With the green foliage removed, the trees along the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway now look bare and ugly. — Photos: LIM BENG TATT/The Star
A STRETCH of ‘botak’ (bald) trees has raised public alarm with 10 of them pollarded to the point that only the main branches and trunk remain along Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway.
Looking bare and skeletal along the highway’s slip road leading to George Town just after the Penang Bridge, they left motorists wondering why the healthy-looking trees have to be treated that way.
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