When they built the A2 highway in Poland from Warsaw to Berlin, the EU required them to build wildlife overpasses. They also installed wildlife cameras that were operated by motion detectors to capture photographs of the furry critters that used the multi-million dollar overpasses.
In over 5 years they did not capture a single photograph of an animal using the expensive overpass.
Obviously, some state worker saw the photo of one of these in Belgium that has been making its way around the internet.
It would be a lot cheaper if we just hired El Chapo’s people to dig a tunnel.
Wild life lives matter
I am in California, and this is so typical.
Who is going to operate the school for mountain lions to teach them how to read the signs directing them to the overpasses?
Speculation by some locals is that if the deer are smart enough to find it, the mountain lions will be too.
And the only guaranteed stupid animals are the idiots that funded it.
Go Cailfornia
Wait, Agoura? There’s undeveloped land north of 101 in Agoura? Guess I haven’t been there in too long to remember accurately.
Establishing a high ground for predatory cats.
What could possibly go wrong?
And some wonder why the highway trust fund is broke.
California should fix their existing crappy roads.
Time to start putting these as check boxes on the tax form. “Check this box to increase tour taxes by $25 for the mountain lion overpass.” I envision lots of check boxes...maybe pages if them. If the box isn’t checked, no money for the project. Two mountain lion lovers get to bilk a couple of million out of taxpayers who could care less.
Interestingly, many of the symptoms “wildlife biologists” attribute to inbreeding of large predators are also caused by maternal malnutrition more easily assignable to overpopulation and a lack of native plants to serve as forage for their herbivorous prey.
I work in the area by Lindero bridge not far from this proposed animal bridge. Agoura Road runs right by the building I am in and it has been modified repeatedly in the past 5 years. The dividers between lanes torn up twice, the road marker in the divider that has the street name has been replaced twice. The sidewalk just before the street crossing torn up and decorative brick inserted. Lindero bridge from Agouro had added lanes that now has a new defective divider. It is too far out in lane so cars clip it when making a left lane change so that will be rebuilt again. So what I read below does not surprise me at all. Some corrupt people have their hand in the till.
Agoura Road to be widened
http://www.toacorn.com/news/2015-01-01/Community/Agoura_Road_to_be_widened.html
In a presentation to the City Council on Dec. 10, Agoura Hills public works director Ramiro Adeva said the water district will not be installing a new 8-inch recycled water line as part of the project due to bids that were higher than expected.
As a result, the road will have to be torn up a second time, sometime in the future, and the pipe installed when the water district’s customer base has increased enough to justify the higher cost.