Scientist urges BusConnects Cork plan to improve on 'meagre tree planting scheme'

Dr Eoin Lettice also criticised the proposals for a new bridge over Ballybrack Woods

Yellow ribbons on the trees on the Boreenmanna road, one the new BusConnects Cork corridors. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A leading plant scientist has criticised the BusConnects Cork proposals to fell 1,400 trees and described its replanting programme as “meagre” and “superficial”.

Dr Eoin Lettice, of University College Cork’s School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the National Transport Authority’s (NTA) replanting scheme is so superficial it might even be considered an afterthought.