Michigan, Wisconsin and other states should consider this kind of highway redesign, especially in the north country:
When the Minnesota Department of Transportation planned to rebuild Highway 61 along the North Shore, engineers spent most of their time thinking about what would be riding on top of the roadway.
Now, they're also considering what might pass beneath.
As the section of the North Shore highway over Palisade Creek is rebuilt this summer, what had been planned as a steep culvert impassable to coaster brook trout, steelhead and other fish instead will be a bridge under which fish can swim easily.
Moreover, the bridge has been designed to encourage wildlife -- such as deer, wolves, bear and lynx -- to pass underneath rather than walk across the road. And anyone who has driven the North Shore highway, especially in the dark, knows keeping deer off the road is a good thing.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/news/local/11243206.htm
Posted by Dave at March 28, 2005 04:55 PM