Colorado wildlife overpass cut vehicle-animal collisions by 91%

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorColorado's new wildlife overpass over Interstate 25 has cut animal-vehicle collisions by ninety-one percent, according to a newly released report.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSo tonight's question: is a fifteen-million-dollar bridge for elk the best-run project in America?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNo. Officials predicted a ninety percent drop, and it came in at ninety-one.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat's one point of overperformance, and in my experience that's how the trouble starts.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDale, the elk beat the government's own forecast. They're the only contractors on that interstate who finished ahead of schedule.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI'm with Kenji. Before the crossing, that stretch saw about one deer hit a day in peak spring and fall movement.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have covered ministries with worse numbers and no bridge.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA pronghorn crossed that highway for the first time in thirty years, according to reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThirty years of waiting, and it still got there before the paperwork.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's the Patrick thing again. The elk just walk across doing nothing, and the engineers get the credit.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd I'd rate it a nine for crossing safety.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOut of ten?

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThey piled wood into a pathway so coyotes and hawks can't pick off the small mammals.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's a bridge with security, and I've been through airports with less.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentVerdict time. Hands up if you'd cross it.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTwo hands up, and Dale's hand is on his tea. Chat, vote below. Brock, anything fall on the elk tonight?