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Guinness

posted on 4/4/08 at 10:35 PM Reply With Quote
Is it still April Fools Day?

"Special bridges to help bats with their flight path have been built as part of a £42m road scheme in Cornwall."

£250,000 for a Bat Bridge? FFS!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7330846.stm

Your's in stunned disbelief.

Mike






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NS Dev

posted on 4/4/08 at 10:38 PM Reply With Quote
I bet you're not as amazed as the " designer" and manufacturer of the bridges........................

bet they can't believe they got away with it!!!





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jlparsons

posted on 4/4/08 at 10:48 PM Reply With Quote
"The removal of any features which the signals bounce off along routes they frequently use can cause bats to become confused."

Didn't we used to call this "natural selection"?

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Mr Whippy

posted on 4/4/08 at 11:03 PM Reply With Quote
bats can see just fine

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Although they can't see color, bats can see better than we do at night. And, many bats can also "see" in the dark by using echolocation.
quote:


http://www.factmonster.com/spot/kidsbats.html


[Edited on 4/4/08 by Mr Whippy]





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Triton

posted on 4/4/08 at 11:24 PM Reply With Quote






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Triton

posted on 4/4/08 at 11:25 PM Reply With Quote
See, move a hedge and sat nav goes to pot....





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RK

posted on 5/4/08 at 12:33 AM Reply With Quote
how much to put some more hedges in instead? I'm sure the building contractor can still milk the public purse on that...
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Richard Quinn

posted on 5/4/08 at 09:00 AM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by RK
how much to put some more hedges in instead? I'm sure the building contractor can still milk the public purse on that...


Whoah! It's generally not the contractor that makes the money on this! It's the designers now bowing to a perceived public pressure. One particular road scheme I was involved with was going just fine until one "concerned individual" indicated that we may be going to affect a potential bat roost (despite all previous surveys indicating that this was not the case!). This brought the whole project to a standstill while the scheme was redesigned to include some further mitigation including the "bat bridges" as in the story in the link.

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robinbastd

posted on 5/4/08 at 09:38 PM Reply With Quote
First they help the bats, and then they help the batty:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7332363.stm





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