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Animal Skyway

Category: Transportation
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I run over several wild animals by accident and felt guilty for excessive human activities in the city.Can we build animal skyway that would allow animal travel safely from one side of the road to the other for food or family reunion?

guannie, Apr 22 2005

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Road crews already put up signs. Seems the animals can't read 'em and cross where ever they want to. It seems unlikely the animals would detour out of their way to a bridge or tunnel.

Hyenuf, Apr 25 2005

Maybe animal expert knows how to attract animal to the “skyway”? As we keep expand cities, animals not only lost their habitat but also lost their lives because of our need to drive around. This is not fair to them.

guannie, Apr 25 2005

It also occurs to me the animal's instincts would make it avoid a bridge. That probably tells them to stay away from areas that don't offer good avenues of escape.

I try to think of car/animal collisions as Darwin's Theory in action. The animals that don't learn to look both ways before crossing won't live to reproduce. Just think...in a couple thousand years this won't be a problem any more.

Hyenuf, Apr 27 2005

The problem is not the animal crossing the road, the problem is the human relying on the car too much. This is where you have to start thinking.

gummybear, May 18 2005

car skyways are better for this, while they are more expensive, the animals are more likley to cross under a bridge than over a skyway.

C2H6O, Feb 16 2006

There's a little gadget sold for $10+ that attaches to the front of a car and emits a high-pitched sound that alarms animals. It's meant to deter deer and moose from darting out in front of a car, which they have a tendency to do. Collisions with such large animals are dangerous and costly to drivers too. I suspect this would have deterrent effects on other critters as well. It wouldn't work perfectly, because a slow-moving animal crossing an Interstate wouldn't get warning of far-away cars when he began his incursion. But it might well cut collisions in half.

All that would be needed would be for a licensing agency to buy these in bulk and offer them free to motorists. (After a few pilot projects and studies demonstrated that there'd be a payoff, natch.)

Roger Knights, Jul 19 2008

PS: The sound is generated by the wind, not a battery, so it's fairly foolproof.

Roger Knights, Jul 19 2008