Notice how these bridges provide space for the animals to move and are open so the animals can see if the coast is clear (plus tree covered bridges could be bad in a land where being a 'knowing it all' brings people to a point where they attack people for, what are essentially, just words - not even swear words... where was I? Oh yeah, idiots could use tree covered bridges for vandalism or just to attack cars below or torture animals by throwing them on the road etc. No, Oklahoma, not road kill for dinner. Just to be mean)
Road Kill is an 8 billion a year problem! Well, in most places...
A Simple Concrete Bridge That Could Save America’s Wildlife
Michael
Van Valkenburgh Associates win a design competition for an animal
crossing that could help solve our $8 billion roadkill problem.
Jurors in the first-ever international competition to design a wildlife-safety bridge announced a winner on Sunday: Landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) and the construction firm HNTB for a foliage-covered pre-cast concrete span that, in the architects? telling, could rise over roads anywhere cars and animals collide, whether the highways of West Virginia or a major interstate in Colorado.
More examples of animal crossing bridges from The Smithsonian:
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