Beating graffiti with trees

Network Rail tree planting (NR)

Network Rail is more usually engaged in cutting back the greenery around the trackside. However, the British infrastructure management agency has turned to vegetation in a novel way to tackle the plague of graffiti. Network Rail has stopped pulling out the growth at the trackside and taken to planting trees in a vandalism hotspot in Bermondsey, in the south of London.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is UK correspondent for RailTech.com and Railfreight.com

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