No, it's not a pain in the butt as someone can be hurt or killed in a car wreck! You'd be surprised at even in small subdivisions on flat surfaces and very short blocks with one stop sign how a child can fall out of a car from a side street car hitting her door and falling out of the car can kill a little girl. It took the mom 3 years to get that 2nd stop sign as she placed new wreaths at that corner every week for 5 years.

We appreciate the warning as drivers at a busy section close to the library and Workforce places. We were supposed to have trees cut back due to so many storms to stop them from coming out of the soaked ground by their roots falling on streets and houses. Lightning can hit them, too, making them fall.

Having branches come out into the road IS a traffic hazaard and just as bad and important. Please fix this as whomever is responsible needs to complete the job of cutting back tree limbs or removing them before lightning does, or it hits a house or building causing damage and maybe a fire. Prevention is the cure!

That's okay, when someone gets T-boned, don't say I didn't tell you so.

While coming into town, I zip up Hampton Street, I am amazed at the overgrowth of trees on this road, right at the intersection of Gadsen Street. Are these tree overgrowths all part of the Veterans Memorial, located across the street or is it part of One Stop Unemployment visitors' spectacle? I don't understand. What's not to see here that doesn't need to be cut back? I believe the city is blind and lazy as hell, and the City Police must enjoy the view of the obscured One Stop Unemployment building and Veterans Memorial. Out of sight, out of mind? This is the worst and one of the heaviest traveled roads in downtown Columbia, and I'll keep telling you until I'm blue in the face...cut your trees back before someone gets killed! Is this why we voted a bunch of undocumented, inept democrats into office? Do something that matters for a change!

1-1/2 years later. No changes have taken place. I wonder how many accidents and near misses there have been at this location.

You can report this to the Forestry Division of City of Columbia.

You win... I give up