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Roads out east with cattle grates

Started by index, May 21, 2023, 08:17:35 PM

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Cattle grates are very common out west, but I've never seen one in person myself living out east. I only know of a single example near the north end of NC 12, to prevent the wild horses from getting into the residential areas:

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.3946496,-75.8303949,3a,64.4y,11.81h,77.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLUEy-HutYqE93imFH6Kocw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Anybody have other examples of cattle grates out east?
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cbeach40

Practically unheard of in Ontario, only ones I can recall on MTO highways are around the Hwy 69-Hwy 637 interchange.
https://goo.gl/maps/ape72EeyercAYUnG7
https://goo.gl/maps/4T7yin8mChtxRLgQA

If I recall correctly this area was around where an elk repopulation effort was made some years ago, so I'll speculate that is the reason for the unusual installation here.
Of course the elk herd ended up migrating to another area entirely, but still won't hurt for moose here at least.  :-D
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Hot Rod Hootenanny

It's east of the Mississippi River (by 10 miles, at most), so I guess it qualifies as "east."

You can see the grate at the fence line.
Somewhere in the SW corner of Mississippi, from 20 years ago.
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Bitmapped

I want to say that I've seen this a couple places in West Virginia (Monroe and Pendleton Counties come to mind) but I don't have photos and the roads they might have been on are too minor to have GMSV imagery.

ElishaGOtis

US-1 Overseas Highway has a set on Big Pine Key, though this is more for the protection of the endangered Key Deer than cattle. It even has a "Cyclists Dismount"  sign, something I don't see often in Florida.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/TgUofhPAKWZZEVj56?g_st=ic
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capt.ron

When they had the Titan missile silos in operation where I live (Central AR), the roads leading to them had cattle guards right off of the highway.

roadman65

Six Flags in Jackson, NJ used them in their drive through safari at one time, I believe.
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Duke87

You know, I recall musing about where the furthest east cattle guard in the US might be. I would NOT have figured the answer would be east of the Mississippi at all, let alone that there might be a contender that's right on the Atlantic coast in North Carolina.

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Road Hog

Cattle guards work for any hoofed animals (except goats and some sheep), so I might be a little surprised that they aren't more common in certain areas East. They're not recommended for horses either because they could try to cross it and slip a leg between the pipes, which is no bueno.

Katavia

Seen "Wildlife Guards" (or so the warning signs call them) that were recently installed on the two westernmost I-40 interchange ramp sets in NC.
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pderocco

Quote from: Road Hog on May 31, 2023, 01:30:47 AM
Cattle guards work for any hoofed animals (except goats and some sheep), so I might be a little surprised that they aren't more common in certain areas East. They're not recommended for horses either because they could try to cross it and slip a leg between the pipes, which is no bueno.

Here and there (in California) you see painted guards instead of real ones, and at least for cattle they seem to work most of the time. They're not very bright. But they're also not generally eager to "escape" anyway.

index

Quote from: Katavia on June 05, 2023, 09:08:41 AM
Seen "Wildlife Guards" (or so the warning signs call them) that were recently installed on the two westernmost I-40 interchange ramp sets in NC.

It looks like they don't have any fences or any way of stopping animals from actually getting past them. I wonder why.
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sbeaver44

While it is definitely "out east"  I'm not sure if this counts, but within Gettysburg National Military Park, the beginning of Crawford Ave at Wheatfield Road absolutely had them.  I remember them in the mid to late 90s at least.  Street View only goes back to 2017, and they are gone.

HighwayStar

Quote from: pderocco on June 05, 2023, 09:45:54 PM
Quote from: Road Hog on May 31, 2023, 01:30:47 AM
Cattle guards work for any hoofed animals (except goats and some sheep), so I might be a little surprised that they aren't more common in certain areas East. They're not recommended for horses either because they could try to cross it and slip a leg between the pipes, which is no bueno.

Here and there (in California) you see painted guards instead of real ones, and at least for cattle they seem to work most of the time. They're not very bright. But they're also not generally eager to "escape" anyway.

Painted ones suffer from the "smart cow" problem, in that if one member of the herd correctly deduces its not a real cattle guard and crosses, the stupid cows can follow suit
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