SEVERAL trees in the CBD will be ripped out in coming weeks to make room for the upgrade to the McCallum and Campbell streets intersection.
Part of the upgrade involves the expansion of the intersection to accommodate a left hand turning lane, a through lane and a right hand turning lane in both directions along Campbell Street, a spokesperson from VicRoads said.
This means that 10 centre median bottle trees and four roadside tuckaroo trees will have to be removed.
Council’s director of infrastructure David Leahy said the trees would be relocated around town.
“One will go outside the visitor’s centre… the rest will be spread around parks and reserves around Swan Hill,” he said.
Mr Leahy said one of the benefits of the bottle trees and tuckaroo trees is that they can be relocated.
He said council didn’t know the trees would have to be removed when they completed the Campbell Street upgrades over 12 months ago, as they had no indication when the intersection upgrade would progress.
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