Today’s Solutions: September 15, 2026

City streets and pavements in the United States have been engineered for decades to keep vehicle occupants and pedestrians safe. If streets include trees at all, they might be planted in small pavement pits, where, if constrained and with little water, they live only three to 10 years on average.

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