World's largest wildlife crossing reaches critical milestone. Now what?
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by WillAdams
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The U.S. needs similar crossings for all the regions separated by the Interstate system, and somewhere near the center of each region so created, a large wilderness preserve which has roads removed:
This is a great initiative which I fully support. But why does it take 4-6 years (including several months of complete road closure) to build what is, in the grand scheme of things, a quite small bridge?
by kibwen
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Roads are such an apocalyptic blight on the landscape that I'm all for burying as many of them as possible. 200 feet down, 200 billion feet to go.
by jvdvegt
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Is it the biggest wildlife crossing? This one [1] is 50x150 meters. Granted, it's in flat land so it's not covered with such a thick layer of soil.
Put all human infrastructure under ground so that one is left with a beautiful mostly untouched planet. Addresses some aspects of global climate change no further need for HVAC. Reduces power load on the grid. Animals can have the surface of their planet back.
by teekert
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One wonders about why they didn’t choose a tunnel, leaving that ultra special soul fully intact…
by jkuria
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Why is there no wildlife? I expected this to be about the Maasai Mara/Serengeti wildebeest crossing :)
by zoklet-enjoyer
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Why is this taking so long to complete?
by recursive
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Does this type of wildlife crossing actually work?
by thimkerbell
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Clickbait title.
by metalman
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vastly simpler to build the road up on pylons for a few miles.
1, build new road on pylons beside the old road for a few miles.
2 ,switch traffic to new road on pylons.
3 , rip up old road
4 , build some fences ,plant some grass and shrubs
5 ' repeat in each eco zone and local water shed and other areas where there are lots of critters....too chicken to cross the road
by aaron695
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by pizlonator
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Yes! Let's build this stuff instead of homes.
by jamra
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An animal crossing built right next to a school. I wonder if the coyotes that will cross will be a threat to the children.
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