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Mountain lions, mule deer and black bears won a victory Thursday when a regional transportation agency agreed to spend $8.2 million to build three wildlife crossings across a heavily traveled section of North Oracle Road in the Oro Valley area. Starting in 2013, authorities will build two steel and concrete underpasses and an overpass between the Tortolita and Catalina mountains to make it easier for wildlife to cross the highway. A three-mile stretch of Oracle, also known as Arizona 77, in that area will be fenced, to funnel wildlife into the crossings.
The crossings are aimed at maintaining traffic safety and preventing cars from killing wildlife as expected growth nearly doubles the traffic load along Oracle by 2030. They were approved by a 7-0 vote of the Regional Transportation Authority's governing board. read more
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