Recently, hundreds of trees were also cut along roads in some parts of the Czech Republic. The action was justified by that lives are usually lost when a car crashes into a tree.
The environment and transport ministers, Martin Bursik and Ales Rebicek, respectively, have sent a letter to regional governors and heads of the regional offices demanding that they stop tree cutting along roads.
 „The Czech Rail company has tacitly started to fell trees along all rail level crossings,” CSOP deputy director Per Styblo told HN.
 „They even order private owners to fell trees in their gardens, threatening them with fines,” Styblo said.
Bohemian Plzen Region.
The CSOP says that this particularly concerns 400 level crossings in the west A CSOP
CD justifies the action by the need to „improve visibility” in the vicinity of the crossings, and cites a rail law.
Environmentalists, however, say that the law does not mention anything like this.
„If trees were felled like this everywhere, the overall character of the landscape would change at many places,” HN quotes Vaclav Pinta from the CSOP as saying.

Jan Kucera, from the Rail Inspection, however, reacts saying that „a couple of trees is not worth a human life.”

The environmentalists want the Environment Ministry to solve the problem just as it did in the case of trees along roads.