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The Banff Wildlife Crossing Project in Alberta, Canada, is essentially a bridge for animals & has reduced animal-vehicle collisions in the area by more than 80% (discoverapega.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Interesting, as a European I haven't seen them that much in countries I visited (France, Spain, Italy)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They're very common in the Netherlands, at least

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Might be their tallest land features!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

F you!

I mean it's true but..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could be worse. Denmark is similarly flat, but has a manmade ski hill...built on top of a trash heap. They've got it worse for "goofy attempts at raising their maximum elevation"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Netherlands sincerely considered building an artificial mountain just so we could have ONE, but discarded it because it wasn't goedkoop

Which is the most Dutch fact I knot, closely followed by “you can cycle from the north of Groningen to the south of (Dutch) Limburg in just under a day”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've seen plenty of them in France, it's actually quite common. They are called écoponts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Very interesting

18 ecoponts in ten years: https://radio.vinci-autoroutes.com/article/le-succes-des-ecoponts-9639

Cette initiative est vraiment une nouveauté dans le paysage français, parce qu'en Europe, il y en avait déjà notamment aux Pays-Bas, en Suisse, en Autriche.

Indeed already present in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

You see them in lots of locations in Germany as well as the Netherlands and France

[–] xav 4 points 5 months ago

Some parts of France have many of them above "autoroutes".