City pauses Pike Street logging project: Cherry Trees 1, Chainsaws 0

The City of Seattle has hit the pause button on the removal of the linear grove of Pike Street cherry trees.

“We are so grateful to Mayor Bruce Harrell for looking carefully at what can be done,” said Save The Market Entrance president Ruth Danner when reached by phone by KIRO Newsradio as the news broke. “And we appreciate Councilmember Lewis for getting involved.” In a strange, only-in-Seattle twist, Harrell and Councilmember Dan Strauss announced a project and proposed legislation to preserve and increase the tree canopy in Seattle on Tuesday. If the cherry trees hadn’t been spared, that would’ve made a very odd split-screen moment – on one side, city leaders expounding on the value of preserving and increasing the number of trees in Seattle, on the other, chainsaws chewing up cherry trees on Pike Street.

KIRO Newsradio’s earlier story on Monday reported that Pike Street between First and Second Avenue is being redeveloped to create additional bike lanes and wider sidewalks. There’s some confusion over this aspect of the story, especially what the new design of that Pike Street block includes.

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Planned removal of cherry trees near Pike Place Market entrance put on pauseNearly two dozen trees were slated to be cut down starting this week to make room for wider sidewalks and bike lanes in the area. Lol. Seattle keeping it green trying to cut down trees for bikes made in China and shipped across the world using fossil fuels Sad! just after you reported that not having trees increased the downtown parks temperature and only rich white people should have shaded land.
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