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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

Olive branch offered to save 250 trees from being chopped down for new Melbourne bike path

Trees on Queens Avenue in Caulfield South that are set to be cut down to make way for a kilometre-long bike path.
For years, residents along Queens Avenue in Melbourne’s Caulfield East have campaigned against the removal of mature trees in order to build a 1km bike path. Photograph: Benita Kolovos

About 250 trees set to be cut down to make way for a new Melbourne bike path could be spared under a last-minute proposal put forward by the state government after a community campaign.

The 1km path, which would connect the new Glen Huntly railway station to other stations, would require the felling of 250 mature trees, including several that are on the council’s classified tree register, on Queens Avenue in Caulfield East.

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