To be fair, I also now carry two 2.5Litre filled fuel cans & have the mounting kits for my top-case. Just trying to get motivated enough to fit it & dig out my riveting kit. FFS; three sets of front auxilary lighting pairs..its a insect/bat genocidal travelling weapon. There really should be laws to limit the power of modern lighting. We must live alongside nature & I had this strange thought the other day. When the AI take over and eventually deem humans pithy wasteful beings. They will dismiss are usefullness & separate themselves from us. And we'll be the road kill along the travesing commerce routes & fields. When the motorways/highways were created & some 50years on, no thoughts or plans for allowing the migration of wild animals we're included. Only really recently have I seen a bridge in the UK which included a small tree lined section so that animals can form scent paths & avoid 100% kill rate. So in this momentary time-travel experiement I was left numb. We humans were discarded creatures & as we didn't give a small allowance for wild-life. Nor did the Artifical-intelligence see fit to do the same,... ps: I hope my link to the bridge image works. Knutsford M56 just off from the M6 j19. pps: Tunnels & culverts of 8'x8' should be included in all new projects such as HS2 every mile.
When next in Surrey, take a look at the Miss James Bridge over the A3 by the Hindhead Tunnels. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5888492
In between Marlow and Henley on Thames are a couple of toad tunnels (drainpipes) laid under the road for migrating amphibians. I think these are quite common?
Thanks for the heads up @Edge_of_Town a number of wild-life bridges are been developed across europe. Got a view of your one from google maps. For those interested, a quick couple of links. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.u...s-over-highways-make-animals-and-people-safer https://unusualplaces.org/wildlife-crossing-in-netherlands/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_crossing Uk government report from 2015 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/green-bridges-safer-travel-for-wildlife
Good idea......I first came across wildlife related construction projects in the very early 70's when I worked as a student on the M1 Motorway near Long Buckby......it was a 'thrust-bored' tunnel primarily for badgers .....I think their had been a lot of road-kills which are of course a danger to fast traffic as well to animals!
