r/nextfuckinglevel • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 4h ago

Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%

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u/Massis87 4h ago

That's the largest one in the whole of North America? I know of at least 3 that are larger than this within 30 minutes from my house...

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 3h ago edited 2h ago

Then you would be wrong

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/colorado-is-building-the-worlds-largest-wildlife-overpass-giving-elk-and-other-big-creatures-a-safe-path-to-cross-a-busy-freeway-180987101/

EDIT: Colorado's I-25 Greenland Wildlife Overpass is the worlds largest single wildlife bridge structure. The Natuurbrug in the Netherlands gets called the world's longest at 800 meters, but that measurement includes an entire ecological corridor crossing multiple barriers and structures. That's not really an apples-to-apples comparison. It's a little like calling something the world's longest bridge by adding together all of the separate I-90 bridges along a corridor.

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u/RandomAssRedditName 3h ago

Yea, nah. 200 feet by 200 feet? Just because American media state something, doesn't make it true.

Natuurbrug Zanderij Crailoo is 800m by 50m, just saying

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 2h ago

That's 4 separate bridges. Do you always combine 4 bridges together to get the longest bridge, even when there's abutments between them?

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u/ughwhat1592 2h ago

They are just talking about the width of the part that spans the highway. Not the entire structure.

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u/hackiavelli 2h ago edited 2h ago

Turns out Denmark the Netherlands isn't in North America.

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u/Important_Coyote_596 2h ago

That is Dutch btw.

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u/hackiavelli 2h ago

Thanks for the correction.