Cease PennDOT’s Clearcut - REPLANT WITH THE GRANT

We the people here serve notice you are exceading the bounds of your perission and we here by demand you to cease.

This is one of the most ignorant, and ecologically destructive, decisions made by PA Bureaucrats ever! This practice/policy must be stopped immediately! Plant MORE trees, not kill them, whoever came up with the conclusion they caused roadside deaths needs their results challenged, soo, soo stupid!! Stop now!!

Who is benefitting financially from this clear-cutting? Are they selling the wood?

We need the trees!

Stop cutting the trees! They act as a snow fence between lanes. Whose profiting from this destruction?

Stop the trimming

Trees benefit our environment and lives in so many ways. Every tree that is cut down takes a little piece of beauty and peace with it. Is it really worth it to cut down a beautiful forest?

A ridiculous decision to remove these trees. Who is making money off of this rape of the environment?

For PennDOT’s reasons of safety “that a driver can hit a tree and die” it can be countered that said car can careen across the median and hit a truck in a snowstorm that would cause a chain reaction of fatalities. Truckers are concerned over their safety because of the tree wind buffer removed. As a environmental community there are grave concerns listed below: The concerns are listed on the petition of Pennsylvania taxpayers. The concerns consist are copious including the fact that PENDOT has over reached the Federal 30 foot guidelines into a distance of up to 50 feet. ---This petition was begun by www.iamaplanetkid.org, Founder Diane Christin Zenchenko-Esser and these are the additional sentiments of the practices and education put forth by the children's environmental non profit org. -- Three studies in the last few decades have demonstrated how planting trees along urban streets and highways reduces the rate of car crashes. A 2006 study found that “greening” the highways at 10 sites across Texas reduced car crashes at those sites by an average of 46%. An earlier German study, in 1990, found lining urban streets with trees and other greenery cut the overall crash rate by 30%, the number of accidents with injuries by 60%, and the number of accidents involving street-crossing pedestrians by 80%. A 2003 study in Toronto, Canada found adding trees

This is ridiculous! Stop cutting down trees NOW!

We need your help:)FILL THIS FORM OUT AND SEND...THE LINK IS HERE TO PENNDOT...AND YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE ANYTHING IN THIS POST: https://customercare.penndot.gov/Intranet/PennDOT/Press/eccc.nsf/Start.xsp ALSO, GOVNERORS OFFICE: EMAIL: [email protected] GOVERNORS OFFICE: 717-787-2500 PENNDOT'S ENGINEERS ON THIS PROJECT ARE ON THE PETITION. WRITE AND CALL. THE FIGHT IS JUST IN THE FIRST WAVE AND FORCES NEED TO BUILD...SHARE THIS ACROSS THE STATE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW. THE PETITION NEEDS THOUSANDS OF SIGN

We need your help:)FILL THIS FORM OUT AND SEND...THE LINK IS HERE TO PENNDOT...AND YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE ANYTHING IN THIS POST: https://customercare.penndot.gov/Intranet/PennDOT/Press/eccc.nsf/Start.xsp ALSO, GOVNERORS OFFICE: EMAIL: [email protected] GOVERNORS OFFICE: 717-787-2500 PENNDOT'S ENGINEERS ON THIS PROJECT ARE ON THE PETITION. WRITE AND CALL. THE FIGHT IS JUST IN THE FIRST WAVE AND FORCES NEED TO BUILD...SHARE THIS ACROSS THE STATE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW. THE PETITION NEEDS THOUSANDS OF SIGN

We need your help:)FILL THIS FORM OUT AND SEND...THE LINK IS HERE TO PENNDOT...AND YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE ANYTHING IN THIS POST: https://customercare.penndot.gov/Intranet/PennDOT/Press/eccc.nsf/Start.xsp ALSO, GOVNERORS OFFICE: EMAIL: [email protected] GOVERNORS OFFICE: 717-787-2500 PENNDOT'S ENGINEERS ON THIS PROJECT ARE ON THE PETITION. WRITE AND CALL. THE FIGHT IS JUST IN THE FIRST WAVE AND FORCES NEED TO BUILD...SHARE THIS ACROSS THE STATE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW. THE PETITION NEEDS THOUSANDS OF SIGN

We need your help:)FILL THIS FORM OUT AND SEND...THE LINK IS HERE TO PENNDOT...AND YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE ANYTHING IN THIS POST: https://customercare.penndot.gov/Intranet/PennDOT/Press/eccc.nsf/Start.xsp ALSO, GOVNERORS OFFICE: EMAIL: [email protected] GOVERNORS OFFICE: 717-787-2500 PENNDOT'S ENGINEERS ON THIS PROJECT ARE ON THE PETITION. WRITE AND CALL. THE FIGHT IS JUST IN THE FIRST WAVE AND FORCES NEED TO BUILD...SHARE THIS ACROSS THE STATE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW. THE PETITION NEEDS THOUSANDS OF SIGN

We need your help:)FILL THIS FORM OUT AND SEND...THE LINK IS HERE TO PENNDOT...AND YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE ANYTHING IN THIS POST: https://customercare.penndot.gov/Intranet/PennDOT/Press/eccc.nsf/Start.xsp ALSO, GOVNERORS OFFICE: EMAIL: [email protected] GOVERNORS OFFICE: 717-787-2500 PENNDOT'S ENGINEERS ON THIS PROJECT ARE ON THE PETITION. WRITE AND CALL. THE FIGHT IS JUST IN THE FIRST WAVE AND FORCES NEED TO BUILD...SHARE THIS ACROSS THE STATE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW. THE PETITION NEEDS THOUSANDS OF SIGN

We need your help:)FILL THIS FORM OUT AND SEND...THE LINK IS HERE TO PENNDOT...AND YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE ANYTHING IN THIS POST: https://customercare.penndot.gov/Intranet/PennDOT/Press/eccc.nsf/Start.xsp ALSO, GOVNERORS OFFICE: EMAIL: [email protected] GOVERNORS OFFICE: 717-787-2500 PENNDOT'S ENGINEERS ON THIS PROJECT ARE ON THE PETITION. WRITE AND CALL. THE FIGHT IS JUST IN THE FIRST WAVE AND FORCES NEED TO BUILD...SHARE THIS ACROSS THE STATE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW. THE PETITION NEEDS THOUSANDS OF SIGNATURES.

We need your help:)FILL THIS FORM OUT AND SEND...THE LINK IS HERE TO PENNDOT...AND YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE ANYTHING IN THIS POST: https://customercare.penndot.gov/Intranet/PennDOT/Press/eccc.nsf/Start.xsp ALSO, GOVNERORS OFFICE: EMAIL: [email protected] GOVERNORS OFFICE: 717-787-2500 PENNDOT'S ENGINEERS ON THIS PROJECT ARE ON THE PETITION. WRITE AND CALL. THE FIGHT IS JUST IN THE FIRST WAVE AND FORCES NEED TO BUILD...SHARE THIS ACROSS THE STATE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW. THE PETITION NEEDS THOUSANDS OF SIGNATURES.

I understand the need for safety along the highways but we need trees to produce oxygen, to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and to help filter air pollution. There has to be a compromise between safety and keeping some trees.

My understanding is that they used all PA road accident fatalities involving hitting a solid structure - I think this was pretty taking pretty extreme measures with no public comment or even publicity.

The trees help block the blowing snow so you can at least see where you are going, especially in the snowbelt. Its a natural snow fence. Make them replant evergreens.