Please do not show this to anyone at Portland City Hall
You just know they're going to want them. You just know.
They'll probably show up somewhere along the line of the Milwaukie Mystery Train.
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Comments (13)
They would provide necessary shelter for the frightful deer baby.
Posted by Ex-bartender | March 19, 2012 7:00 AM
Will they have rights like real trees?
Posted by INFO | March 19, 2012 7:22 AM
I like 'em ... as a design concept used in correct proportion with its environment.
Then again, I like sculptural things and I like trees.
As long as people remember these aren't REAL trees....with leaves. Obviously, nobody associated with Milwaukie MAX has the common sense to remember that.
Posted by talea | March 19, 2012 7:37 AM
Ugly and undoubtedly hideously expensive...so of course "they" will need them. Better than real trees too! So Portlandia!
Posted by Portland Native | March 19, 2012 7:39 AM
How much greenhouse gasses will be emitted as they create faux "greenhouse gas scrubbers" (ie, real trees)?
In the meantime, at NE 102 & Halsey, there is a public art installation where tall red poles represent trees. I've never quite understood why they didn't put real trees there...they would have fit nicely with the theme of the art piece.
Posted by Michelle | March 19, 2012 8:09 AM
Maybe they can build them with revenue from the leaf fee program.
Posted by Panchopdx | March 19, 2012 8:19 AM
Tre Arrow can live in one. Him and his bucket.
Posted by INFO | March 19, 2012 8:43 AM
Why do I get the feeling that people who say they like trees aren't happy until they cut them down and put up sculptures to remember them by? In public plazas of course, in vibrant , walkable, communities.
Posted by Nolo | March 19, 2012 10:03 AM
So that's what is going to replace all those trees along McLoughlin when the TriMet bulldozers plow through them to build the next light rail line. And destroy the "protected" wetland that Union Pacific had to restore under the terms of a big federal lawsuit...that'll all be buried and filled in.
Posted by Erik H. | March 19, 2012 12:10 PM
More subsidized condo bunkers of course!
Posted by Portland Native | March 19, 2012 12:24 PM
Subsidized condo bunkers... for birds!
And like the humans, they won't move there either.
Posted by Old Zeb | March 19, 2012 7:02 PM
Visit Singapore. One of the richest countries in the world. Built on an island with basically no natural resources.
They not only build fantastic stuff like these trees, but they pay for them...with current money.
Posted by John D | March 19, 2012 7:24 PM
Pave paradise, put up a parking lot...with concrete and steel trees.
Posted by TheOtherDave | March 19, 2012 9:54 PM