It is a sad day for residents of southern Wake County who travel Holly Springs Road between Cary Parkway and Penny Road.

The once stately woods that graced the gentle curves of the road have been bulldozed in the Town of Cary's definition of progress.

The town that so broadly boasts of environmental concern and demands homeowners to get a permit to remove a tree has forever altered the landscape to install a sewer pipe for its growing southern edge.

Rather than tunnel underneath the landscape (as they plan in the adjacent Lochmere Birkhaven community) or go along the open, opposite side of Holly Springs Road, the town has chosen to denude the hillside of trees and scrape the cliffs that reminded some of a brief sojourn through the mountains.

Is that smell of cut trees and disturbed earth the smell of progress or hypocrisy?

Judy Currin

Cary