State announces plans to spend over $30 million on unusual traffic solution for busy highway: ‘There is a huge need’

Oregon has received $33 million in federal grant funding to construct the state’s first wildlife overpass over Interstate 5. The overpass aims to mitigate the growing issue of vehicle-wildlife collisions. Each year, Oregon’s Department of Transportation (ODOT) removes 6,000 deer carcasses from public roadways each year. The wildlife overpass will…..

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