Strip-trees.

This is something that NParks (or perhaps LTA) is prone to doing for reasons I would rather leave for them to provide. I can see very little reason why roadside trees are being striped of their ferns, orchids and other epiphytic plants.

Either NParks/LTA have not been doing their job in properly briefing their roadside tree maintenance contractors (to not remove such plants) or more likely, these organisations felt that it looked 'untidy' and so had them removed.

This is the before picture (taken back in 2003)


And this is the after picture (taken this year: 2012) WHY?


Again, what we are seeing is either rank incompetence or having the wrong people in the wrong jobs. Neat freaks should be put to work at the NEA to ensure our food courts and public toilets are kept clean and 'neat'.