2018-01-13 Yarnbombing of Euston HS2 trees
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London, UK. 13th January, 2018. Trees in Euston Square Gardens are pictured wrapped with hand-knitted scarves.
Local residents and campaigners opposed to the HS2 high-speed rail link have used the scarves to ‘yarn-bomb’ many of the large London Plane, Red Oak, Common Whitebeam, Common Lime and Wild Service trees in Euston Square Gardens expected to be felled to make way for temporary sites for construction vehicles and a displaced taxi rank as part of preparations for the controversial HS2 project. The handknitted scarves are intended to draw the attention of passersby coming to and from Euston station to messages attached to them warning of the forthcoming ‘arboricide’. The messages read: ‘Arboricide in the Autumn! High Speed 2 will cut down almost all of the trees around Euston station. 53 of the trees in Euston Square Gardens. All hundred trees in St James’s Gardens - the whole 3 acre park gone forever. And all the street trees in Cardington Street, Eversholt Street and Hampstead Road and eight trees in Euston Road.’
Euston Square Gardens is located alongside one of the most polluted roads in London in an area where people experience an exacerbation of respiratory conditions and where EU air quality standards have been regularly infringed.
Local residents and campaigners opposed to the HS2 high-speed rail link have used the scarves to ‘yarn-bomb’ many of the large London Plane, Red Oak, Common Whitebeam, Common Lime and Wild Service trees in Euston Square Gardens expected to be felled to make way for temporary sites for construction vehicles and a displaced taxi rank as part of preparations for the controversial HS2 project. The handknitted scarves are intended to draw the attention of passersby coming to and from Euston station to messages attached to them warning of the forthcoming ‘arboricide’. The messages read: ‘Arboricide in the Autumn! High Speed 2 will cut down almost all of the trees around Euston station. 53 of the trees in Euston Square Gardens. All hundred trees in St James’s Gardens - the whole 3 acre park gone forever. And all the street trees in Cardington Street, Eversholt Street and Hampstead Road and eight trees in Euston Road.’
Euston Square Gardens is located alongside one of the most polluted roads in London in an area where people experience an exacerbation of respiratory conditions and where EU air quality standards have been regularly infringed.
