shown suburbs with fewer or smaller tree canopies

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