Neither the MRT protests nor the debates about the issue that took place online and in the media were able stop the system's advance. Police protected the excavators on the day they moved onto the mill's grounds, and the trees were removed.
接連的抗爭與網路和媒體上的辯論攻防，都沒有辦法阻擋捷運入侵；在工程怪手開至糖廠當日，大批警察鎮守著，老樹最終仍躲不過被移除的命運。