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The first sentence is almost completely subjective, and the leading fact in second sentence gives the best evidence against an overpass in this thread. The only thing that is going to make this more obvious to the mountain lions would be a few more dead deer carcasses as a result of the car lights! lets jump off the side into oncoming hidden traffic behavior.

No, I do think that happened and that the underpass was the more reasonable solution; why Caltrans required due to the bridge’s size and cost to have its completion be reliant on donations from the public.

Cutting and covering a few lanes at a time would not have cost $92 million. Even better, a horizontal drill would have less chance of lane closures than the bridge option.

I already saw that video and my comment reflects what he states that underpasses usually cheaper than overpasses like this (9:10); given that fact more (culverts - 9:30) could be built for the more numerous non-apex species that do not lend well to being diverted miles to such a monstrosity. Of the listed species expected to benefit from this crossing including bobcats, coyotes, gray foxes, birds of prey, skunks, rodents, American badgers, American black bears, fence lizards and mule deer only the mule deer have may be having herding behavior causing carelessness to not use such an underpass.

> 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