tellis pointed out that that there was absolutely no reason to support the need of hacking down perfectly healthy trees deputy superintendent of gardens pravin gosavi said according to the notice the trees were being cut to widen the stretch in santacruz as we read the notices pasted on individual trees we were shocked to learn that the authorities are planning to cut them down to widen the road said rohan tellis a resident of the area now losing so many more trees in our area again is definitely not acceptable residents claimed that the notices did not even mention the contact details where people could lodge a complaint if they were against the destruction of the trees marked out we are resisting it said a resident the notices were put up overnight mumbai residents from santacruzs second hasnabad lane were shocked to see that the bmc has put up notices on perfectly healthy trees saying they would be cut down to widen the road they have decided to write a letter to the tree authority together expressing their strong objection to the move the residents are now collecting signatures of all the representatives of various buildings of the area and they plan to send a letter to the tree authority shortly according to the notice the number of trees that the civic tree department plans to cut is 32 my wife and i were returning home from the church in the morning when we spotted the notices on the trees we are going to let the authorities know that they cannot come to our area and cut the trees down though stunned by the decision of mindless destruction of so many trees on the stretch the residents are determined to save them at any cost the area has already lost a few trees when the same stretch was concretized in case anyone has any objection to the decision they can write to use within seven days said gosavi