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As I drive into the city everyday, I see at least 15 dead animals on the side of the road each way. Yesterday I saw a mother duck leading her baby ducklings toward the highway because she needed to get to the lake across the road. Earlier this spring, I saw a struggling, injured deer on the side of the road, and two highways workers were laughing over it. I wanted to scream in their ugly faces, but I was driving. It’s no excuse, I know. What is wrong with people? Let’s make an overpass for the animals over the 101 like the one in the Banff National Park. We need to protect Nova Scotia’s wildlife, work WITH the animals! I wish that everyone could see the beauty in all animals despite our differences. —The Toughest Mother-Clucker in Town
This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2015.
Aside from a really stupid idea, I’m pretty sure that you didn’t see highway workers laughing at an injured deer.
I know the pot in BC is really good but building overpasses for animals means someone got really high…
There are ”Deer Crossing” signs along our highways but the deer ignore them.
We can’t afford to maintain the current roads and you want what?
Clearly the difficulty is linguistic. How would the animals be directed to the overpasses? Assuming that they would be directed by signs, what “language” would be employed? Does each species have their own “patois” or is there some sort of common “lingua franca” which might be employed which all could understand?
There’s a similar problem here in Quebec with unilingual Anglophones and American tourists whose bodies litter the highways.
So do we put neon signs in the forests showing the animals where these overpasses are?
**There are ”Deer Crossing” signs along our highways but the deer ignore them.**
Kudos to Koda! I am ROTFLMAO, as the youngsters say.
Koda, that was a killer line. Thanks for the morning chuckle.
So would we put up signs written in porcupine, raccoon, deer directing these animals to the over pass just up the road from their chosen route across the highways ?
One could try putting a deer whistle on the front of their vehicle.
yeah, as everyone mentioned, it’s insane to think that would even work.
what we need to do is raise the roads up everywhere so the animals can just meander across below as they would have had we not disrupted their land.
Basically bridges for cars everywhere roads are.
Totally feasible.
Just don’t get in an accident, it’d be a bitch of a fall.
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That makes exactly as much sense as your idiotic idea.
“How would they be directed to the overpass?”
See New Brunswick. Animal fences all along the highways that lead to underpasses. So it’s doable. The bigger question: is it worth the cost?
I would be willing to wager that the number of animals killed is directly proportional to the number of cars on the road. If there were fewer cars on the road there would be less road kill.
So, OB and others who are concerned about road kill, the most elegant solution to reducing road kill is for more of the drivers who commute alone in their cars to accept the inconvenience of taking mass transit or car pooling. I see many, many people alone in their cars every day.
We could implement more expensive solutions but as a wise man said, why carpet the entire house when you can simply wear slippers?
There is a woman in NB who made the news when she wanted the deer/moose signs moved because it wasn’t safe for the animals to cross there. She was serious.
People that think deer are going to enter a tunnel have spent too much time in the urban jungle.
Oh, you city folks are so funny. Deer cross where they cross. It’s where their ancestors crossed and it has become ingrained in them. Doesn’t matter what you want to build there, deer cross where they cross.
And don’t be so provincial. If they can do it in New Brunswick, can’t it be done in NS?
In Amherst (Massachusetts, but the same arsewipe namesake) they build a salamander crossing over 20 years ago. The little critters use it every year during whatever it is they do that makes them want to cross the road.
Are you referring to General Amherst as an “arsewipe?” Treason I say, treason!