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

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