Adrian wrote:
"Richard J." gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

The practice of putting up a few little non-standard signs warning of
trees whose upper trunks or major branches encroach over the kerb
line on bus routes has always seemed to me to be inadequate and too
casual. If it's a branch, then cut it off. If the trunk itself is a
danger, then either narrow the carriageway or remove the tree. If
the tree-huggers don't like that, they can plant another tree,
further from the kerb. Street trees look nice and generally should
be preserved, but not at the cost of bus passegers' and pedestrians'
lives.

I wonder how many double-decker buses have passed that tree without
hitting it?

Since I suspect it is rather considerable, I think we can discount the
positioning of the tree itself - unless it moved recently.

Trees do move, in the sense that they grow, and sometimes they gradually
lean to one side. During this process the risk of a bus hitting it also
grows, so the fact that lots of buses passed it previously without hitting
it is not a reason to discount the position of the tree as a factor.

--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)