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Wildlife crossing is the umbrella term encompassing underpasses, overpasses, ecoducts, green bridges, amphibian/small mammal tunnels, and wildlife viaducts (Bank et al. 2002). All of these structures are designed to provide semi-natural corridors above and below roads so that animals can safely cross without endangering themselves and motorists ...
The bridge is meant to allow animals to circulate through and thrive in habitats that are fragmented by human development. [1] The crossing is particularly critical for the mountain lions of the Santa Monica Mountains, which have declined and become genetically isolated [2] because the Ventura Freeway prevents them from moving between the mountains and the Simi Hills to the north.
With 8-foot (2.4 m) tall, noise damping corten steel walls on both sides, the bridge is designed to appear to crossers as a small hill. [6] [7] The bridge has a 250,000-US-gallon (950,000 L) underground cistern to keep the bridge's plants irrigated via rainwater. [8]
A notable feat of railroad engineering, it is the world's only wye with two legs on bridges that meet in a tunnel. [1] The west and north legs of the wye are on bridges over Spanish Creek, and the southeast leg runs through a tunnel (Tunnel No. 32). [2] Just to the northwest, where the two bridged legs join, is Tunnel No. 31.
One animal has a dull brownish-orange coloring. Another is more brownish-green. Beautiful cane toads were found on roads, near bodies of water, along rivers, in suburbs and lurking under bridges ...
The Paw Paw Tunnel is a 3,118-foot-long (950 m) canal tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) in Allegany County, Maryland. [1] Located near Paw Paw, West Virginia, it was built to bypass the Paw Paw Bends, a six-mile (9.7 km) stretch of the Potomac River containing five horseshoe-shaped bends.
Click on the photo slider below to see what the bridge looked like on June 20, 2012, and March 26, 2024: Read more: Baltimore Key Bridge collapse live updates [Yahoo News]
The tunnel of tarps are in place to contain old paint and the blasting material. Workers are giving the old bridge a thorough cleaning as part of a $33.5 million project to repaint the 1955-built ...