Lonehill streets get winter makeover as City Parks prunes trees
Residents can expect brighter pavements, warmer gardens, and clearer roadsides in the coming weeks as pruning teams move from street to street, with Ward 93 councillor Vino Reddy asking communities to remain patient while leftover branches are cleared.
As winter settles over the City of Gold and the morning chill starts biting a little harder, residents in parts of Lonehill and Pineslopes can expect something many streets have been missing: sunlight filtering through neatly pruned trees.
City Parks contractors have begun trimming overgrown trees across the area on May 20, a move Ward 93 councillor Vino Reddy said could not have come at a better time.
Standing along one of the streets where teams were hard at work cutting branches and clearing pavements, Reddy said the seasonal clean-up would stretch beyond just one road.
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“From this street, they will be moving to Forest Drive and other areas in Pineslopes and Lonehill, all the way to Sloane every day.”
Large branches lined the roadside on Straight Avenue in Pineslopes as workers fed limbs into cutting equipment, opening up canopies that had slowly swallowed patches of sunlight over time.
While summer’s thick greenery may have looked beautiful, winter changes the mood entirely. Streets become colder, homes stay shaded for longer, and damp corners linger without direct sunlight.
Now, with pruning underway, residents can look forward to brighter sidewalks, clearer roads, and warmer gardens just in time for the colder season.
In many suburban neighbourhoods, trimmed trees also improve visibility for motorists and pedestrians while helping prevent heavy branches from snapping during windy weather.
Reddy described the timing as ideal. “It’s really good that they are doing this because we need to have sun, and it’s the perfect time to prune trees at the beginning of winter.”
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The clean-up operation, however, has left behind piles of branches and trench remnants in some sections, something residents have already started raising concerns about.
But Reddy urged the community to remain patient, assuring them that the leftover debris will not remain there permanently. According to the councillor, collection teams are expected to return within the next three weeks to remove the remaining material.
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