April 10, 2023
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Early Holy Monday morning teams of Athens Municipality started to remove the palm trees from Panepistimiou Avenue in the city center, planted in large planters three years ago.
A total of 22 palm trees are to be removed in the next three days and relocated in a special area of Goudi district of Athens. The troubled palm trees will remain there over an unknown period of time and then be distributed and planted in various neighborhoods of the Greek capital.
worth noting that the cost of the 22 palm trees was 2 million euros and in the context of the ambitious plan of the Athens Mayor, Costas Bakoyiannis: The Great Athens Walk that turned up into a big failure as the mayor himself has declared.
The Mayor’s next challenging plan is to replace the palm trees in Panepistimiou Avenue with 82 plane trees! Yes, these trees that grow up to be huge, with roots known to bring pavements into “explosion”, not to mention the volumes of water they need – especially when one recalls that the Mayor was desperately seeking sponsors for watering some other plants in the same avenue and that the watering was not integrated in the original plan.
Until Mayor Bakoyiannis is ready with his “Athens Playmobil City”, residents and drivers through one of the busiest avenues in the city will curse every day they have to pass through endless traffic jam.