Tree Blocks Traffic On Reid Street
[Updated] Morning commuters in Hamilton faced an ‘unplanned roadblock’ this morning [Mar.1] after a massive tree fell across the road on Reid Street, in the area outside Music Box.
A car is pictured below driving around the tree at approximately 8am:
Update 9.30am: The tree has been cleared out of the road:
- Photos courtesy of Kenny Byron and Ron Spencer
it didn’t fall over on its own- a truck struck the overhanging branch and kept on going!
The truck was green, looked a bit like a garbage truck, only not as tall. No visible markings. Truck approached Reid Street from Cavendish Road. Driver had no care or concern for anyone – did not stop to even look. Truck made a huge bang when it hit the tree so there is no way the driver could not have known he hit something…idiot.
Now, if only we had CCTV in town, or RFID scanners…
Oh! that is so typically Bermudian. No accountability. Hope they catch the guy and make him pay for the clean-up.
I think it is funny that the news has this prior to W&E getting the call to come out and clean it up!! Or should we all just go home and get our chainsaws ourselves to clear the road? Or is clean up left to the regiment???? Does it depend on the weather as to who cleans this up?
How about this? If I come up Reid St. in my heels and chop up this branch can I take it home for next winters firewood?
I’m sure that it’s the Corporation of Hamilton that would be responsible for removing the tree, not Works & Engineering.
I guess it was all those fireworks going on in the OBA Office that caused the tree to fall.
nothing to do with W & E ……. its Corporation of Hamilton
Out of curiosity, if the tree was indeed damaged/destroyed (not clear if that was a large branch or the trunk) by a truck, does the party responsible (the driver or company in question) have to pay compensation for the destruction of the tree as property? And if so, do they just pay the cost of planting a new tree, or would that include the upkeep of the tree up until the time it is functionally equivalent to the felled tree?
Even further, I believe Greenrock or BEST put forward an estimate of the value of a tree in terms of it’s ecosystem goods and services it provides (carbon sequestration, noise mitigation, air pollution mitigation, shade, etc.) – could these be factored in for determining the compensation?
I remember the CoH talking about a new tree planting initiative some months ago – any news on that? What kind of trees (invasives versus endemics/natives versus fruit bearing trees)? And where (does back-of-town get left out again)?
If the tree was hanging in the roadway the truck driver may not be responsible. The low hanging branch should have been pruned to avoid this type of incident.
Touche. I guess it would depend on a number of factors. Reckless driving, care of the tree, etc. All the same though, I’m surprised that the driver didn’t seem to stop and wait for police or anything, which I would’ve thought would be the correct action regardless.
It is soo typical of some people today. While we may never know, what happened to cause this tree branch to break off and end up on the streets of The City of Hamilton, how did several bloggers come to the conclusion that it is a Works n Engineering problem. I guess its all that Rum n Coke twisting their brains.
LMAO
I’ll stick to my kool-aid
Just to be clear, by ‘several’ you mean ‘one’, right?
If a tree falls on Reid Street and no one is around to hear it fall…
Many of the trees around the City are rotten from the inside. Thank God that no one was injured.
You spelled “politician” wrong….
That would be true except people are getting injured by those rotten ones.
Best comment ever!
Brilliant post.
nicely done.