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  • How to waste £190,000 pounds on a bridge to far
  • KonaTC
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    One of the benefits of being in the EU as the bureaucrats made the rule that small cute rodents need protecting and then UK bureaucrats gold plate the EU policy.

    One area of waste that is any easy saving adopt the French attitude and ignore stupid EU policy

    CaptJon
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    Nobody bothered its £90m for an 8km stretch of road?

    anagallis_arvensis
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    Some morons on here to be fair, just because the endangered species isnt a cute fluffy panda its not worth protecting?

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    tron
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    TBH I'm really surprised at people's attitude to conservation on a mountain biking forum.

    It's a european protected species, the highest level of protection afforded to animals in the UK. Carry on the way people on here talk, and we'd end up with extinctions on our hands.

    rkk01
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    They're just outside my house – surprised they didn't cost more TBH

    Ohh, and see that £10M / km road build figure – that would allow you to calculate the cost of re-routing the road around the dormice habitat rather than going through it…

    You would have needed at least another 1000m even for a minor route revision. Go north and close to resi (compensation / cumpulsory purchase) Go south and you're higher ground / steeper gradients / more rock excavation / cutting. Other alternative is south of iron age hill fort, must be several km further, otter habitat, prob still dormice…..

    meehaja
    Free Member

    cheaper than trident, and i bet(hope) it'll get used a hell of a lot more, will work properly, wont go on costing the earth (literally) and actually has a purpose?

    IdleJon
    Full Member

    tron – Member
    TBH I'm really surprised at people's attitude to conservation on a mountain biking forum.

    I've always got the impression that most people on here treat the outdoors as a bit of an inconvenience, hence the liking for trail centres.

    Ro5ey
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    But does this bridge actually and more importantly significantly protect/help the mouse population?

    Is there good evidence that this will work or is it just a expensive follie.

    Lifer
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    konabunny
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    Nobody bothered its £90m for an 8km stretch of road?

    Course not – I've got a fast RWD car to drive. Obviously it needs new roads to be driven on.

    Is there good evidence that this will work or is it just a expensive follie.

    Huh – no-one's thought about that one before.

    (You know the environmental impact assessment is a matter of public record, right?)

    IdleJon
    Full Member

    Ro5ey – Member
    But does this bridge actually and more importantly significantly protect/help the mouse population?

    Is there good evidence that this will work or is it just a expensive follie.

    So are you trying to suggest that the bridge was built in an area where there are no dormice? Or that dormice won't use it? I'd hope that the people who built it have more knowledge than the experts on here.

    An expensive folly? It's not exactly a penguin feeding point in Westminster is it? And why don't you put the cost into perspective – you can buy a Ferrari and have some change. That's for 3 bridges to protect an endangered species.

    But again, maybe you'd be happy for dormice to die out completely, and then we can move onto planning the extinction of another British animal.

    tron
    Free Member

    Is there good evidence that this will work or is it just a expensive follie.

    Of course not. Environmental consultancy firms are mostly staffed by GCSE drop outs with a pack of crayolas. Their fees are actually performance based – the more articles in the Daily Mail and quotes from the Taxpayer's Alliance, the more they get paid.

    Mitigation is based on solid scientific evidence and professional judgement. The science answers the question of "Does X mitigation technique work?" and the professional judgement comes in when you actually select the amount and type of mitigation required.

    The level of qualification required to do this sort of work is pretty high. MScs are very common, and PhDs aren't unusual. They don't go in for guesswork, as a) they give a monkeys and b) they can be sued if they cock up.

    PikeBN14
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    The bloke at doormousebridges.com must have thought all his Christmases had come at once!! 😆

    Dave
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    Why am I reminded of this…

    http://www.youtube.comwatch v=OQnd5ilKx2Y

    philconsequence
    Free Member

    The bloke at doormousebridges.com must have thought all his Christmases had come at once!!

    excellent 😀

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Everyone is keen on conservation and protecting endangered species, until they realise that it might actually cost money!

    konabunny
    Free Member

    then we can move onto planning the extinction of another British animal.

    Daily Mail readers perhaps?

    project
    Free Member

    Sadly last night a poor little doormouse from a newly seperated mother,decided he would try to see his biological father, on approaching the new road, and not haveing been to mouse school,he failed to either read or note the new bilingual mouse crossing signs, he decided to cross the new road at road level.

    Thankfully an environmentally conscious moutainbiker saw baby mouse, trying to cross the road, stopped got his large lunch box out and carefully lifted Baby mouse into the new home his lunch box.

    He carried the lunchbox carefuly across the road and opened the box, the little mouse looked up and tweeped a thankyou,the mountainbikers face lit up at the thought of helping a poor little animal,as the little mouse ran off, he was chased by the local scally cat, and eaten, scally cat then meowed a thankyou for the warm takeaway.

    The moral of this story is if you dont educate the baby mice, and keep cuting back on the education budget,then all youll get is fat cats.

    ernie_lynch
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    project – Member

    not haveing been to mouse school…….conscious moutainbiker saw baby mouse…..carefully lifted Baby mouse ……the little mouse looked up……the little mouse ran off

    The moral of this story is if you dont educate the baby mice, and keep cuting back on the education budget,then all youll get is fat cats.

    A dormouse isn't a mouse …… any more than a pineapple is an apple.

    So if there's a moral to this story, then it's educate yourself on the subject – before you post a thread about it 💡

    project
    Free Member

    a mouse and a dormouse are rodents, and both share the name mouse.

    ernie_lynch
    Free Member

    And, a pineapple and an apple are fruits, and both share the name apple.

    Do you always say apple when you mean pineapple ?

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Leave it, ernie.. leave it – it's not worth it…

    ernie_lynch
    Free Member

    🙁

    molgrips
    Free Member

    It's ok.. there's other fish in the pedantic sea 🙂

    IdleJon
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    konabunny – Member

    then we can move onto planning the extinction of another British animal.

    Daily Mail readers perhaps?

    Brain dead already surely?

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