Why is such a tunnel needed?

funny@lemmus.org to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 701 points –

I found such a photo on the Internet and became interested in what function such a structure could perform.

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That's an unfinished nature bridge.

Quite a common feature in Europe. Gives the animals safe passage over busy roads.

More or less safe. Predators often camp these choke points for obvious reasons.

I read pedesterians often camp these choke points. I was picturing hobo joe sitting there to catch a passing rabbit or deer for a good meal.

Fucking scrubs, can't hunt without getting an unfair advantage.

I've heard that makes the spot real popular with sparkly vampires.

Common in New Jersey too. Were essentially Europe of America.

"Essentially" is doing SOOOO much work there (for anyone not from America).

Hey, we're trying, just as hard as my "essentially" is.

Well that explains the smell!

(I know very little about Europe or New Jersey)

I really hope you're making a joke cos of this one very limited example. Cos if not...

I mean, I thought it was obviously a joke, and you're there with me. Right? I took the use of land bridges, nature bridges, animal bridges, whatever term is used, and used it to compare the State of New Jersey to a continent, neither of which are homogenous enough to be able to even make a comparison.

I'm just curious why you really hope it's a joke though. I suppose I have the ire of some Europeans in drawing such a conclusion, and I'm genuinely curious why that's the case.

I guess the best place to start would be what's European?

The thing that made me question it is that Americans have a tendency of saying dumb stuff like you did, and mean it. Cos like you said, there is very little to properly compare them.

Were essentially Europe of America.

Get back to me when you have mandatory vacation time, universal healthcare, universal college-level education, universal pre-k, family leave, modern public transportation, non-crumbling infrastructure, climate-friendly policies, etc, etc.

NJ offers free community college, they're working on universal preschool but it varies district to district (my district is about to move it to thee years old), NJ Transit trains are built in Germany, so that's something right? We are working on offshore wind farms but the Dutch company backed out (and to be fair the economy is a shit show and I get it and I won't point fingers). NJ is pretty much as progressive as it gets in the US, which is why I referred to it, tongue in cheek, as the Europe of America.

Some of the US is trying, and the amount of unjustified shit reddit, and now Lemmy, throw indiscriminately at the US is foolish. To suggest Mississippi and Vermont are the same is just not true, but that's the vibe I get when I scroll through "America Bad" after "America Bad" post.

There's no reason for people to be up on their high horse when we're all a decade away from collapse. Let's be friends and joke with one another. Sometimes all you got is jokes.

Oh wow I didn't know new jersey had rail and walkable streets

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My first thought as well.

Also my first thought.

It was my first thought too

Actually it was my second.

Naaah, it was the first.

Honestly my first thought was snow shed but when I saw the nature bridge comments I was like oh derp yah that’s it. The slope isn’t steep enough to warrant a snow shed.

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