I’m wondering if there are certain environmental circumstances that necessitate so many of these wildlife crossing or whether there are other reasons.
I’m aware that all of these create jobs as well but in terms of infrastructure investments there seem to be options with more of an impact.
I have also wondered whether there might be some military use? A means to effectively block major supply lines before they fall into enemy hands…
Maybe I just don’t notice them as much elsewhere.
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Some are for wildlife to provide safe crossing. Others are connecting military training grounds, e.g. those closer to Wroclaw above A4 (you can see tanks there sometimes).
I am guessing that’s because most of Polish highways are relatively new, built after a law (probably initiated by EU) was passed that required construction of these safe crossings for animals. I am glad these exist.
Part of the reason is that polish highways are rather new compared to western countries, and so, due to EU regulations and money, we made more of this crossings.
Its because EU funded the road and these are the standards in which they had to build them.
Newer roads, newer code. I’ve seen a lot of these in Alberta, Canada as well.
You’re overthinking it. These aren’t for collapsing in case of a military invasion. It’s just for animals.
Because Poland is cool 😎
Create jobs? Infrastructure investment options with more of an impact? Does everything have to be political?
There’s a lot of protected areas in Poland and we just like to have our wildlife happy.
They make driving safer, becasue animals will cross anyway.
Our deers are lazy, they don’t want to go too far to cross the road, so they demand more of these bridges.
There’s military aspect to it
Super cool. Less chances of deer crossing a live highway
Apart from what has already been mentioned, Poland has one of the largest contiguous forest areas and quite an impressive population of relatively big mammals like deer or wolves or lynx. Most likely, they wouldn’t have been built if we hadn’t been an EU member.
Yes, some of these are build at army request (every infrastructure project is consulted with them), to make crossing of highways possible for heavy equipment.
Because they make building a road more expensive.
A lot of EU founds to spend in limited time
we are guest in the forest, we destroy, they are good for animals
That’s because we respect bobers and hedgehogs more than other nations
Because EU goes for more wind power plant with windmills and Poland still want to keep their forests with animals. Those bridges makes passing the roads safe.
These cross paths for animals are simply required by EU directives and therefore by government-made documents. It’s just how designing in civil engineering works. Most highways in Poland were made or redesigned quite recently, so were designed based on newer, stricter guidelines than in other countries.
i wonder if we are not teaching wolves to just camp those bridges and they become uselss
Anything about Poland on the internet: **IS THIS MILITARY?!!!?!?** I really hate that gunho euro-texas bullshit.
It’s literally the wildlife/environment protection infrastructure, mandated by the EU, has nothing to do with military or defense.
Ja nigdy nie widziałam takich xd
As someone stated it’s because they are new and build to new code. But funny thing is we have highways (140km/h speed limit, strict regulations regarding size of the road and how it connects to other roads) and speedways (120km/h speed limit, much easier to build). In Poland you will find much more of speedways type roads, BUT what is interesting is that most of them are build using highways regulations.
Imagine UK having those.
wee l;ike bridgges
> I have also wondered whether there might be some military use?
^^
this comment right here mr. officer
This needs to be implemented world wide. Its a win, win. You save animals, humans, headaches with car insurance claims, medical bills, totalled cars. I’d say thats a pretty good list to avoid.
funnyli enouhg im gonna start writing a bachelor paper on thesse ecological pathaways and how well they do their job in couple months
That’s because we actually still have animals that might need to cross the highway, along with it being mandated by the EU law (and almost all Polish highways were build after that law was passed).
probably training grounds for goats to storm the beaches
Trolls.
Because wildlife wants to cross and it’s better to give them pathways to do so than to become a pgysics textbook excercise of “What happens if a 1.5t car drives along at 130km/h and hits a stationary deer that weighs 650kg”
Apart from them being new there’s also the fact that we do have wildlife. Places like Germany were heavily industrialised so they don’t really have many natural habitats left.
It look cool.
I think it’s mainly because we still have some wild life in our forests 😀 And we’d rather keep it that way.
Very common in Canada
People do not build bridges elsewhere?