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I grew up in Agoura Hills, it's funny to see this on HN of all places. And in another amusing twist, I just drove under this two days ago because I am visiting my parents this weekend.

It's something the locals have known was needed for a long time, I'm glad they were finally able to get it built.

I live nearby and drive past it nearly every day. It’s been fascinating watching its construction. They’ve done a very good job not impacting traffic and only closed down the highway late at night for a week or two.

Introducing wolves back to a relatively small part of Wisconsin has had a positive economic impact from reduced car crashes with deer. This crossing will no doubt help the cougars, and that’ll help the humans who have to drive on this terrifying part of the 101.

https://wolf.org/media-releases/new-study-shows-wolves-save-...

Is this not also a wildfire bridge? I know freeways are usually important wildfire breaks but I guess its easier to know thus is here ahead of a fire

I had to google and double check there isn't another place in Europe called Santa Monica Mountains. Because building bridge for Wildlife seems very European rather than American, or at least modern American. I remember a lot of them in Holland and other places.

Let's hope more of these get built in US. ( While not being crazy expensive )

For those interested in learning more about road ecology, Crossings is an interesting read.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123627807-crossings

Gigantic roads like that make me crazy! I can't understand how people subject themselves to living near these giant impassible rivers of concrete! Even a city road that's not a freeway - on a visit to sf I needed to walk across Harrison and then 6th street. 12 lanes to walk across, two lights to wait for! I felt like tearing my hair out.

At least they finally built a way for the animals to cross again. I can't imagine how long it would take to walk across that eco bridge thing.

Over in the UK we're just finished building one on the M25, the world's biggest car park during rush hour.

https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/wisley-sche...

This is not a bad thing, but my first thought was: anything but housing.

There's a lot of people in this forum that greatly underestimate how hard and expensive it is to build things in the real world when you need to get things right the first time (because it can't just patch it later).

I would pay stupid money to have America change the lyrics to Ventura Highway to include the overpass and then perform it at the ribbon cutting.

Like Elton did for Diana with Candle in the Wind.

The book “the lion in the living room” documents P-22 and LAs love for the cat very well, it’s a great read and I recommend it.

As much as I’m happy about this I find myself skeptical that wildlife will learn to use it. Do animals walk along the side of the highway looking for openings? Have there been any studies on the efficacy of these wildlife bridges?

Considering it doesn’t have to carry much weight, why couldn’t they make it out of wood to cut costs?

Looks like a bandaid. Main issue here is this crazy 10 lanes highway. This should not exist.

Huh, why does the embedded video look like someone played it over a Zoom screen-sharing session, and another participant of that Zoom meeting did a screen record?

Amazing, California can build a wildlife bridge, but god forbid they build higher density housing.

> having required 26 million pounds of concrete

the height restriction alone should have been reason enough to go with a tunnel, but how could CA miss an opportunity for construction waste /s