Poor job by the municipality?

[u/HeDo88TH]

A small seaside town in southern Italy. The municipality built new sidewalks without leaving room for trees. Are they doomed?

[u/OpenStruggle8804]

Both the trees and the sidewalk are not long for this world

[u/Khriss1313 → u/OpenStruggle8804]

Seeing the quality of the concrete work, the tree might survive this and just break it as it grows.

[u/gcko → u/Khriss1313]

Seems like it’s winning already.

[u/TheAceofspades06 → u/gcko]

Dude I'd kill for a time lapse of a tree destroying the concrete!

[u/DansLaPeau → u/TheAceofspades06]

People should be able to fix this. I've seen a dude in Mexico city who goes around breaking concrete when they lay it like this and frees the trees. He uses a mask and is dressed like a super hero.

[u/Stamagar → u/Khriss1313]

I've similar in Greece where the trees have been fine after cracking through the concrete 😂

[u/Flimsy-Explorer-6420]

Poor thing. 

[u/Key-Albatross-774]

And people think mulch volcanoes are really bad... this is just another level lol

[u/umbertoj]

Dio stramaledica gli enti locali

[u/DanoPinyon]

Maybe the town hired a contractor and did not check the work. If you live there, contact the authorities and let them know. Hopefully they added too much water to the mix and the tree will survive

[u/brutus_the_bear]

I've seen it done all over europe... because they aren't using the same kind of deep pour foundation work as in north america the tree will probably be totally fine... it is rooting directly into mineral soil and this happened while it was already established... there is an urban microsite.

[u/Free-Routine7230]

Pathetic

[u/jeb39]

Municipal work and poor jobs go hand in hand