As someone with a street tree that got absolutely crushed by a neighbors car trees should come with concrete bollards

The streets department giveth, the streets department taketh away

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I had a construction crew run my tree over years ago, so I replaced it with an eastern red bud.

Here is the list of recommended trees to bring when you go shopping: https://www.phila.gov/media/20171115163232/PPR_Approved_Street_Tree_List.pdf

Your link was broken for me- this one should work

I wonder if you're entitled to compensation? Someone I know got bonkers money when a neighbor cut down a tree in their yard

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The Streets Dept cracked the living shit out of my neighbor's concrete last year by parking a huge truck right on it during a street repair because we have a small street and the city is STILL fighting them on fixing it.

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They don't wall it the SWEEP program for nothing!

Streets department is a capricious god with ineffable whims.

It takes the inscribing of many symbols upon the asphalt, and sacrifices at night to call down their blessings or their curse

This feels like passive activism.

This sucks

Some asshole who lives next to me parks his box truck in front of my house/on my tree. He has broken almost half of the branches off and put a huge gash in the trunk. So fucking infuriating. I’ve been caring for my tree for four years now.

That sucks. Are you able to install a bollard? I’m not that slick. I’d be out there letting the air out of the tires until he understood that doing that = flat tires.

Redbuds are one of my favorite trees. It must look absolutely gorgeous right now!

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I had a tree that routinely got screwed up by morons with trucks.

I had an asswipe neighbor who'd always park his fucking truck and wreck branches on my tree. Maybe I should do something like the following: my parents had a tree where people would always reach up and break off branches so I got some gloppy stuff called "Tanglefoot" (to keep bugs off fruit trees) and coated the lower branches with it. So when the smacked-asses grabbed a branch they'd get this sticky-as-hell-non-water-soluable shit on their hands. The best part is that you could say "It must be sap from the tree." Yep, it stopped the morons breaking branches!