Some months ago the city cut down some trees in a street to make a useless turn around loop for our tram system. Years of protest were denied by then. The people living in the streets did not want this to happen. So eventually a big protest erupted and it turned violent because the police just knocked people down. One of our elected reps to the city was arrested and confined for over ten hours without being able to communicate to anyone what happened.

The trees are down now. One of the functions of trees in a city is to cool down the place. During the current heat wave, residents of the street measured a temperature increase between 7 to 13 degrees celsius compared to previous heat waves. They are now cooking in their appartments. The loop has not been build yet.