California Bridge to Nowhere Remains Unfinished, Now Costs $114 Million

Every time I see a dead critter by the highway I wonder: Why can't we build gently-sloping pedestrian bridges, topped with grass and bushes, for wildlife to cross over safely? It's not just good for them; people crash their cars due to deer all the time.

Well, a government filled with left-wing fuck-up grifters is why.

In 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (WAWC), a project featuring an overpass for animals atop ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California.
At the ceremony, Newsom boasted that the state had committed $54 million. He promised to "complete the job within another $10 million," before seeming to hedge on whether that final sum would do the trick.
Officials projected a 2025 completion date for the overpass, and estimated that the entire project -- which includes the bridge and other ancillary developments -- would cost $92 million, some of it coming from private philanthropists.
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Pratt, a cougar-sweater-wearing environmental activist who serves on WAWC's Partner Leadership Team, is the program's public face. She is also a regional executive director of the national Wildlife Federation. In 2021, the group received a $25 million grant from "Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation" for the bridge that bears the late philanthropist's name.
That money apparently was not enough. This past January, donning a hard hat and a "#SAVELACOUGARS" jersey, Pratt announced a possible $21 million overage. She effectively blamed President Trump, attributing the multimillion-dollar overrun to "tariffs, inflation, [and] labor problems."
"There's no boondoggle," she said. "Given the times we're living in," a potential $21 million overage is "not that bad."

Over $100 million for a bridge which only needs to bear the weight of, checks notes, skunks and the occasional herd of deer. Oh, and six inches of dirt, maybe.

This is not an overpass for vehicles. It does not need to bear the weight of multiton trucks driving at 75mph. The engineering needed here is pretty forgiving.

But still, they can't finish it for less than $114 million.

And if you think that will be the final bill, I've got a Butterfly Bridge to sell you.

(Yes, the bridge must also serve as a path for butterflies. Think of the additional engineering requirements to bear the weight of several dozen butterflies.)

How can you degenerates literally be bad at everything?

Here's how: They're all taking a piece.

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Why has a project primarily consisting of a bridge for animals cost over $100 million? One reason is that Newsom and WAWC's philanthropic supporters apparently don't mind it becoming a patronage program.As the WAWC-endorsing Wildlife Crossing Fund notes, citing the California Department of Transportation's estimate, "for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."
A group of experts apparently adds to the operation's expense. A fungi whiz, Pratt says, worked as a WAWC habitat designer, periodically scrutinizing root samples under a microscope. A contracted soil scientist said his process involves assessing local dirt to "rebuild it ... as close to nature as possible."

1, that's a scam, 2, you build a slope, a bridge, put some dirt on it, and it's done. It's close enough to nature. We just want animals crossing here, not attempting to build animal cities.

By the way: I think any path covered in dirt would be "closer to nature" than the highway it spans, no?

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At the groundbreaking ceremony, Newsom envisioned WAWC as a catalyst for the construction of wildlife crossings across the state. California, he boasted, set aside $105 million "to replicate projects like this all up and down the state." Pratt reportedly thinks "hundreds more crossings are needed."

Here's the thing: their own incompetence and greed keeps them from accomplishing any of the things they claim to want to accomplish. If they'd built this... bike path with dirt for something reasonable like $15 million, then yeah, this would serve as a model for building additional bridges.

But at a cost of $114 million and climbing for one incomplete bridge? No. You have once again fucked everything up for everyone, including the animals.

But you'll all still get paid, right? That's the important thing.

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BREAKING - Gavin Newsom's wildlife "bridge to nowhere," promised to cost California taxpayers $50 million in 2022, has more than doubled to $114 million and it's still unfinished.

How is California even a real place? pic.twitter.com/gddX28UyMm
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) March 18, 2026

This is the Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, it’s the world’s largest wildlife overpass spanning 10 lanes freeway in Agoura Hills, California

It is expected to open late 2026. It costs roughly $114 million dollars to build

The developers donated to politicians

Several key… pic.twitter.com/QmSHc8LXdI
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 15, 2026

California wanted to build a $100 million butterfly bridge. This is the woman they put in charge.

"There's no boondoggle," she insists. The $21 million cost overrun is "not that bad." pic.twitter.com/Mpm8YqqK6d
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) March 18, 2026

BREAKING: @BethPratt, the woman responsible for California's $114 million animal bridge boondoggle, has responded to our investigation with a rambling Facebook post blaming the weather and "unprecedented biodiversity collapse."

This is what happens when you put crazy in charge. pic.twitter.com/tGK4C8jyh0
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) March 18, 2026

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1 In early

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 18, 2026 05:35 PM (fcDpY)

2 Nooded

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 18, 2026 05:37 PM (fcDpY)

3 Hello?

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 18, 2026 05:37 PM (fcDpY)

4 I’ll wait

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 18, 2026 05:38 PM (fcDpY)

5

How in the world do people think up the crazy shit?

Posted by: four seasons at March 18, 2026 05:38 PM (3ek7K)

6 Title checks out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 18, 2026 05:39 PM (wVcYX)

7 If pissing away taxpayer money is wrong, I don’t wanna be right

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 18, 2026 05:39 PM (fcDpY)

8 Oh, how we used to dream of being raped by Donald Trump! Instead of raping us, Donald Trump forced us to compete in an "Apprentice" style reality show where we'd have to sell hot dogs to dirty bums! Whoever lost was sold to the bums as meat!

Boy, Trump must have thought the sun shined out of your ass to rape you!

Posted by: One of the Four Yorkshiremen (who Trump also raped when he was 10) at March 18, 2026 05:39 PM (1wjle)

9 The developers donated to politicians, most of the funds ttoo.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 18, 2026 05:40 PM (Q/FnY)

10
"for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."

Why don't they use spoons?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 18, 2026 05:40 PM (Cqx++)

11 Lucius Fabricius, where are you?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 18, 2026 05:40 PM (zZu0s)

12 I have seen some stupid shit but this tops the list at this point.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 18, 2026 05:40 PM (+nEug)

13 If they made the bridge on time and under budget, the "right people" wouldn't have gotten a lot of money that they very much deserve.

Government exists to ensure that the market's failure to pay these wonderful, moral people like CEOs instead of baristas, which they are barely qualified to be.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2026 05:40 PM (ZOv7s)

14 Can you imagine an infrastructure project on the scale of the current L.A. freeway system being undertaken by todays CA leadership? I'm surprised that they can even maintain it.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (iymdz)

15 Why don't they use spoons?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Milt the stilt!

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (fcDpY)

16 Obviously this is a waste of money, but how do you even get the wildlife to use the bridge?

Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (vSvIl)

17 Its hard to believe that a clearly unbalanced leftist woman put in charge was unable to do her job

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (PYyV9)

18 It's open season on pillaging the California taxpayers. They're not even trying to hide it.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (IBsfd)

19 You know, by Ukrainian standards, 25 mil is not that bad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (zZu0s)

20 Rookie mistake, I read the content, went to to grab the quote too.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (Q/FnY)

21 But at a cost of $114 million and climbing for one incomplete bridge? No. You have once again fucked everything up for everyone, including the animals.

I like the forty foot wall the animals have to climb to get onto the bridge, that's some very fine design.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (PYyV9)

22 Has anyone seen the bridge??
- some 70's singer

Posted by: dantesed at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (Oy/m2)

23 Lot of people with their hands out in California. It's expensive buying those votes.

Posted by: huerfano at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (98kQX)

24 Obviously this is a waste of money, but how do you even get the wildlife to use the bridge?
Posted by: Methos

You put up "Cross Here" signs.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (IBsfd)

25 This bridge was always pure grift and handouts to leftwing activists and special interests. I don’t think the concept of animal bridge even makes sense. The animals cross wherever they want to cross. It’s not like they are gonna follow signs to a bridge.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (hxd26)

26 Wildlife doesn't even need dirt to cross the f'ing road! It is a giant scam.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (n5tGW)

27 So every picture of this Pratt women she’s in the middle of running her mouth, probably uptalking with vocal fry, no doubt.

She talked her way into $114 million.
And people actually listened.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (6ydKt)

28 "for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."

I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.

Posted by: fd at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (vFG9F)

29 I admit I'm no biologist, but I do have a question:

Why do butterflies need a bridge?

Don't they have something inherent to their biological structure that's *better* than a bridge?

Oh, I dunno, let's call them "wings."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (ESVrU)

30 17 Its hard to believe that a clearly unbalanced leftist woman put in charge was unable to do her job
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Unfair. Her job was to piss away money. She’s great at her job

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (fcDpY)

31 The animal ten miles down the road is still going to cross the highway and get hit.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (+nEug)

32
We just want animals crossing here, not attempting to build animal cities.

Going to animal city
Animal city here I come
Got some crazy little weasels there
And I'm a gonna get me one

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (Cqx++)

33 Why did the chicken cross the road?

Posted by: fd at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (vFG9F)

34 It couldn't, you hater!

Posted by: fd at March 18, 2026 05:44 PM (vFG9F)

35 >>>25 This bridge was always pure grift and handouts to leftwing activists and special interests. I don’t think the concept of animal bridge even makes sense. The animals cross wherever they want to cross. It’s not like they are gonna follow signs to a bridge.

eh, animals learn to follow trails to water and and such. they'll eventually make a trail to the bridge, which will be a safer area than the highway.

Posted by: ace at March 18, 2026 05:44 PM (1wjle)

36 You put up "Cross Here" signs.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (IBsfd)

Put up signs reading 'Free Deer blowjobs' in Deer at either end.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 18, 2026 05:44 PM (zZu0s)

37 I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.
Posted by: fd at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (vFG9F)
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For $114 million, I bet we could use their bones to build the bridge.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2026 05:44 PM (ESVrU)

38 I know little about constructing bridges, but give me a $114 million and I'll have it done in a year and profit $100 million.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 05:44 PM (n5tGW)

39 "It’s not like they are gonna follow signs to a bridge."

Animals are lazy, just like leftists, and do eventually figure out that bridges make crossing streams a lot easier. I've seen bears, bison and down south, Australian possums use bridges instead of getting their little toes wet.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at March 18, 2026 05:44 PM (j7INY)

40 Remember when $114 million was real money and NOT a rounding error?

I wonder if the animal crossing leads the poor creatures to Democratic sex den? Transgenderism was cute but wait until you see what's next.

Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 05:45 PM (Sco7b)

41 Where's that confounded bridge?!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 18, 2026 05:45 PM (0aYVJ)

42 Shit, I can fix their bridge to nowhere problem right now

Just call it a bird sanctuary.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at March 18, 2026 05:45 PM (OIzrC)

43 So, if it top O duh bridge has EXPERTS making it natural, how comes it don't look like the surrounding area?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2026 05:46 PM (mP0Kj)

44 Compared to the "high speed train to nowhere" this is nothing.

Billions stolen and not a mile of track laid.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2026 05:46 PM (sKqQm)

45 eh, animals learn to follow trails to water and and such. they'll eventually make a trail to the bridge, which will be a safer area than the highway.

They just need a few more billion dollars to finish the ramps!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 05:46 PM (PYyV9)

46 A deer, skunk and coyote walk into a bar.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 18, 2026 05:46 PM (+nEug)

47 >>> Why do butterflies need a bridge?

Because they identify as beavers.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 05:46 PM (n5tGW)

48 That's the LA cougar? I would have thought LA could do better than that.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 18, 2026 05:47 PM (Fs0KI)

49 I dunno
Could be a picnic pavilion
Suicide jump spot
Great possibilities

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 18, 2026 05:48 PM (tcsrY)

50 So $144M x 0 feet = , um, carry the 0

I am stuck

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2026 05:48 PM (Ia/+0)

51 >>>(Yes, the bridge must also serve as a path for butterflies. Think of the additional engineering requirements to bear the weight of several dozen butterflies.)

lol I might have bought that if I could figure out how to herd butterflies onto a bridge.

Butterfly bridge image:
https://is.gd/6SW4ko

Posted by: No Name Today at March 18, 2026 05:48 PM (8mulE)

52 Dog and Butterfly

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at March 18, 2026 05:48 PM (x29G8)

53 Put up signs reading 'Free Deer blowjobs' in Deer at either end.

Antler? I didn't even know 'er.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 18, 2026 05:48 PM (Fs0KI)

54 21 But at a cost of $114 million and climbing for one incomplete bridge? No. You have once again fucked everything up for everyone, including the animals.

I like the forty foot wall the animals have to climb to get onto the bridge, that's some very fine design.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 05:42 PM (PYyV9)

And meanwhile, we can't get the State to fund the widening of our bridges, or Highway 99 here in the Valley.

Partly because of the on again off again No Speed Rail project... where after 20 years they don't even have the ROUTE actually planned yet.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2026 05:48 PM (mP0Kj)

55 I'm surprised there's not already a homeless camp up there.

Posted by: fd at March 18, 2026 05:49 PM (vFG9F)

56 I HATE it when you get one of those unprecedented biodiversity collapses! It always happens on a Monday, too!

Posted by: Max Power at March 18, 2026 05:49 PM (q177U)

57 Don't they need to fund a program to teach the animals to use the bridge?

And if it's for cougars, shouldn't there be teenage boys on the top?

Posted by: Eeyore at March 18, 2026 05:49 PM (AlhUl)

58 Just one more reason Gavin Newsom should never been within a thousand miles of the Oval Office.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 18, 2026 05:49 PM (MNCvZ)

59 The idea behind the bridge is good, it's the execution that sucks. Virtually unlimited government money attracts grifters like flies to $hit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 18, 2026 05:50 PM (0N4FZ)

60 >>>Can you imagine an infrastructure project on the scale of the current L.A. freeway system being undertaken by todays CA leadership? I'm surprised that they can even maintain it.
Posted by: Halfhand at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (iymdz)

HAHAHA!!! Oh they don't Halfhand, they don't.

Posted by: Max Power at March 18, 2026 05:50 PM (q177U)

61 Why do butterflies need a bridge?

Because they identify as beavers.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 05:46 PM (n5tGW)

Why does God need a starship?

Posted by: Captain James T Kirk at March 18, 2026 05:50 PM (zZu0s)

62 I see a lot of critter bridges in my travels in the Rocky Mountain West. They are far more modest by comparison, and in addition to the bridge itself, there is a system of high fences to further coax the critters to the bridge. They are always over high traffic roads where known migration routes exist. Does not eliminate roadkill, but I believe it certainly cuts it down pretty effectively. And the fences even have ramps that allow the critter out, but not in. Do not underestimate the derpiness of a mule deer.

That California one is just plain stupid.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 18, 2026 05:51 PM (0aYVJ)

63 California highways are 3rd world at best.

Posted by: Max Power at March 18, 2026 05:51 PM (q177U)

64 Just one more reason Gavin Newsom should never been within a thousand miles of the Oval Office.

Honestly he is vapid and drugged up enough he'd be another Biden; a platform for the leftists to use to get power and money.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 05:51 PM (PYyV9)

65 Wow. A bridge that spans a whole 10 car lanes.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 18, 2026 05:51 PM (viF8m)

66 How much did the EIR cost?

Just kidding. Projects that SAVE DA EARF(tm) never have to do one. Whereas if there's a mud puddle on your property, the EPA will be up your ass quicker than you can say 'Eminent Domain' calling it a wetland.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 18, 2026 05:52 PM (Ubow6)

67 I just went to the DOGE website.

Are they gone now? Nothing showed up.

I'm hoping it's just been deemed inefficient to have Canadians looking at the site.

Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 05:52 PM (Sco7b)

68 28 "for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."

I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.
Posted by: fd at March 18, 2026 05:43 PM (vFG9F)

So, $77K per job?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2026 05:52 PM (mP0Kj)

69 I think the overall concept is a great idea, and, in a sane world, easily done. In fact, someone should have thought of this a long time ago.

But shit!

It's in California, where all good and decent things go to die!!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 18, 2026 05:52 PM (dmDsy)

70 This bridge was always pure grift and handouts to leftwing activists and special interests. I don’t think the concept of animal bridge even makes sense. The animals cross wherever they want to cross. It’s not like they are gonna follow signs to a bridge.

eh, animals learn to follow trails to water and and such. they'll eventually make a trail to the bridge, which will be a safer area than the highway.
Posted by: ace at March 18, 2026 05:44 PM (1wjle)
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Within reasonable geographic distances, yes. But we’re talking about a huge highway and one bridge.

Some predators are smarter and might figure it out, although with predators on the bridge the prey animals will avoid it like the plague. Which will be a huge problem: if the paths become a game trail — which they will, because predators are smart — then the prey animals will avoid the path and cross into traffic.

So yes, I agree with you in theory, but I think in practice even a fully functions bridge — untainted by the smelly slimy taint of CA commie smegma — won’t save wildlife in any meaningful numbers.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 18, 2026 05:53 PM (hxd26)

71 You can't fix stupid.

I heard that once, or maybe twice.

California voters can't be fixed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 18, 2026 05:54 PM (pQD4/)

72 And if it's for cougars, shouldn't there be teenage boys on the top?
Posted by: Eeyore

Is this in LA or San Francisco?

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 18, 2026 05:54 PM (fcDpY)

73 There are these kind of bridges all over the place, they just don't usually cost this much and are done faster, heh.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 05:54 PM (PYyV9)

74 >>I think the overall concept is a great idea, and, in a sane world, easily done. In fact, someone should have thought of this a long time ago.

They have. Also thought of putting wildlife tunnels under bridges.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 18, 2026 05:54 PM (viF8m)

75 This is what happens when you put crazy in charge.

Never fund crazy.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (EXyHK)

76 A wildlife bridge in L.A.? What's it for, raccoons and rats?

Posted by: wth at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (UjdFS)

77 California should just bury all highways underground.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (+nEug)

78 Can you imagine an infrastructure project on the scale of the current L.A. freeway system being undertaken by todays CA leadership? I'm surprised that they can even maintain it.
Posted by: Halfhand at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (iymdz)

they can't.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (8avO+)

79 Obviously this is a waste of money, but how do you even get the wildlife to use the bridge?
Posted by: Methos at March 18, 2026 05:41 PM (vSvIl)

HR will hold mandatory training sessions for the wildlife. But first, they'll need a budget for "Train-the-Trainer" sessions for getting bona fide, qualified, certified trainers.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (wVcYX)

80 It's grift all the way down.

Posted by: steevy at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (YwEeS)

81 This would be worth it if one cougar would maul this thieving bitch right at the entrance of Critter Creek Bridge live on KTLA

Posted by: UGAdawg at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (fz2G5)

82 There are thousands of these things in the mountains, some bridges, get this, even go under the highway.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (n5tGW)

83 Every big budget project is grift to environmental groups, lawyers. Unions, land agents

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2026 05:56 PM (Ia/+0)

84 I'll bet all my quatloos that few if any of the 'activists' put in charge of projects like this one and other environmental BS crap funded with tax dollars, could organize and manage a Cub Scout field trip to an ice cream shop. Assigning or hiring them to manage anything with a budget and schedule is imbecilic.

Posted by: Gref at March 18, 2026 05:56 PM (5rh/l)

85 77 California should just bury all highways underground.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (+nEug)

There you go. Then we just wait for the earthquake to solve all the problems.

Posted by: No Name Today at March 18, 2026 05:56 PM (8mulE)

86 Houston did something like this in like less than 2 years.

And to my eye, it looks like the Houston span was roughly the same as this one.

But I like how CA did the last part first, the center.

But that they also landscaped it.
Before the sides were done.
With no way to access it or maintain it or water it.
But, it's the paths that do it for me--how else are the animals going to know where to walk?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 18, 2026 05:56 PM (HXT0k)

87 What happens when the predatory animals figure out if they just lie in wait at either end of the bridge, a veritable buffet will walk right in for the taking?

And who is going to "maintain" this bridge once it is fully built?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 18, 2026 05:56 PM (S7WXb)

88 California has pedestrian bridges over the freeways in about 210,000 spots. They could have just built a double-wide and left out the dirt....or will their little feetsies get hot?

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at March 18, 2026 05:57 PM (xaNfJ)

89 They have. Also thought of putting wildlife tunnels under bridges.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 18, 2026 05:54 PM (viF8m)

In Wyoming there are a lot of 72" and 84" culverts that allow cattle to pass beneath from one grazing area to another.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 18, 2026 05:57 PM (0aYVJ)

90 A wildlife bridge in L.A.? What's it for, raccoons and rats?
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (UjdFS)

I drive on that highway a lot.

Cougars live in those hills even today. Lots of unusable back country. There is an Indian Museum within walking distance of my house at the base of a steep ridge. Guy their said the day I visited a mountain lion took down a deer at the place a few days before.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 05:57 PM (8avO+)

91
A contracted soil scientist said his process involves assessing local dirt to "rebuild it ... as close to nature as possible."

How about you just pop on over to Home Depot, pick up however many 16-foot wide rolls of linoleum you'd need to cover the length of the entire span and then roll them out in a single afternoon? And bring along some of your preferred workforce members from the parking lot when you do so.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 05:57 PM (xG4kz)

92 Based upon observation, not all cougars wear sweaters.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 18, 2026 05:58 PM (0sNs1)

93 This bridge was always pure grift and handouts to leftwing activists and special interests. I don’t think the concept of animal bridge even makes sense. The animals cross wherever they want to cross. It’s not like they are gonna follow signs to a bridge.

eh, animals learn to follow trails to water and and such. they'll eventually make a trail to the bridge, which will be a safer area than the highway.
Posted by: ace at March 18, 2026 05:44 PM (1wjle)
—-

Within reasonable geographic distances, yes. But we’re talking about a huge highway and one bridge.

Some predators are smarter and might figure it out, although with predators on the bridge the prey animals will avoid it like the plague. Which will be a huge problem: if the paths become a game trail — which they will, because predators are smart — then the prey animals will avoid the path and cross into traffic.

So yes, I agree with you in theory, but I think in practice even a fully functions bridge — untainted by the smelly slimy taint of CA commie smegma — won’t save wildlife in any meaningful numbers.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 18, 2026 05:53 PM

There will be signs posted - No Predatory Actions Within 100ft"

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 18, 2026 05:58 PM (wVcYX)

94 But, it's the paths that do it for me--how else are the animals going to know where to walk?

Yeah I am baffled that they felt they had to landscape it like a back yard. That's several hundred thou right there for no purpose at all. All it needs is dirt.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 05:58 PM (PYyV9)

95 If the government does it it's not stealing. It's cost overruns. Suck it, dweebs!

I hate to say it but there needs to be lawyers involved in these deals between government and the people involved. Whether the people are charities or taxpayers. You can't trust the government to do the right thing.

Posted by: Case at March 18, 2026 05:58 PM (pvf3X)

96 >>Within reasonable geographic distances, yes. But we’re talking about a huge highway and one bridge.

In many areas where wildlife is common, particularly car killing wildlife like deer, fencing is used to funnel animals to crossings or block them. Can't always see it from the road because it's often hidden but it's not uncommon.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 18, 2026 05:58 PM (viF8m)

97 Early contender for the bridge name is Cesar Chavez Wildlife and Rape Bridge.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 05:59 PM (n5tGW)

98 This seems like a waste on a pratical level, and more about the people supporting it.

Here's a freakin clue. Quit anthropomorphizing skunks, possums, and squirrels. They're dumber than AOC, and aren't inclined to see a grass bridge as something useful.

Hell, ever see a guinea hen (quite possibly the dumbest animals on the planet)....they'll stand in the middle of the road trying to see if the car that's about to flatten them is a Ford or a Chevy.

Posted by: Orson at March 18, 2026 05:59 PM (dIske)

99 82 There are thousands of these things in the mountains, some bridges, get this, even go under the highway.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 05:55 PM (n5tGW)

I've been watching a lot of horror movies. You don't want to go under the highway.

Great news! From ew.
We have a reason to go to the movie theaters again!

"Jane Fonda to star in movie adaptation of Virginia Evans' best-seller The Correspondent

The "Book Club" star will lead the film as a retired lawyer with a penchant for writing letters."

Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 05:59 PM (Sco7b)

100 I guess another David Toad Tunnel was a poor idea.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 18, 2026 06:00 PM (YlWIZ)

101 Beth Pratt, if you're going to cosplay as a construction worker, pro tip: do not waer your hardhat like that. Because that's retarded.

Posted by: Delurker at March 18, 2026 06:00 PM (gtcuf)

102 Hell, ever see a guinea hen (quite possibly the dumbest animals on the planet)....they'll stand in the middle of the road trying to see if the car that's about to flatten them is a Ford or a Chevy.

Yeah but they look good doing it

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:00 PM (PYyV9)

103 And to my eye, it looks like the Houston span was roughly the same as this one.

But I like how CA did the last part first, the center.

But that they also landscaped it.
Before the sides were done.
With no way to access it or maintain it or water it.
But, it's the paths that do it for me--how else are the animals going to know where to walk?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 18, 2026 05:56 PM (HXT0k)

Coyote packs follow the interstate routes down when seasonally moving inland or to the coast. Some nights I can hear them howling or yelping right outside my back wall. Kill lots of little dogs and such.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:00 PM (8avO+)

104 How in the world do people think up the crazy shit?

Posted by: four seasons at March 18, 2026 05:38 PM (3ek7K)

There's a Somali blogger who does "Ways to Scam the American People Out of Money".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)

105 Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because Gav built him a wildlife bridge.

Posted by: wth at March 18, 2026 06:00 PM (UjdFS)

106
Beth Pratt is the type of person that folks in a wagon train would agree to leave behind by arising at 2:00 AM, quickly and silently packing up and hitching up, and then pulling out, leaving her to fend for her incompetent self as the Native Americans come on by around about dawn for predation day.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:01 PM (xG4kz)

107 California voters can't be fixed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 18, 2026 05:54 PM

It's not that they can't be fixed, it's that I can't do them all by myself.

Posted by: Ben Had's Kitchen Table at March 18, 2026 06:01 PM (0sNs1)

108 Why don't they build them somewhere else, where the poor creatures can cross more safely?

Posted by: Eeyore at March 18, 2026 06:01 PM (AlhUl)

109 Looks like Steve Hilton could be the next governor of California, and with their retarded electoral runoff system the two candidates may both be Republicans (the other being sheriff whatshisface).

Karma

Posted by: Vengeance at March 18, 2026 06:01 PM (Cuw0G)

110 Animal bridges do seem to work.

https://tinyurl.com/mw54wvt8

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 06:02 PM (IBsfd)

111 What the actual fuck is this?

Posted by: Zombie General Leslie Groves, Pentagon Builder, Manhattan Project at March 18, 2026 06:02 PM (wVcYX)

112 Coyote packs follow the interstate routes down when seasonally moving inland or to the coast. Some nights I can hear them howling or yelping right outside my back wall.

My cousin and her husband have a little farm in Nebraska, they have two HUGE fluffy dogs that live outside. They are big and derpy and friendly but if a coyote shows up they turn into predator berserkers. Saves the chickens and turkeys and other critters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:02 PM (PYyV9)

113 Get your car a 'roo guard.

Posted by: Crocodile Dundee at March 18, 2026 06:03 PM (UjdFS)

114
"for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."

I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.
Posted by: fd

For as much as they pull numbers out of their asses, it is no wonder that leftists are such huge fans of butt sex.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:03 PM (xG4kz)

115 We did a wildlife overcrossing in WA state over I-90. It took theee years ( completed in 2016) and cost 6.2 million dollars.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 18, 2026 06:03 PM (W2Pud)

116 someone I know well works for CalTrans...... this bridge, as was noted Ace's comments, spans across10 lanes of the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles...... as a result...... the bridge has to be built to FHWA and AASHTO bridge standards regardless that it only holds dirt and is only going to be used by animals. ie, it has to be built to FEDERAL standards as it crosses over a HIGHWAY. All bridges are subject to Federal guidelines and rules. That is how you get a $100M bridge for skunks and deer.

Posted by: Monica at March 18, 2026 06:03 PM (u0JHI)

117 Since it's California, will they be charging tolls?

Posted by: Eeyore at March 18, 2026 06:04 PM (AlhUl)

118 My cousin and her husband have a little farm in Nebraska, they have two HUGE fluffy dogs that live outside. They are big and derpy and friendly but if a coyote shows up they turn into predator berserkers. Saves the chickens and turkeys and other critters.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Probably Great Pyrenees. Killer dog.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 06:04 PM (IBsfd)

119 The first real "wildlife bridge" was in NJ, Down by Newark. Or Elizabeth.

It was a hangover from the effort to end the interstate highway program. It may not have been Newark, maybe Secaucus -- some smelly city SW on NYC. Can you imagine what kind of wildlife we are talking about there?

The bridge was completed in the 80s. That meant they could finish the highway below, which was thwarted from crossing some refuge for rats and hobos.

So there was an attack, parry, counterthrust, ... going on. Left said "Sorry, can't build there!" and finally the sane people said "OK, we make bridge for your fucking rats."

Now CA says "Fine, make a bridge, but first you will blow me (and pay me $100 million dollars.")

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 18, 2026 06:04 PM (uBTab)

120 Coyote packs follow the interstate routes down when seasonally moving inland or to the coast. Some nights I can hear them howling or yelping right outside my back wall.

My cousin and her husband have a little farm in Nebraska, they have two HUGE fluffy dogs that live outside. They are big and derpy and friendly but if a coyote shows up they turn into predator berserkers. Saves the chickens and turkeys and other critters.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:02 PM (PYyV9)

doesn't work for a 4 pound lapdog nearly as well. Or one of my cats that could not always be kept inside.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:04 PM (8avO+)

121 Fearless prediction: The bridge will increase wildlife vehicle accidents because they will follow the game trail but balk at going up an artificial hill when they can just walk across the road.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2026 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)

122 I had a neighbor who bought a bunch of Guinea Hens becuase the keep the trick population down. The foxes were looking at each other like “dis we doe and go to heaven?”.

Posted by: Vengeance at March 18, 2026 06:04 PM (Cuw0G)

123 IIRC, Clarkson and company covered this some years back. In two years, something like 3 squirrels used a bridge...

Posted by: man at March 18, 2026 06:05 PM (XuXeR)

124
She trained with ManBearPig in his Climate Reality Leadership Corps! Serious, you guys!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:05 PM (xG4kz)

125 I recall driving from Colorado to Montana in the late winter, and seeing dozens of bald eagles feasting on roadkill.

Bald eagles are one step up from turkey vultures, in reality.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 18, 2026 06:05 PM (0aYVJ)

126 Can't they just offer a shuttle bus service for the critters?

Posted by: fd at March 18, 2026 06:05 PM (vFG9F)

127 I'm familiar with that area. Just up the road from this bridge is the Liberty Canyon underpass which is a known pathway for wildlife to cross. Which leads them into an open space. So there was really no need for this boondoggle. Also, just up the road from me are deer jumping ramps along the 101 in Santa Margarita. The ramps are just giant piles of dirt to the height of the fences along the 101 so that if deer come onto the highway, they can go up the dirt ramps to get over the fence.

Posted by: beckster at March 18, 2026 06:05 PM (I7J98)

128 Now CA says "Fine, make a bridge, but first you will blow me (and pay me $100 million dollars.")
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 18, 2026 06:04 PM (uBTab)

The highway below has been finished for decades, this bridge is a complete idiocy. It isn't even near the bike and hiking trails about the county.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:06 PM (8avO+)

129 Judge Boesberg has just ordered Trump to complete the bridge and reimburse California for what it had spent, finding the National Highway Safety Act and the Administrative Procedures Act required the federal government to pay for the bridge.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 18, 2026 06:06 PM (HXT0k)

130 I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.
Posted by: fd

So 13,000 fewer future Minnesotans robbing us of untold gazillions? Dammit, now I'm in favor of wildlife crossings.

Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 18, 2026 06:06 PM (mL35S)

131 I bet you could just put a big metal pipe across the highway and the critters would use it. Because nature always finds a way.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 06:06 PM (n5tGW)

132 Three squirrels walk onto a bridge...

Posted by: Delurker at March 18, 2026 06:06 PM (gtcuf)

133 Since it's California, will they be charging tolls?
Posted by: Eeyore at March 18, 2026 06:04 PM (AlhUl)

Somebody's got to go back and get a shitload of dimes!

Posted by: Taggart, the Alpha deer at March 18, 2026 06:06 PM (wVcYX)

134 They should have tunneled under the highway.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (oob1u)

135
I had a neighbor who bought a bunch of Guinea Hens becuase the keep the trick population down...

Do you know to what part of town the tricks migrated? MLK Boulevard, perhaps?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (xG4kz)

136 Hell, ever see a guinea hen (quite possibly the dumbest animals on the planet)....they'll stand in the middle of the road trying to see if the car that's about to flatten them is a Ford or a Chevy.

Do they were hajibs? Because we have the same animal here in NOVA but they wear hajibs.

Posted by: dagny at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (ILGo9)

137 Great news! From ew.
We have a reason to go to the movie theaters again!

"Jane Fonda to star in movie adaptation of Virginia Evans' best-seller The Correspondent

The "Book Club" star will lead the film as a retired lawyer with a penchant for writing letters."

Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 05:59 PM (Sco7b)

Who the fuck are they making that movie for?

How is that boring shit even a book?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (XCUp7)

138 Animal bridges do seem to work."

No. Elevated highways, yes.

Posted by: man at March 18, 2026 06:08 PM (XuXeR)

139 The highway below has been finished for decades, this bridge is a complete idiocy. It isn't even near the bike and hiking trails about the county.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yes, I know. I was making a point. Highways can only exist if the cost of building them is extreme and not worth the effort.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 18, 2026 06:09 PM (uBTab)

140 I can make up stuff too. For every wildlife crossing, 13,000 children starve to death in Somalia.

Quick! Give me 1000 bridges!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 06:09 PM (IBsfd)

141 There's a Disney movie in there with animals singing "We're on the bridge to nowhere ..."

Posted by: ShainS at March 18, 2026 06:09 PM (67sdn)

142 They should have tunneled under the highway.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (oob1u)
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Not expensive enough. We're getting paid percentages, not flat fees.

Posted by: Otherwise unemployable liberal "experts" at March 18, 2026 06:09 PM (ZOv7s)

143 Who knew communist whores liked letter writing.

Posted by: dagny at March 18, 2026 06:09 PM (ILGo9)

144 someone I know well works for CalTrans...... this bridge, as was noted Ace's comments, spans across10 lanes of the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles...... as a result...... the bridge has to be built to FHWA and AASHTO bridge standards regardless that it only holds dirt and is only going to be used by animals. ie, it has to be built to FEDERAL standards as it crosses over a HIGHWAY. All bridges are subject to Federal guidelines and rules. That is how you get a $100M bridge for skunks and deer.
Posted by: Monica at March 18, 2026 06:03 PM (u0JHI)

Well that is how you get an expensive bridge, since this is earthquake country and you want to put enough dirt on it to make it a hazard if it collapses.

Taking years to make it with only a few random starts and stop periods is how it gets to 100M.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:10 PM (8avO+)

145 What about the roadkill? You expect me to hunt for food?

Posted by: Unhoused Person at March 18, 2026 06:10 PM (UjdFS)

146 Bald eagles are one step up from turkey vultures, in reality.

Big raptors are nearly all primarily carrion birds. They'll hunt too but I mean a dead deer is a heck of a lot easier to eat than catching a salmon or a rabbit.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:10 PM (PYyV9)

147
The "Book Club" star will lead the film as a retired lawyer with a penchant for writing letters."

With her character do a dive off a swimming raft to overcome her Daddy issues, like she did in "On Golden Pond"?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:10 PM (xG4kz)

148 Jane Fonda to star"

Didn't she get an dementia diagnosis?

Posted by: man at March 18, 2026 06:10 PM (XuXeR)

149 There's a Disney movie in there with animals singing "We're on the bridge to nowhere ..."
Posted by: ShainS at March 18, 2026 06:09 PM (67sdn)
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AKSHUALLY, "Bambi" is a documentary film!

Posted by: Otherwise unemployable liberal at March 18, 2026 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)

150 I'm going to guess with the next funding they will complete only one ramp up. It'll be a deer suicide bridge.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 18, 2026 06:11 PM (n5tGW)

151 A movie about an old lady who writes letters?

What a thrill. What excitement. People will be beating down the theater doors to get into that one.

Posted by: Delurker at March 18, 2026 06:11 PM (gtcuf)

152 Quick! Give me 1000 bridges!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 06:09 PM (IBsfd)
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Endorsed! I need a new Subaru.

Posted by: Otherwise unemployable liberal at March 18, 2026 06:12 PM (ZOv7s)

153 Posted by: Monica at March 18, 2026 06:03 PM (u0JHI)
__________________

Just wait. 30 years from now when it is finally completed, the Democrat state Legislature will approve tolls from animals for its use.

Posted by: Orson at March 18, 2026 06:12 PM (dIske)

154
someone I know well works for CalTrans...... this bridge, as was noted Ace's comments, spans across10 lanes of the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles...... as a result...... the bridge has to be built to FHWA and AASHTO bridge standards regardless that it only holds dirt and is only going to be used by animals. ie, it has to be built to FEDERAL standards as it crosses over a HIGHWAY. All bridges are subject to Federal guidelines and rules. That is how you get a $100M bridge for skunks and deer.
Posted by: Monica

Did they contract the job out to that all-gals, all-the-time firm in Broward County, FL that built the Pancaking Pedestrian Bridge?

'Cause they ought to have done so!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:12 PM (xG4kz)

155 Who the fuck are they making that movie for?

How is that boring shit even a book?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (XCUp7)

I've seen some funny short stories consisting of just pretend letters/telegrams. A Civil War history book "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" is just articles from a newspaper over the decades with responses from other civil war generals in rebuttal/support. Think 4 volumes of Ace of Spades from the 1890s.

But a movie is right out.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:13 PM (8avO+)

156 Can't they just offer a shuttle bus service for the critters?
Posted by: fd
.......

Or at least put up and down escalators at each end?
Some of these critters may not be in the best of shape.

Posted by: wth at March 18, 2026 06:13 PM (UjdFS)

157 Ok, California.

There is one woman who can finish that bridge, stampede cattle across it, and then beat the cishet leprechaun patriarchy until they cough up enough gold for all of you to staff your Pacific Highway mansions with an army of newcomers of color, and never pay a cent.

And her name is Katie.

All Power To Porter!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 18, 2026 06:13 PM (BI5O2)

158 Seriously. Musk could have bored under the highway for 1/4 the cost . Animals prefer to go downhill than uphill.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (oob1u)

159 Also, the bridge was built specifically for mountain lions. Note that it's been documented that there are only a couple dozen mountain lions living in that area.

From a commenter on the story in the NYP:
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It is well documented that the mountain lions used the Liberty Canyon underpass along with many other animals. Mountain lions & their tracks have been observed at the Calabasas landfill property for decades. Liberty Canyon leads directly to the edge of the landfill & into the Chesebro open space. Mountain lions do not need a $100mil bridge.

Posted by: beckster at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (I7J98)

160 My brother designed a lot of the California highways in the 60's and 70's. I can only imagine what his reaction to this would be.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (+nEug)

161 Just wait. 30 years from now when it is finally completed, the Democrat state Legislature will approve tolls from animals for its use"

Somebody needs to go back and get a shitload of dimes...

Posted by: man at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (XuXeR)

162 Why can't we build gently-sloping pedestrian bridges, topped with grass and bushes, for wildlife to cross over safely?

—

The Canucks did this in Banff on the TransCanada highway. It’s pretty cool.

Posted by: Heroq at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (RD49f)

163 A movie about an old lady who writes letters?

What a thrill. What excitement. People will be beating down the theater doors to get into that one.

Posted by: Delurker at March 18, 2026 06:11 PM (gtcuf)

Directed by Michael Bay?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 18, 2026 06:15 PM (wVcYX)

164 A movie about an old lady who writes letters?

What a thrill. What excitement. People will be beating down the theater doors to get into that one.

Posted by: Delurker at March 18, 2026 06:11 PM (gtcuf)
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Stupid. Now if she wrote cozy mystery novels...

Posted by: Murder, She Wrote at March 18, 2026 06:15 PM (ZOv7s)

165 Bald eagles are one step up from turkey vultures, in reality.

Big raptors are nearly all primarily carrion birds. They'll hunt too but I mean a dead deer is a heck of a lot easier to eat than catching a salmon or a rabbit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:10 PM (PYyV9)

Pretty much all predators will eat someone else food if they can get them to leave it. Once in a restaurant I went to the bathroom and 4 yuppies and their dates were all eating my food at the table in Chicago.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:15 PM (8avO+)

166
Where else could that woman, with no discernable skills, much less any discernable common sense, find employment but with gubmint?

In a nutshell, there is our problem.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:15 PM (xG4kz)

167 Should have went under.

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 18, 2026 06:15 PM (cS1cw)

168 The old lady better be writing letters to a whole lot of people of color and queer folx, or it'll never win an Oscar.

Posted by: Delurker at March 18, 2026 06:16 PM (gtcuf)

169 Who the fuck are they making that movie for?

How is that boring shit even a book?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (XCUp7)

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The Viet Cong?

Posted by: ShainS at March 18, 2026 06:16 PM (gD8L/)

170 Liberty Canyon underpass "

Not bridge...

Posted by: man at March 18, 2026 06:16 PM (XuXeR)

171 My brother designed a lot of the California highways in the 60's and 70's. I can only imagine what his reaction to this would be.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (+nEug)

uh oh, I have a lot of built up rage over this subject...

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:16 PM (8avO+)

172 Yes, Yes. Brilliant design, we say!
Finish the bridge!

Posted by: Hungry Pack of Coyotes at March 18, 2026 06:16 PM (DsA2n)

173 It is well documented that the mountain lions used the Liberty Canyon underpass along with many other animals.

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At least some of California's homicidal predatory animals are documented.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 18, 2026 06:16 PM (BI5O2)

174
I foresee that bridge, filled from stem to stern with "romantic homeless people", and reeking to high heaven of feces and piss, within a year of it being opened.

Count on it.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:17 PM (xG4kz)

175 I've seen some funny short stories consisting of just pretend letters/telegrams. A Civil War history book "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" is just articles from a newspaper over the decades with responses from other civil war generals in rebuttal/support. Think 4 volumes of Ace of Spades from the 1890s.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:13 PM (8avO+)
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Some of those discussions got quite heated, such as Longstreet's critique of Lee at Gettysburg. If they'd had a comment thread, Ace would have been wielding the Banhammer like Aragorn going through orcs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2026 06:18 PM (ZOv7s)

176 I hope they put a drinking fountain in the middle. All that walking is thirsty work.

Posted by: wth at March 18, 2026 06:18 PM (UjdFS)

177 West of Loveland CO there is a store that specializes in cherry jellies and such. A few years ago, a black bear casually pushed in the plate glass window and proceeded to feast for hours.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 18, 2026 06:18 PM (0aYVJ)

178 Couldn't they have just put a culvert under the highway?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 18, 2026 06:18 PM (4NO2D)

179 Nuke all the gay butterflies!

Posted by: Manly Man at March 18, 2026 06:18 PM (oftw2)

180 I went to the bathroom and 4 yuppies and their dates were all eating my food at the table in Chicago.

Yuppies man, what can you do?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:18 PM (PYyV9)

181 Three squirrels walk onto a bridge, and the bridge says: Hey, are those nuts in your mouths?

And the squirrels say: yoo begth yerr ash tay rrr.

Posted by: Delurker at March 18, 2026 06:19 PM (gtcuf)

182 ""Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation" for the bridge that bears the late philanthropist's name."

iirc, Annenberg was a (Chicago?) conservative, but his wife (or whomever) took over and turned it Full Commie (as is their nature). I'm thinking Bill Ayers was involved.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 18, 2026 06:19 PM (vbXSk)

183 The ones in banff are every mile or so I think. There are also really tall fences on the side of the highway to keep the critters from getting on the highway. There are a ton of elk and deer bears you name it around there. From a safety standpoint t it is a good idea, that must prevent a lot of car vs animal collisions.

Posted by: Heroq at March 18, 2026 06:19 PM (RD49f)

184 Well, a government filled with left-wing fuck-up grifters is why."

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That about covers it.

Other states do this quickly with no problems. California is fucktarded.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 18, 2026 06:19 PM (NtVYv)

185 134 They should have tunneled under the highway.

and there could be automated shuttles to whisk them from one side to the other at supersonic speeds in an evacuated passage.

Posted by: the boring company at March 18, 2026 06:20 PM (v3pYe)

186 "I went to the bathroom and 4 yuppies and their dates were all eating my food at the table in Chicago."

Snap 7 necks and leave a survivor to tell the others.

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 18, 2026 06:20 PM (cS1cw)

187 Well, it ain't my money...

(Or is it!?!?!??)

Posted by: LASue at March 18, 2026 06:20 PM (lCppi)

188 "Jane Fonda to star in movie adaptation of Virginia Evans' best-seller The Correspondent

The "Book Club" star will lead the film as a retired lawyer with a penchant for writing letters."

Posted by: Stateless

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I just saw a Jane Fonda movie on youtube. Walk on the Wild Side. She played a whore.
She was very very hot, and very very annoying even early on. Intolerably annoying in voice and gesture.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 18, 2026 06:21 PM (uBTab)

189 Willow'd -- of course, I should've guessed, putting actual research in...

>> 91 Just reading through the day’s posts. Amyl Nitrite Is something gay right? Wiki says it has a psychoactive effect and causes a relaxation of the external anal sphincter.
Posted by: banana Dream - sounds pretty gay at March 18, 2026 04:59 PM (z7/Fg)

Now it is a gay party drug called "poppers," but it was apparently a rock & roll thing back in the day. Well, they said "amyl nitrate" at the time, but now Brave AI says that it is "unsafe" for human consumption and should absolutely not be confused with the recreational drug "amyl nitrite," so what am I to believe? Maybe they meant what they said, and they were in fact doing the "harmful" one they said they were doing.

See for example Anita Pallenberg, who introduced the Rolling Stones to amyl nitrate in 1965, and Richard "Didymus" Washington, who played marimbas on "Sweet Black Angel" but was originally listed as Amyl Nitrate in the credits of their 1972 album Exile on Main St.

"How Anita Pallenberg Transformed the Rolling Stones From ‘Schoolboys’ to Stars"
https://tinyurl.com/24vx7ye5

"The story behind the song"
https://tinyurl.com/3xcnyc82

Posted by: SciVo at March 18, 2026 06:21 PM (Sy6m/)

190
I hope they put a drinking fountain in the middle. All that walking is thirsty work.
Posted by: wth

That will cease working within its first month.

Then there will be human turds in it before the next month is out.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:21 PM (xG4kz)

191 I foresee that bridge, filled from stem to stern with "romantic homeless people", and reeking to high heaven of feces and piss, within a year of it being opened.

Count on it.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:17 PM (xG4kz)
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Nice breeze up there, start piling your box shack up against the nice tall outer wall. Take a dump and then fling it onto the road.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2026 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)

192 We in Brattlebora would like to march in harmony acroos that bridge with are furry and featherd friends like Kamala Hariis did at Sellma and Geteysberg.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro Vermouth at March 18, 2026 06:21 PM (vFG9F)

193 Next up: Killer bobcats attacking unsuspecting sunbathers in Malibu.

Posted by: LASue at March 18, 2026 06:22 PM (lCppi)

194 Why can't we build gently-sloping pedestrian bridges, topped with grass and bushes, for wildlife to cross over safely?

—

The Canucks did this in Banff on the TransCanada highway. It’s pretty cool.
Posted by: Heroq at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (RD49f)

Houston did this at Memorial Park.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:22 PM (oob1u)

195 Will they have a guard at the end asking the animals "What's your favorite color?"

Posted by: wth at March 18, 2026 06:22 PM (UjdFS)

196 171 uh oh, I have a lot of built up rage over this subject...

it's funny because the subject is built-up range

Posted by: anachronda at March 18, 2026 06:22 PM (v3pYe)

197 Couldn't they have just put a culvert under the highway?
Posted by: toby928(c)

I think they realize it would become hobo central, a fire would break out, and the freeway would be out of commission for months to fix it. Don't think it wouldn't have cost just as much though.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 18, 2026 06:22 PM (diia5)

198 Well, it ain't my money...

(Or is it!?!?!??)"

$39 trillion dollars in debt....

Posted by: man at March 18, 2026 06:23 PM (XuXeR)

199 Next up: Killer bobcats attacking unsuspecting sunbathers in Malibu.

I mean, the bridge dumps them directly next to a housing development LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:23 PM (PYyV9)

200 "I went to the bathroom and 4 yuppies and their dates were all eating my food at the table in Chicago"

"Yeah, you've got hippies, we need to fumigate"

Cartman

Posted by: illiniwek at March 18, 2026 06:23 PM (vbXSk)

201 I just saw a Jane Fonda movie on youtube. Walk on the Wild Side. She played a whore.
She was very very hot, and very very annoying even early on. Intolerably annoying in voice and gesture.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 18, 2026 06:21 PM (uBTab)
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"Barbarella" was her best work.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2026 06:23 PM (ZOv7s)

202 Golf carts and Lime Scooters for all the disabled migrating critters. It's called equity.

Posted by: Up On Cripple Creek at March 18, 2026 06:23 PM (oftw2)

203 Is the bridge designed to accommodate rising sea levels?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (8AONa)

204 Nice breeze up there, start piling your box shack up against the nice tall outer wall. Take a dump and then fling it onto the road.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2026 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)

An adult, real-life "King of the Hill," complete with buckets of hot urine and feces dumped on the heads of the invaders below.

Posted by: LASue at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (lCppi)

205
Hell, ever see a guinea hen (quite possibly the dumbest animals on the planet)....they'll stand in the middle of the road trying to see if the car that's about to flatten them is a Ford or a Chevy.
Posted by: Orson

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This is a common misunderstanding. Prey species often have eyes built for defense - they have limited stereo vision and so it is not centered in the eye. That means it has poor resolution. For best resolution, they look with one eye off to side, that is why birds often look at you sideways to see if you are a threat. Problem is that fast moving things only seem to slowly get larger and they do not do well at detecting motion.

If you have good stereo vision, with eyes close together pointing in same direction, you can see the item and see it moving. The tradeoff is limited field of view. Pheasants, deer, etc. will stand in road and stare at oncoming vehicle with one eye. They think standing still makes them harder to see, and while staring to see if it moves, they can not detect it moving straight in. It's not stupidity, it is eyes poorly suited to the threat

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (uBTab)

206 Also, the bridge was built specifically for mountain lions. Note that it's been documented that there are only a couple dozen mountain lions living in that area.

From a commenter on the story in the NYP:
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It is well documented that the mountain lions used the Liberty Canyon underpass along with many other animals. Mountain lions & their tracks have been observed at the Calabasas landfill property for decades. Liberty Canyon leads directly to the edge of the landfill & into the Chesebro open space. Mountain lions do not need a $100mil bridge.
Posted by: beckster at March 18, 2026 06:14 PM (I7J9

Lions need a huge territory. The young ones get driven out or killed by the older males. That area is already overpopulated, truthfully they shouldn't be there. There is not enough space for them, California is retarded. As a state Cal has way too many lions, they are constantly in the news eating someone or their pets.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (NtVYv)

207 Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side cartoons would have had a field day with this boondoggle. Imagine a deer family complete with mama deer with her cat-eye glasses, apron, and beehive hairdo tapping her hoof in disgust while waiting for this to be built.

Posted by: Cheri at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (oiNtH)

208
I worked one summer in the government-provided parks and recreation sector -- I know whereof I speak!

Cleaning public restrooms was a real eye-opener, I can tell you!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (xG4kz)

209 Houston did this at Memorial Park"

Tunnels and underpass...

Posted by: man at March 18, 2026 06:26 PM (XuXeR)

210 An adult, real-life "King of the Hill," complete with buckets of hot urine and feces dumped on the heads of the invaders below.
Posted by: LASue at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (lCppi)
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Gangs will take control of the causeways, shaking down the hobos for drugs and sex if they want to leave.

An elevated Chaz.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2026 06:26 PM (ZOv7s)

211 Is the bridge designed to accommodate rising sea levels?
Posted by: 2009Refugee
......

Another $10 million and I'll let you know next year.

Posted by: wth at March 18, 2026 06:26 PM (UjdFS)

212 The ones in banff are every mile or so I think. There are also really tall fences on the side of the highway to keep the critters from getting on the highway. There are a ton of elk and deer bears you name it around there. From a safety standpoint t it is a good idea, that must prevent a lot of car vs animal collisions.

Posted by: Heroq at March 18, 2026 06:19 PM (RD49f)

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In 2018 I had to fly into Bangor, Maine, rent a car in the early evening -- and drive as fast as I could overnight to Halifax Nova Scotia (funny, but long, story).

I was driving 85 MPH in the dark and terrified that if I hit a moose -- I would likely come through the windshield and I'd be dead. It was like a terrifying 10 hours ...

Only found out later that there were very tall chain link fences on both sides of the highways with tunnels underneath for the wildlife.

Posted by: ShainS at March 18, 2026 06:27 PM (gD8L/)

213 These government boondoggles are like Tom Hanks' "The Money Pit". Except the gov' fraud is 1000X worse, and the house/project never gets completed.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 18, 2026 06:27 PM (vbXSk)

214 Honestly he is vapid and drugged up enough he'd be another Biden; a platform for the leftists to use to get power and money.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

See, the thing about Newsom is he's the most dangerous politician since Clinton. Both are sociopaths, which means they'll look you in the eye and lie and their heartrate doesn't change a bit. They tell lies to plump themselves up with certain groups, they tell lies that laughably disprovable, but never backtrack (no propaganda outlet would ask). Newsom actually claimed he grew up poor eating mac and cheese on the hardscrabble mean streets of Marin county. He bones his best friends wife. His wife sets up a "charity" then plunders the donations. Plus he's stupid, just like all you black folks.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 18, 2026 06:27 PM (cxFcK)

215 So Jane was playing herself then

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2026 06:28 PM (Ia/+0)

216 .
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Remember that ice skating rink in NYC?
.
Why doesn't PotUSvsg hand a few tens of millions to his son to oversee the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers building a bridge THAT WORKS a few hundred yards from Newsom's Not-a-bridge?
.

Posted by: Marooned at March 18, 2026 06:28 PM (kt8QE)

217 Couldn't they have just put a culvert under the highway?
Posted by: toby928(c)

I think they realize it would become hobo central, a fire would break out, and the freeway would be out of commission for months to fix it. Don't think it wouldn't have cost just as much though.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 18, 2026 06:22 PM (diia5)

Think the highway is a bit cut into the hill already, and they probably thought digging under was not going to work well. The one uncomplete side there looks like not a lot of room for a gentle slope. But the hills are very steep anyway in the area.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:28 PM (8avO+)

218 Houston did this at Memorial Park"

Tunnels and underpass...
Posted by: man at March 18, 2026 06:26 PM (XuXeR)

The top is basically a grass pedestrian bridge.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:29 PM (oob1u)

219 Pretty much all predators will eat someone else food if they can get them to leave it.

*Lions have entered the chat

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 06:30 PM (IBsfd)

220 How long until pot is planted all along the bridge?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2026 06:30 PM (ZOv7s)

221 There's at least one that I remember (maybe more) over I11/US93 SE of Hoover Dam (visible on Google earth at 35.970846,-114.683385.
There's some really fancy ones in Banff and Jasper Parks in Canada.
Building wildlife overpasses (and underpasses) is not a new or unique idea, so bleeding edge that it requires special attention by political hacks.
Graft, pure and simple.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 18, 2026 06:30 PM (qiHcY)

222 See, the thing about Newsom is he's the most dangerous politician since Clinton. Both are sociopaths, which means they'll look you in the eye and lie and their heartrate doesn't change a bit. They tell lies to plump themselves up with certain groups, they tell lies that laughably disprovable, but never backtrack (no propaganda outlet would ask). Newsom actually claimed he grew up poor eating mac and cheese on the hardscrabble mean streets of Marin county. He bones his best friends wife. His wife sets up a "charity" then plunders the donations. Plus he's stupid, just like all you black folks.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 18, 2026 06:27 PM (cxFcK)

Bill is fairly smart and makes himself likable, Gavin is a dope and doesn't think he has to. I don't see him escaping the general 'not a Californian' bias in national elections.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:31 PM (8avO+)

223
Looks more like an ATV overpass for the local teenagers to pop the clutch on their dirt bikes to blast rooster tails of dirt and rocks over the edge during rush hour.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 18, 2026 06:31 PM (y9nCu)

224 Only found out later that there were very tall chain link fences on both sides of the highways with tunnels underneath for the wildlife.
Posted by: ShainS

I'll bet the return trip was a lot easier.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 06:32 PM (IBsfd)

225 Aw shaddup!

Posted by: Nav Gewsom at March 18, 2026 06:32 PM (UjdFS)

226 Cleaning public restrooms was a real eye-opener, I can tell you!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (xG4kz)

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I was surprised to learn here sometime in the past year or two from commenters who did that kind of work that the women's restrooms were generally always filthier than the men's.

Posted by: ShainS at March 18, 2026 06:32 PM (gD8L/)

227 See, the thing about Newsom is he's the most dangerous politician since Clinton. Both are sociopaths

Yes, but while Clinton is an intelligent sociopath, Newsome is genuinely stupid. He's charismatic, but dumb as dirt. Clinton's lies felt compelling, they seemed plausible, like the drunk's lies. Newsome's lies seem childish and idiotic, plainly false -- Kamala is the same way.

Clinton was compelling and lived his entire life to promote the lie. Newsome has been given a free lift his entire life and lies like Keanu Reeves playing Hamlet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:33 PM (PYyV9)

228 Its a boondoggle. Colorado, hardly a bastion of great financial stewardship buit an overpass over I-25 for 15 million.

from google AI. "The $15 million I-25 Greenland Wildlife Overpass in Douglas County, Colorado, completed in December 2025, is North America's largest wildlife overpass. Located near Larkspur between Castle Rock and Monument, this 209-by-200-foot bridge connects 39,000 acres of habitat across a busy interstate. It aims to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions by 90% and aids elk, pronghorn, bear, and deer migration.

I think that one cost extra after the fact because Polis didn't correctly purchase the private land for it, so a landowner sued and got some sum for their property that was used. But saying they can't build a wildlife overpass for only 100+ million is bullshit

Posted by: PaleRider at March 18, 2026 06:33 PM (WmE5l)

229 I understand you are critical of this bridge but the real cost is the signage. Multiple species will use this bridge and each must be informed of the proper usage and etiquette for the community of animals that will interact with the bridge.

Posted by: Chicago Vota at March 18, 2026 06:33 PM (baPXJ)

230 NBC is going to be covering Chavez! After they tell us what a disaster the war is....

Who the fuck are they making that movie for?

How is that boring shit even a book?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (XCUp7)

It'd be funny if it morphed into something using more bullets than 'The Devil's Rejects.'

Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 06:34 PM (Sco7b)

231 I'm watching the Star Trek episode Who Gods Destroy.

This is the prime example of the 10/10 on the Hot/Crazy matrix.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:34 PM (oob1u)

232 Is the bridge designed to accommodate rising sea levels?
Posted by: 2009Refugee
......

Another $10 million and I'll let you know next year.
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2026 06:26 PM (UjdFS)

I live pretty close to the area and my house is at a higher elevation above sea level than Ohio. It's about half hour to the coast maybe. But there is a range of 'mountains' between. A bit further south is the highest point in Ventura County.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:34 PM (8avO+)

233 I'm watching the Star Trek episode Who Gods Destroy.

This is the prime example of the 10/10 on the Hot/Crazy matrix.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:34 PM (oob1u)

"He is my lover, so I must kill him" she said reasonably.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:35 PM (8avO+)

234 Bill is fairly smart and makes himself likable, Gavin is a dope and doesn't think he has to. I don't see him escaping the general 'not a Californian' bias in national elections.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:31 PM (8avO+)
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He was highly intelligent, and that made him very dangerous. His formulations, evasions and dissembling was a form of art.

Newsome is doesn't even remember his last lie and has the wit of a wet sponge. Like Harris, an environment where he faces serious, sustained questioning would destroy him.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 18, 2026 06:36 PM (ZOv7s)

235 I was surprised to learn here sometime in the past year or two from commenters who did that kind of work that the women's restrooms were generally always filthier than the men's.

That was my experience. I do not think it is because women are inherently more filthy than men -- far from it -- it is that its not where they live or are regularly so they kinda go nuts "at last I don't have to pick up after myself!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:36 PM (PYyV9)

236 How is that boring shit even a book?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 18, 2026 06:07 PM (XCUp7)

It'd be funny if it morphed into something using more bullets than 'The Devil's Rejects.'
Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 06:34 PM (Sco7b)

"Inspired by...."

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:36 PM (8avO+)

237 Lions need a huge territory. The young ones get driven out or killed by the older males. That area is already overpopulated, truthfully they shouldn't be there. There is not enough space for them, California is retarded. As a state Cal has way too many lions, they are constantly in the news eating someone or their pets.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 18, 2026 06:24 PM (NtVYv)
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Yes, I'm north of LA, in the Paso Robles area and we have lots of goats killed by mountain lions. I'm not out in the country but 3 blocks from downtown and we have sightings here in my neighborhood.

Posted by: beckster at March 18, 2026 06:36 PM (I7J98)

238 California has pedestrian bridges over the freeways in about 210,000 spots. They could have just built a double-wide and left out the dirt....or will their little feetsies get hot?
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers
——

A guy hauling heavy equipment didn’t read the sign and took out a pedestrian freeway bridge by our house. It was a steel one. They replaced it with a concrete one with special corn lights and all the bells and whistles. I think it only cost $20 million and took 3 years to build. I bet the steel one cost less that $100K.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 18, 2026 06:36 PM (xvV+O)

239 229 I understand you are critical of this bridge but the real cost is the signage. Multiple species will use this bridge and each must be informed of the proper usage and etiquette for the community of animals that will interact with the bridge.
Posted by: Chicago Vota at March 18, 2026 06:33 PM (baPXJ)

How much is it going to cost to teach the animals to read?

Or to translate signs into all of the different animal languages/dialects?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 18, 2026 06:37 PM (S7WXb)

240
[O/T -- Variety:] "Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI to Star in ‘As Deep as the Grave’ Movie — First Look (EXCLUSIVE)"

https://is.gd/wVWnmC

Posted by: ShainS at March 18, 2026 06:37 PM (gD8L/)

241 "Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI to Star in ‘As Deep as the Grave’ Movie — First Look (EXCLUSIVE)"

people who necromance people for movies need to be burned at the stake like the old days

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:39 PM (PYyV9)

242 "He is my lover, so I must kill him" she said reasonably.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:35 PM (8avO+)

Hah. She said that almost at the same time you posted.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:39 PM (oob1u)

243 I was surprised to learn here sometime in the past year or two from commenters who did that kind of work that the women's restrooms were generally always filthier than the men's.

That was my experience. I do not think it is because women are inherently more filthy than men -- far from it -- it is that its not where they live or are regularly so they kinda go nuts "at last I don't have to pick up after myself!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:36 PM (PYyV9)

I'm still scarred from nearly 50 years ago experience but they don't help the situation by not having LARGE garbage cans in there instead of something tiny and thin in the stalls.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:39 PM (8avO+)

244 She blowed up real good.

Posted by: LORD Garth at March 18, 2026 06:40 PM (vFG9F)

245
Only found out later that there were very tall chain link fences on both sides of the highways with tunnels underneath for the wildlife.
Posted by: ShainS

We used to pull guard duty at the post ammo storage dump in Alaska. The moose had been moved out and 12-15 foot chainlink fences surrounded the mountain, with the closed and 24/7 guarded gate being the only access. The moose still got in, probably by jumping the fence.

Rumors that us infantry guards would chase the moose through the snow in GSA pickup trucks while screaming at the stupid ungulates are lies. Lies, I tell you.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 18, 2026 06:40 PM (y9nCu)

246 "He is my lover, so I must kill him" she said reasonably.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:35 PM (8avO+)

Hah. She said that almost at the same time you posted.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 18, 2026 06:39 PM (oob1u)

I do enjoy your trek posts a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:41 PM (8avO+)

247 they don't help the situation by not having LARGE garbage cans in there instead of something tiny and thin in the stalls.

Yeah one place I worked lined them with a paper lunchbag. It was... insufficient

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 18, 2026 06:42 PM (PYyV9)

248 Oh the orion girl yep

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 18, 2026 06:43 PM (bXbFr)

249 Meanwhile gas here is $5.89 a gallon..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2026 06:43 PM (VE6XX)

250 I'm disappointed PlutoTV doesn't have DS9.

In a lot of ways, that was an amazing series.

NBC is covering Chavez now. 'NBC has not spoken with any of the women."

Or Chavez....

Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 06:44 PM (Sco7b)

251
"He is my lover, so I must kill him" she said reasonably.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:35 PM (8avO+)

Who has control of the Cat-to-Hooman Translator?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 18, 2026 06:45 PM (y9nCu)

252 How much is it going to cost to teach the animals to read?

Or to translate signs into all of the different animal languages/dialects?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

I called dibs on the governmental program.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 06:45 PM (IBsfd)

253 NBC is covering Chavez now. 'NBC has not spoken with any of the women."

Or Chavez....
Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 06:44 PM (Sco7b)

So have they released the part yet where Trump and him were best buddies ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2026 06:45 PM (VE6XX)

254 We know what she spent some of the money on:

https://t.co/Nlul5Pyh1t

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 18, 2026 06:46 PM (S7WXb)

255 How about squirrel *boris badanov voice,

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 18, 2026 06:47 PM (bXbFr)

256 "He is my lover, so I must kill him" she said reasonably.
Posted by: Oldcat

Somewhere in the distance a dog barked...

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2026 06:48 PM (IBsfd)

257 The total avg yearly cost that Caki drivers pay is just about the same as the national avg.
Why? B red cause the only drive 11000 miles per year less than the 14000 national avg and because they driver newer more fuel efficient cars and EVs getting the best mpg in the nation at 33.5 mpg drivers in montana and Wyoming pay about 200,% more yearly in fuel more miles and less fuel efficiency

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 18, 2026 06:48 PM (W2WDE)

258 WTF did the troll just say ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2026 06:49 PM (VE6XX)

259 Nude quickies

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 18, 2026 06:51 PM (W2Pud)

260 WTF did the troll just say ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2026 06:49 PM (VE6XX)

its shrouded in mystery.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2026 06:51 PM (8avO+)

261 We were watching a practicalengineering video last night about the incredible creation of the LA aqueduct. They started in 1908 and it took five years. Five years in 1908 to build a 233 mile long aqueduct.

From Wikipedia:

"The original project consisted of 24 mi (39 km) of open unlined canal, 37 mi (60 km) of lined open canal, 97 mi (156 km) of covered concrete conduit, 43 mi (69 km) of concrete tunnels, 12.00 mi (19.31 km) steel siphons, 120 mi (190 km) of railroad track, two hydroelectric plants, three cement plants, 170 mi (270 km) of power lines, 240 mi (390 km) of telephone line, 500 mi (800 km) of roads and was later expanded with the construction of the Mono Extension and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct."

Five years.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 18, 2026 06:51 PM (0MjtC)

262 258 WTF did the troll just say ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2026 06:49 PM (VE6XX)

Something about "Aliensshitinmymouth"....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 18, 2026 06:51 PM (dmDsy)

263 249 Meanwhile gas here is $5.89 a gallon..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2026 06:43 PM (VE6XX)

In Windsor Ontario, it was over $6 US a gallon. Converted by AI.

Posted by: Stateless at March 18, 2026 06:51 PM (Sco7b)

264 I guess I’m just retarded, but why not just bridge the road instead and let the critters pass under?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 18, 2026 06:53 PM (IX8iX)

265 Washington state has horrible problems, but even Washington was able to build a bridge like that in under four years and for about $6.2 million. I have driven under it.

https://tinyurl.com/7d39vhyc

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